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A review by oashackelford
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
5.0
John Hammond wants to use science as a way to provided entertainment. in his opinion, it's really the only way to get anything done with science that doesn't come with multiple rounds of red tape. Of course everyone he talks to keeps telling him that his dinosaur park is, "too dangerous" and "will fail immediately". Fortunately, he was never one to let a little negativity stop him from doing exactly as he pleases. Unfortunately, in order to get his investors off of his back he is going to have to take some experts on a a tour of his dinosaur park in order to get approval for things to keep moving forward.
I love the movie Jurassic Park so much, and so I finally decided to read the book. I think the book is so much better than the movie, if only because more people get what they deserve in the book than they do in the movie. I also think that the book did a better job of setting up all the ways in which the park would eventually fail, and it did this by flashing between characters so that the reader had a sense of impending doom that the characters weren't aware that they should be feeling.
I think that the movie was an extremally faithful adaptation of the book, but the book does end up being better in the long run because you get more detail and understanding of what the dinosaurs are, why they are behaving the way that they are behaving, and what can go wrong when humans with a lot of money fall victim to Hubris.
I love the movie Jurassic Park so much, and so I finally decided to read the book. I think the book is so much better than the movie, if only because more people get what they deserve in the book than they do in the movie. I also think that the book did a better job of setting up all the ways in which the park would eventually fail, and it did this by flashing between characters so that the reader had a sense of impending doom that the characters weren't aware that they should be feeling.
I think that the movie was an extremally faithful adaptation of the book, but the book does end up being better in the long run because you get more detail and understanding of what the dinosaurs are, why they are behaving the way that they are behaving, and what can go wrong when humans with a lot of money fall victim to Hubris.