Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

241 reviews

mar's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous 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: Yes

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why do we bash the dinosaurs for killing people but we never question if the people had bad vibes? or if they were just unpleasant to be around????????

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Car accident

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Fatphobia, Sexism

laurenleigh's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Read this for the PopSugar 2021 challenge as my “90’s bestseller!” For the most part, it was totally fun and exciting. Even having seen the movie, knowing what’s going to happen, this was enjoyable. I mean, everyone who read this book probably knew what was going to happen anyway. A remote island full of velociraptors and a T-Rex? Where everyone keeps saying it’s 100% safe and under control? What could go wrong?? What I didn’t love, of course, was the majorly white straight male cast with the token minority (who doesn’t survive) and the inherent sexism. One female character only, and one of her main plot points is that she wears shorts! Wow! Also holy cow the little girl Lex was ridiculously annoying in the book. I don’t remember her being so insufferable in the movie. At times it felt like this was written by a frustrated adolescent conputer geek boy who hates his sister, lol. What I did enjoy most here was somewhat lost in the movie: the discussion of scientific progress in our modern world, including its limits and drawbacks. It’s certainly a theme in the movie, but the book gets to spend more time on this topic. I really enjoyed Jeff Goldblum’s–I mean, Ian Malcom’s discussion of chaos theory especially.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexism

inkfingers's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood

Moderate: Cursing

doomluz's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident

Minor: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Sexism

talislibrary's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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I mean, dinosaurs and Ian Malcolm. What's not to love?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death

nocturnalbookworm's review against another edition

5.0

dark informative tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexism

Minor: Body shaming, Medical content, Alcohol

_hex_libris's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous inspiring tense fast-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death

Minor: Fatphobia

dsaiz's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous informative fast-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming

Minor: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Racism, Dementia, Grief

emakay's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous tense medium-paced

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Vomit

aragreenwood's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Violence, Medical trauma

Minor: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders

lots of cursing. i dont think f though. there is stuff like s 12 time in a row, although i do suppose that a person used to cursing would be saying things like that if they were facing the unavoidable, bloody death of themselves or another person.