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Summary: Welcome to Jurassic Park
Review: This is the absolute best depiction of a science fiction novel I have ever read. I like how Mr. Crichton displayed the charachters, gave them backrounds, and then put them into some very scary predicaments. I happemen to of seen the movie first, but i think that the book is much better. It takes you in depth into the world of this theme park/zoo, bringing fiction to reality, or vis-versa. Also, I liked how he ran the plot, Starting out with serenity and the magic of this new idea, then turned it all over to chaos.The best part of the book is when, after the main terminal power cuts out, the T-Rex escapes and Gennaro and muldoon attempt to tranquilize it so that it may be transfered back to its paddock. Muldoon takes the gun, aims, and misses. The T-rex becomes aware of his presence and charges. Muldoon reloads and fires. The T-Rex dosn't stop, so Muldoon tells Gennaro to hot the gas on the jeep and Muldoon jumps in, narrowly avoind the grasp of the Tyranosaurs jaws. This is just a small example of a book full of thrills. Michael Crichton was very good at displaying his charachters. He described them very well, but what made them special was that you could always relate to at least one of them at any given time. For example, the park owner John Hammond stands for every tycoon who has ever wanted something and won't let go for the world, possesed with the idea that he is right. Also, Crichton gave the theme much emphasis. With the book, he displayed the essence of the chaos theory, and how man should never attempt to harness nature, because, as Ian Malcolm says, " Life will find a way".
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Summary: Jurassic Park
Review: ...My favorite book I have read was Jurassic Park. The story was suspenseful and very easy to follow. I thought that the story was hard to believe, but the characters are extremely believable. The area that the story takes place is on an island by Costa Rica. The plot twists and turns in so many directions that it keeps the story exciting and kept me interested in reading the book. I could not put the book down. It was so good I read it in three days. Michael Crichton is the author of the book. He goes into detail in all his books to entertain people. The book is a New York Times best-selling book, and the author is a best-selling author.
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Summary: Buy The Book - Even If You've Seen the Movie
Review: Being that the movie based on this book is so popular, you probably all already know the plot, but here's a quick description. 'Jurassic Park' is Michael Crichton's story about a rich entrepreneur that figures out how to genetically create dinosaurs from DNA recovered from insects trapped in fossilized sap. His plan is to exploit his dinosaur creations in a themepark/zoo creation. In his haste to start making money as soon as possible, important details are overlooked, and things quickly go haywire. I enjoy the technical detail that Crichton puts in each of his books, especially this one. 'Jurassic Park' is filled with science, drama, and most of all adventure. The addition of child characters and their views of the dinosaurs is an excellent touch. The movie was a good adaptation of the book, but don't skip the book just because you've seen the movie.
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Summary: Hitch a ride, steal a mike, listen to a song, don't miss it
Review: 5a.m. I just finished watching the film. What film? THE film. JP of course... Medium to Low quality. I mean when did they decide to miss out half the well- worked out detail? And what about the great literary style that just gets flushed into oblivion with the transferrence of this 'book' into another medium. T.V. is for the uneducated. Read it, then watch the film, then read it again, then understand... Otherwise a great book if it were not for MC's obvious and, frankly, cheap opportunism to shake the 'black hand' of wealth.
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Summary: Exicting and interesting book
Review: When I read the book of Jurassic Park, I had watched the film before. I think the book is better than the movie. It is because you watched the movie you may be forgotten the pictures but if you read the book, you can image the photography of yourself.
The setting is based on an island where a crazy scientist who's too rich for his own good, creates dinosaurs using D.N.A from the blood of fossilized mosquitoes. He visits the paleontologist, mathematician, computer expert to come to his Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park goes wrong, what they should do in this situation. He wrote this part is too exciting and nervous. Crichton is a genius. He educates the reader about the types of dinosaurs. He should find some research about the habits of dinosaurs. Also, the structure is well- organized and realism keeps the readers at the edge of their seats. This ensures that the reading, as well as being enjoyable, provides a continual learning for the readers. I learn so many vocabularies on it. Some difficult words and phrases in this book are important for understanding the story. Some of these words are explained in the back page of the story; some are shown in the pictures. So I think the readers can easy to understand the story. I think the story is interesting and satisfying. I would like to introduce this book to my friends.
