Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | A Dark, Exciting, and Engaging Techno-Thriller!

Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | Thrilling

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Jurassic Park

	Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Ballantine Books, 1991 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 647 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy....
"Wonderful...Powerful."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

A Dark, Exciting, and Engaging Techno-Thriller!

I saw the film JURASSIC PARK and loved it (who didn't?). Steven Spielberg had once again proved his genious. Later, I decided to read the book by Michael Crichton. I loved it just as much, if not more, than the film.
It was my first Crichton book, and I was very impressed by his talent of weaving science and probability in his mile-a-minute plot lines. The movie plot closely followed that of the book, and in the few places where it differed, I found I preferred the book.
The plot follows a businessman who creates a theme park out of cloned dinosaurs. He invites various paleontologists and scientists to test it out before it opens, but the dinos break loose and wreak havoc. That sounds groan-inducing, but Crichton uses at least 1/4th of the book it establishing the back-up science to make it almost believable.
Highly recommended.

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Thrilling

I didn't think I'd care for this book; I saw the movie when it came out in 1993 and liked it well enough. No big deal for me.

But the book is GINORMOUSLY better than the movie. It is an absolute thriller. You won't be able to put it down.

Surprising SciFi Thriller

I hadn't heard about this book until the first movie was released. My initial reaction was, "it's a horror flick with dinosaurs - no way!" Luckily, I ended up seeing the movie at a dorm party after it was released on DVD. I enjoyed the movie, despite my misgivings and thought, "how bad can the book be?" Turned out that, as is often the case, the book was far superior to the film.

I thought it would be a horror novel, but Jurassic Park is actually a science fiction thriller. A SciFi thriller that made me a loyal fan of Michael Crichton. John Hammond has found a way to recreate living dinosaurs. And he is far less grandfatherly and sentimental than the film version. He's a businessman out to make money, who will let nothing stand in his way. One of the things that makes the book so much better is the emphasis on the science. In the movie viewers are like, "yeah sure, they make dinosaurs, disbelief suspended." In the book, Crichton lays it out with creepy realism, formulas and charts. At some points, it becomes a little too much and I actually skimmed overly some highly technical bits, but overall it adds to the credibility of the story. Crichton also lays out the computer science in more detail, such as the motions sensor tracking, the flaws in a mainframe system, etc. I was drawn into the novel in a way not possible with the movie. The character development is also top notch. Ian becomes more than a loony fringe scientist, and Hammond is much better as a quasi-villain. However, the kids got on my last nerve. They weren't as well developed as the adult characters, too mired in stereotypical "kidness." The little girl's constant whining was really annoying . However, that was the only aspect of the novel that I didn't care for. The dialog was great, the action sequences vivid and the ending more than satisfying.

Overall, this was a tight, fast paced novel. Crichton obviously did his research, making the science very real, but the action and adventure made the story come alive. With the advent of cloning, the book still stands strong today. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a good thriller.

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Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park is one of my favorite books! It has a lot of action and a lot of descriptions. The story is very similar to the ever famous Jurassic Park movie by Stephen Spielberg { sp? sorry } The terror and action the Crichton creates with the dinosaur chases is very thrilling. There are some parts where you think, what just happend? And then you have to reread it again. But all in all it's a very great book and I would recommend that you would read Lost World Jurassic Park and that you watch all three of the Jurassics because their all great!

Go Dinosuars!

Have you ever read a book after the movie and actully liked the book better. It rarely happens but for this read the movie impressed me more. The beginning of the book is very different from the Speilberg blockbuster. It started out with some very good action and suspence but went downhill from that. After Alan Grant gets to a mysterious island filled with man-eating dinosaurs its almost too predictable what will happen, but hey that reason better be why you read the book, to see dinosaurs rip off peoples heads and slice open their stomach. After the dinos escape its a life or death race to get off the island. I definetly would suggest this book to a dino freak but no one else. The settings are hard to picture and leave you confused in the later chapters. The island is a prehistic landscape and is hard to picture since we don't know what it looks like. Another reason a thought it was bad was because it didn't describe the dinos well enough. It would be very helpful if Micheal included pictures of the dinos instead of just telling you it was a pretyhuioptyresasaurous. The only reason I like the book is because is has creature violence, which is my favorite, and it has many action sequences. The end is filled with action and has you guess who rein supreme, the humans or dinosaurs. So over all it had a good story line, hard to understand settings, unpictureable dinos, but a good action twist at the end. I definetly suggest it to sci-fi readers, but anyone else just stay away.

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