Reviews with content warning for Animal death - Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

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bellestallard's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.5

would’ve been 5 but lex is so annoying

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vi_holmes's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

If you love the movie but wished it was longer, scarier, and that the attacks/deaths were more brutal, read the book!

I'd heard that it would be scarier, but I had no idea what I was in for finally picking up the book. I caught myself holding my breath during several scenes and stayed up until my vision got blurry because things just kept happening and I didn't want to put it down.

I only have a couple complaints. Mostly that the first 100 or so pages were filled with so much boring bs. I was here for science, dinos, and horror, I did not care to read all the lawyer bs with throw away characters that could have been discussed later in small paragraphs. Nor the times the action was broken up for Hammond and Wu to have the same argument again and again. I will tell you right now, I started skipping those in the last 150 ish pages and the reading experience vastly improved.

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clichemarker's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.75

"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.