Jurassic Park
By: Michael Crichton
My Rating: 5/5 Stars
Genre: SciFi, adult, adventure
Synopsis: An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price.
Until something goes wrong. . . .
In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.
The first section of this review will be spoiler free
Let me preface this by saying this is one of my all time favourite books and I was surprised that it has taken me this long to do a review for it. I am sure many of you are familiar with Spielberg’s big screen adaption to this, and some of you may not even have known that before these dinosaurs were dominating the movie scene, they were masterfully created by Michael Crichton. This book is perfect for science fiction lovers. It combines scientific and believable factual elements, with awe-inspiring and fantastical situations. The characters are clearly defined, and though there is not a large amount of character development in the book , it’s ok because the story is more about the theme park and the situation the characters are facing, than their personal attributes. If you are only familiar with the movie there will be a few surprises, as like with any adaption the screenplay writers certainly took a few liberties. The book is often labeled a techno-thriller, and this description couldn’t be more accurate. The detail Crichton puts into the process of resurrecting these dinosaurs makes you believe this could actually happen. The action sequences and thriller elements had me on the edge of my seat, definitely wanting more.
If you are a fan of the movie and are looking for something similar this is a great read for you. If you aren’t a big fan of the science fiction style world building this book might be too dense for your liking. And most importantly of course, you have to be a fan of dinosaurs!
So I won’t be doing a spoiler section for this review, mostly because since many of you have most likely seen the movie, me rehashing plot points might feel a bit redundant. Secondly I want to keep to few things that are different in the book a surprise!
Which movie do you prefer, Jurassic Park or Jurassic World? Or are you like me and prefer the book?
I like that in the book, the lawyer was actually pretty awesome.
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I saw this movie years ago and have wanted to read the book ever since. Great job on your review 🙂
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Great review, I have been dying too read this book since I heard the films were books first years back. I absolutely love both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films equally, and I heard the books are much more better. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome post.
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I’ve never read the book, but love the movie. Great review.
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I remember reading this when it first came out and can’t believe I did because I am a huge scaredy cat!
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I’ll be honest, I’m terrified of Jurassic Park. My mom tried playing it for me when I was really young and the dinosaurs scared me so much that I couldn’t sleep. Maybe I’ll try to watch the movies again now that I’m older. Also, I had no idea there was a book, so clearly I’ve been shielding myself from everything related to Jurassic Park. Haha. 🙂
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I love going back and reviewing our favorites. Thanks for bringing me back to JP!
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I’ve never read or watched any of the Jurrasic Parks books and movies, but I think I may need to change that after your review. Also. As I was reading your post, the Jurrasic World trailer came on TV. 😂
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It’s obviously meant to be!
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I have yet to read the book, but i loved the original jurassic park movie.
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I enjoyed them all, but prefer Jurrasic Park
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I have read quite a few Crichton books and enjoyed them all enormously. He was an amazing author. I preferred the Jurassic Park book to the film though I did think the film was good. I still need to watch Jurassic World though I have it as part of my DVD box set.
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I was pleasantly surprised by Jurassic World, I thought the third Jurassic Park movie wasn’t very good plot wise anymore so I was sceptical when they made yet another one, but it was very well done!
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I loved the book, and Lost World too, as well as JP and JW movies. LW and JP3 movies, not so much. I realllllyyy want to read Dragon Teeth, but haven’t been able to yet. JP is the only movie I ever saw more than twice in theatre. 9 times!!
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I really want to read Dragon Teeth too!!
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