Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

32 reviews

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.

stinkylou's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, and Child death

the_cheerful_necromancer's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

Partially ported over from my now-abandoned Goodreads:
Listen. This one is a classic for a reason and you should give it a go. It might not be your thing, but if it is, it'll blow your socks off (as it did mine) with its themes, messages, and of course the DINOSAURS. Seriously. Well-thought-out exploration of the dangers of marketisation, the ethical implications of genetic manipulation, AND DINOSAURS. What's not to like? I love a good dinosaur, that's for sure. Can you tell I like this book? You might like it too. Check it out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Medical content

A lot of people get killed by dinosaurs in this book. Some of it is very VERY graphic, even described via POV at one point. Seriously, the book is quite a bit gorier than the movie. There's also several depictions of medical treatment as a result of the aformentioned dinosaur violence, and some of that is pretty unpleasant too. This book is pretty close to a full-on horror book.

montybonty's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense medium-paced

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

3.75

If you're going into this book expecting a play by play of the movie, you're in for quite a surprise. Maybe that's why this book was a bit of a tough read for me since I knew it was different from the film but...wow.

The fact just about everybody dies before they explode the island- I'll be honest, I was not expecting that whatsoever

Overall, it was a good read. Incredibly tense and had me on the edge of my seat multiple times. I'll be honest though, I 100% could have done without Lex's character in this book. Crichton really captured the spirit of an annoying child because I was ready to strangle her at so many points. Aside from that, solid sci-fi read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Car accident, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Excrement, and Animal cruelty

ginbat's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this book as much as I did, especially since I had already seen the movie. But it was fun to read, a page-turner, and unique structurally. Sometimes it felt like there was too much of one person (usually Malcolm) just talking for way too long. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Child death, Medical content, and Car accident

about the triggers:

the dinosaurs gruesomely kill and eat lots of people

pizzaisjesus98's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Stalking, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Misogyny, Racism, Classism, Rape, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Cursing, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

perthalus's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

Velociraptors are fucking terrifying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cursing, Blood, Car accident, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Fatphobia, Gun violence, and Body horror

Minor: Colonisation and Sexism

teaxmillions's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Minor: Medical content

iono's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Blood, Gore, and Medical content

suneaters's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The OG! I really enjoyed this book, perhaps even more so than the movie. The characters are great and even with some idea of what would happen and who would survive, I was still enthralled. I loved the cold opening and how all the pieces came together to show that a dinosaur was out and about attacking kids. I appreciated that the dinosaurs act like actual animals and not movie monsters like they have in some of the latest of this franchises movie entries (wasn’t Jurassic World just awful? Not even a cute kid and cool-looking dinos could save that flick). I was so interested in the idea that Timmy is the older one in the book. Hammond is also much more despicable here, but it really ramps up in his final perspective chapter; though

his death felt very contrived, I won’t say it bothered me much. Lex and Tim in the movie was clearly just Tim split in half, which was wise since Lex in the novel would annoy moviegoers. The movie lawyer is clearly Ed Regis without much Gennaro at all. Shame we didn’t get baby Rexy in the film or the velociraptor nest or the deal with the juvenile velociraptors on the ship. There’s a lot that was lost. The hunter survives, Malcolm dies, the lawyer lives, and there’s a lot of interesting dynamics between the characters.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Fatphobia, Medical content, and Sexism