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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

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"Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way."

This is a classic for a reason! The writing is a great example of showing not telling. Several complex concepts are thrown around and explained, rather than treating the reader like an idiot. 
 I wasn't a fan of how repetitive the story was. They would encounter a dino, escape the dino, talk for a bit, then encounter a dino. Rinse and repeat.
  Otherwise, most of the characters were well written, even though there are a lot of them. The world building was incredible, and the deaths weren't overly gory. 

"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."

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I now get it when people rant about how a book was better than its movie. Jurassic Park means so much to me and I’m so happy I actually liked the book. It was so dark and gruesome and I hated everyone but the dinosaurs. My favorite thing was imagining Rexy sleeping leaning up against a tree by the river. Freaking cutie. 

4.5 because in a book about dinosaurs there sure was a lot of misogyny and fat shaming.

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