Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

144 reviews

thomasdj's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Gun violence

hflh's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No

3.5

Some frustrating inconsistencies for me, but a solid book. Straightforward, exciting, and sometimes gruesome. Would read again. 

Some readers will be turned off by scientific rambling on topics from ecology to computer science; printed graphs of computer screens and lines of code; and several cautionary, moralizing monologues about scientific progress. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Gore, and Violence

Minor: Fatphobia, Racism, Alcohol, Sexism, and Vomit

breamfish1138's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Ahh, sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension (that taught me more about science and maths than several years of GCSE study)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Violence, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Animal death, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Cursing and Alcohol

Absolutely one of the most hard-core, bloody, traumatising books I've read in ages. Don't let Spielberg fool you. Here's some examples:

A man gets blinded by acid, disembowled and has his head eaten by a Dilophosaurus

Multiple people get horrifically mutilated and killed by raptors

Actual infant consumption

So yeah don't say I didn't warn you lol.

egwilk28's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This book carries the voice of an over educated, pretentious, misogynist. The type of white man who is educated and uses it just to be a little bitch about it not to actually make any positive change in the world. The science is neat in parts, but definitely an unreliable narrative. Don’t read this book to be honest the obnoxious objectification and reduction of the 2.5 women in the book isn’t worth it. I don’t care if its a “classic” it actually just reads like another book written by a shitty white man in the 80s. If I wanted to read a genetic research ethics scifi book I’d just read Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake because at least it’s fucked up in a thoughtful way.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Racism and Sexual harassment

kaylasbewks's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

cawpile ,, 9.14

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Fatphobia and Sexism

aliciagriggs's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

5.0

Gripping and suspenseful, I found myself whizzing through this book. I am a huge fan of the Jurassic Park movie, and was surprised (though I shouldn't have been) by how different the book was!
Update: increased to 5-stars because I was determined to judge on its own merit, not on the film. It's a great book!
The style of writing, now I've read it a second time, reminds me of Goosebumps...but a lot more gruesome, of course.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Blood

rosieholmes99's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is my all time favourite book! although it has its flaws I find myself repeatedly coming back to it regardless of my mood. I find it’s perfect to get me out of a reading slump. It has a good amount of science integral to the storyline that makes recreating dinosaurs believable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty

mahmabaer's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Death, and Torture

Moderate: Medical trauma, Child death, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Vomit

This is not a children's book. But it's an excellent and well written story.

modacephalopoda's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Death

Minor: Animal death

nadalien's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Death, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail