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jurassic park
Jurassic Park
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345370778
ISBN: 0345370775
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 1991-11-13
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 1991-11-13
Studio: Ballantine Books
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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
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Summary: This Will Make You Envy Your Science Teacher
Comment: There is almost no one in America or beyond who has not read this book or seen the movie. Although I loved the movie, the book is far superior. The story contains a lot of scientific details which may intimidate some readers, but as someone with almost no scientific aptitude, I find the story immensely engrossing. The details add an element of credibility, which makes the story more scary. You have a sense that "this could actually happen" as you read, and everything is explained in such a way as to make even the average person understand it. I don't mean to say that it is dumbed down, because it isn't. It's just so interesting that it makes you want to understand.
The dinosaurs are scarier in the book than in the movie. They are also incredibly more complex. Crichton delves into the behavioral patterns and family structures of velociraptors, tyrannosaurus rexes, and other animals we can only see in our dreams. He makes them real, and that makes them terrifying. The book also tells a more intricate story. There are more subtle hints of danger and of dangers still to come.
If anyone out there saw the movie and enjoyed it, but still has not read the book, I highly recommend it. It's very readable, and remains after 15 years at the top 5 of my favorite books. And believe me - it gets better each time you read it.
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Summary: What an amazing novel!
Comment: When I first heard what this novel was about, I thought it would be horrible. I was amazed!
I loved the plot! The characters were amazing, and the plot went so deep that it got me entrenched! I read the whole book in one long sit, and could not bare to put it down!
This was one of the best novels I have ever read, and every novel reader should spend a few hours enjoying one of Michael Crichton's best works!
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Summary: Dino thrill ride
Comment: John Hammond is a billionaire who purchases an island off the coast of Costa Rica and sets about cloning dinosaurs. Hammond's goal is to open the world's greatest, and most expensive, amusement park. When his investors get nervous they demand an inspection, and so a cast is assembled to go to the island that includes Alan Grant, a dinosaur expert, Ian Malcolm, a mathematician, and Donald Genarro, the sleazy attorney. Alas, the group arrives just as things go horribly wrong at the park and learn just how dangerous dinosaurs such as T-Rex and velociraptor can be.
While the book was a major bestseller it's probably fair to say that most people are familiar with Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition) from movie rather than the novel. Since Michael Crichton wrote the screenplay for the film, it won't come as a surprise that the two are fairly consistent. Still, there are differences and most work to give the book a bit more depth. Among the tidbits lost for the movie are a pteradactyl attack, encounters with both raptors and T-Rex, interesting details on the system flaws in the park, etc. So even if you've seen the film, there is definitely new material here that will surprise you.
Jurassic Park is easily one of Crichton's best-written books. It moves along at a strong pace from the beginning and the suspense builds pretty consistently until the climax. While I sometimes find the discussions of the science involved a bit overpowering in Crichton's books, they're mostly held to an appropriate level here.
The only flaw in the book is that Ian Malcolm is used as a none-too-subtle mouthpiece for the author's reservations about technology. It isn't even that I disagreed with most of what he says, it's the sledgehammer approach of making sure that even the most dense reader gets the point that science has become a very bad thing that got old pretty quickly. I found myself starting to skim over Malcolm's dialog more and more as the book progressed.
Jurassic Park is an easy book to recommend. It's exciting, interesting, and suspenseful when it tries to be. I had read it once many years ago, and after Michael Crichton's recent death I was moved to re-read it and see if it was as good as I remembered. Fortunately, it held up very well over the ensuing years.
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Summary: Clever And Suspenseful
Comment: This book combines drama and suspense with science and a certain amount of moralizing. The book's major premise-using the DNA of long extinct species-is clever because it is so believable and thus frightening. The book plays upon the idea that if one tampers with Nature's most sacred mechanisms, there will be a price to pay and dangers that one can neither anticipate nor accomodate. The idea of a Caribbean park featuring such resurrected creatures provides a macabre and riveting fascination. The book and movie have been out for a while but nevertheless, if you haven't read this, it is still a good read.
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Summary: A true classic
Comment: Ok so finally aftering seeing the movies so many times, I finally found a copy of the book in the one of the bedrooms upstairs.
I have to say, the beginning of this book is very drab,
Yadda yadda yadda, let me see some blood.
and after the fun started I couldnt put the book down.
But let me tell you for any of the young readers out there.
It is a goery book.
There is blood on almost every page once they get to Isle Nubar.
But overall it is a great book and I highly recommend it for anyone who has an intrest in sci-fi, paleontology < think that is wrong, or the movies.
Have to admit though... The first movie does in fact differ from the novel so don't expect it to be verbadum. but really what book made movie is?
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