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Summary: A modern sci-fi classic
Review: This is one of the best books I ever read. My first taste of it was about two months after the movie came out. While the movie is quite an achievement, the book is far better. The actions scenes are nonstop and the science in the book is astonishing. The nature of each character is much deeping than the movie, expecially Ian Malcolm. If you thought the T-Rex scene was great in the movie, there are far greater ones in the book, including a chase in the jungle river. Crichton's no-nonsense style grabs you in the first page and never let you go. A must read for sci-fi fans.
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Summary: This book is awesome.
Review: Jurassic Park-an amusement park on an island of the coast of Costa Rica- is inhabited by dinosaurs. This book is much better than the movie based on it. It is more detailed, more exciting and way cooler. I liked the movie, but I thought the book was way better. If you like the movie, you will definately like the book.
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Summary: A provocative tale.
Review: Jurassic Park is and always will be my (arguably) favorite novel of all time. Crichton is a genius. He educates the reader while giving them top of the notch, edge of your seat thrills. Jurassic Park is about a genetic experiment, a genetic experiment to re-create dinosaurs is underway. He invites a mathemetician, a paleontologist and a paleobotinist to see his wonderful park..._ Until something goes wrong. Everything goes dead, and the man who is supposed to run the computer program is missing. The phones are out and so are the electrical fences. This novel is so creative, and mesmerizing it has to be on my top 10 favrite book list. Jurassic Park sometimes makes you at some points not want to put it down at some points. You have to see what happens next. There is also alot of scientific and biogenetics talk, it will make any science fiction fan scream in enjoyment. Crichton is my favorite author. The chracters are extremely likeable some lovable. (my personal fav. is Tim) Mike Crichton is a genuis in literary works and this novel proves that.
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Summary: You know the story...
Review: ...unless you were living under a rock in the mid-nineties. Spielberg may have done a great--heck, terrific--job on the silver screen, but even his movie (Sam Neil, Jeff Goldbloom, Laura Dern, Wayne Knight, the best of the best) can't compare to the original...the novel. Isla Nublar. Isolated off the coast of Costa Rico. Tropical, mountenous, surrounded by choppy cliffs and deadly seas. Oh, yeah, and it's home to InGen's dinosaur-cloning facility. A theme park...complete with rides, adventure, thrills, and dinosaurs. These are REAL dinosaurs, mind you. Created from DNA located in amber. All at the request of the eccentric John Hammond. Hammond's old, and he wants one last thrill in his life. He wants to see children go crazy over the dinosaurs...and he will stop at nothing to meet his goals. Lewis Dodgson is Hammond's rival in the genetric research business. Dodgson doesn't like Hammond's sucess...and so he inserts Dennis Nedry into the personell. Nedry's mission: get as many embryoes as you can and get them off the island. Enter Grant and Ellie, a paleontologist and paleobotonist, respectively, who have a close relationship both on and off the field. They are summonded by Hammond to take a tour of the island, see if it is "authentic" enough. They agree (albiet with a little money incentive, they are only human afterall) and are flown to the island. They are not alone on the tour: with them are Ian Malcom, mathmetician and chaos theory extrordinaire; Donald Genero, the lawyer; and Lex and Tim, Hammond's grandchildren. The tour goes disastrously wrong, as a hurricane hits and Nedry makes his move, shutting the park's power off. The electrical fences once keeping the dinosaurs in their confines become nothing more than annoying pieces of string. And after a suspensful and tragic attack, Alan and the kids become seperated from the rest...and lost on the island. If you watched the movie just for the dinosaurs, and not for the characters, you can still read this book. It features a wider range of beasts, all of them scarrier and truer-to-life than Spielberg's monsters. If you don't want that--or not JUST that--then you can read the novel for its wide arange of realistic characters. These people are as three-deminsional as you can get in a book. Michael Chrichton hit it big with "Jurassic Park." We're talking about the book that inspired the movie that made "velociraptor" a house-hold name. This book is pure gold; I have read many, many books, and I will honestly say that this novel is at number 8 on my top-ten list. That's pretty darn good. Read this novel; how can you not resist?
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Summary: Realistic and satisfying science fiction!
Review: Michael Cricheon is one of the rare writers who can provide ultra realism in his science fiction without sacrificing the story or losing the reader in the science. He's really raised the standard of science fiction. Few writers compare to him and Jurassic Park is one of his best novels. This is the story of the humans, not the dinosaurs, and it's realistic, well thought out and satisfying.
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