Author: Michael Crichton
Publisher: Arrow Books
Publication Date: 1991
Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Sci-fi
Summary:
John Hammond, a mad, eccentric billionaire, has done the impossible and brought history back to life on a remote island far off of the coast of Costa Rica. He calls it, Jurassic Park.
But his dream is riddled with flaws that, in an unfortunate and terrifying sequence of events, prove that man cannot play God and recreate nature and history.
Review:
I cannot rave about this book enough! It may be quite old and not well known (lets face it, who knew that Jurassic Park was a book before it was a film?) but I could not put this book down and finished it in four days!
Apart from the Harry Potter series, I have not felt so gripped and immersed by a book in a long time! I cannot exactly put my finger on why the plot is so thrilling. I think it is to do with the mix of life threatening danger, like the terrifying tyrannosaurus and velociraptors, and the scientific explanation.
So why would you read the book when you can just watch the film? Well, the book is immensely more detailed in the genetics and reasoning behind how the dinosaurs were recreated whereas the film just brushes over it and leaves unanswered questions. The same is with how a supposed colony of female dinosaurs are able to breed - the book explains this perfectly with a totally logical explanation that could be plausible.
Lets face it though, you probably could not recreate dinosaurs from scratch through the method described by Crichton in the book but it does make you think...
I also liked the foreboding through the constant references to the Chaos Theory. If you watched the film, this keeps you on the edge of your seat as you are constantly wondering when everything is going to go crazy!
Rating: 10/10. I bet you cannot read it without imagining Sam Neill as Dr Grant...
You can buy Jurassic Park from Amazon here.
Summary:
John Hammond, a mad, eccentric billionaire, has done the impossible and brought history back to life on a remote island far off of the coast of Costa Rica. He calls it, Jurassic Park.
But his dream is riddled with flaws that, in an unfortunate and terrifying sequence of events, prove that man cannot play God and recreate nature and history.
Review:
I cannot rave about this book enough! It may be quite old and not well known (lets face it, who knew that Jurassic Park was a book before it was a film?) but I could not put this book down and finished it in four days!
Apart from the Harry Potter series, I have not felt so gripped and immersed by a book in a long time! I cannot exactly put my finger on why the plot is so thrilling. I think it is to do with the mix of life threatening danger, like the terrifying tyrannosaurus and velociraptors, and the scientific explanation.
So why would you read the book when you can just watch the film? Well, the book is immensely more detailed in the genetics and reasoning behind how the dinosaurs were recreated whereas the film just brushes over it and leaves unanswered questions. The same is with how a supposed colony of female dinosaurs are able to breed - the book explains this perfectly with a totally logical explanation that could be plausible.
Lets face it though, you probably could not recreate dinosaurs from scratch through the method described by Crichton in the book but it does make you think...
I also liked the foreboding through the constant references to the Chaos Theory. If you watched the film, this keeps you on the edge of your seat as you are constantly wondering when everything is going to go crazy!
Rating: 10/10. I bet you cannot read it without imagining Sam Neill as Dr Grant...
You can buy Jurassic Park from Amazon here.
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