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adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Love this book so much! I’ve love the movie for years but omg the book is fantastic!
Amazing descriptive narrative! I love the watching of perspectives and the way characters were so unknowingly close to each other!
A mix of medium and fast pace that the movie just doesn’t do justice!
So intense and even scary at times! Just an all round awsome book!
Amazing descriptive narrative! I love the watching of perspectives and the way characters were so unknowingly close to each other!
A mix of medium and fast pace that the movie just doesn’t do justice!
So intense and even scary at times! Just an all round awsome book!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
- Beyond suspenseful and truly terrifying at times. I think I still enjoy the movie a bit more but I love the book nonetheless
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death
Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
funny
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Violence
adventurous
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
Jurassic Park is a great book. I recently got given a copy of the sequel and decided to reread this one first to see if it was as good as I remembered it being. Thankfully, I’m happy to say that it lived up to my memories of reading the novel the first time round.
Fans of the movie will definitely enjoy reading the book - the plot is largely the same with some deviations in how it all plays out. I think the movie does well to keep most of the same beats going but while maintaining a faster pace. It does cut some things out, and I think some of the river sequence would have been really good to see on screen - especially seeing a certain large theropod take to the water and begin swimming….
The only really weak areas of the book for me are with a couple of the characters and with the ending. Mostly the characters are fine - good even - but Lex particularly is quite grating to me. She is a child and therefore is probably acting relatively realistically, but she is quite annoying at times - especially during the computer sequence. Malcolm as well frustrates me a little, but that’s mostly because he has a few extended monologues about Chaos Theory and the dangers of science - in itself fine, but slightly longwinded for my taste in amongst the action and tension. The ending I think is slightly too extended - we’ve had the big resolve and the defeat of the “baddies” and then the story just sort of keeps going. I think it would have been a stronger ending to omit the nest sequence and finish with the defeat of the raptors - this is one of the only things I think the movie does actively better.
Overall, a great read and the gold standard in Paleo-fiction. If you haven’t read it before, do!
Fans of the movie will definitely enjoy reading the book - the plot is largely the same with some deviations in how it all plays out. I think the movie does well to keep most of the same beats going but while maintaining a faster pace. It does cut some things out, and I think some of the river sequence would have been really good to see on screen - especially seeing a certain large theropod take to the water and begin swimming….
The only really weak areas of the book for me are with a couple of the characters and with the ending. Mostly the characters are fine - good even - but Lex particularly is quite grating to me. She is a child and therefore is probably acting relatively realistically, but she is quite annoying at times - especially during the computer sequence. Malcolm as well frustrates me a little, but that’s mostly because he has a few extended monologues about Chaos Theory and the dangers of science - in itself fine, but slightly longwinded for my taste in amongst the action and tension. The ending I think is slightly too extended - we’ve had the big resolve and the defeat of the “baddies” and then the story just sort of keeps going. I think it would have been a stronger ending to omit the nest sequence and finish with the defeat of the raptors - this is one of the only things I think the movie does actively better.
Overall, a great read and the gold standard in Paleo-fiction. If you haven’t read it before, do!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Death
Minor: Child death
adventurous
dark
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood
Moderate: Animal death, Violence
Minor: Sexism, Vomit
adventurous
dark
informative
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:
Yes
✨3.5/5✨
I think the main thing I enjoyed about Jurassic Park, aside from a lot of the tense scenes, is the philosophical nature that it presents. I think the utilization of some characters to present this aspect was a really nice touch for me. That said, it was a little hard to find a lot of the characters likeable, and some feel, for the lack of a better term... lacking in how they were fleshed out.
While it is true, for me, that the book starts out really slow, once the plot thickens, it thickens greatly, and you are in then for a ride.
I think the main thing I enjoyed about Jurassic Park, aside from a lot of the tense scenes, is the philosophical nature that it presents. I think the utilization of some characters to present this aspect was a really nice touch for me. That said, it was a little hard to find a lot of the characters likeable, and some feel, for the lack of a better term... lacking in how they were fleshed out.
While it is true, for me, that the book starts out really slow, once the plot thickens, it thickens greatly, and you are in then for a ride.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Sexism
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death
adventurous
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism
Minor: Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is just enough different from the adapted film to make this book a page-turner.
A little complicated when it comes to explaining chaos theory but if you just accept that its not easy to understand then theres no issue since half the characters dont either.
A little complicated when it comes to explaining chaos theory but if you just accept that its not easy to understand then theres no issue since half the characters dont either.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood
Minor: Abandonment