Crichton is great at writing fast paced stories telling us all the horrible things we can (and almost certainly will) do wrong as we rush smash through the barriers of scientific discovery. Jurassic Park is his most popular version of this tale and for good reason. ( )

This review is coming to you from a strange computer at a very strange house: the house I grew up in (I'm house-sitting for the next week and a couple of days.) For some reason, I cannot get wireless to work on my laptop, so I'm using my Mom's desktop (which she admits is a piece of crap.) The only problem I seem to be having is that the keyboard is a little funky - like my fingers are too big to be using it or something. But fear not gentle reader, I WILL prevail! And now, onto the review...

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 20 or so years, you already know the premise of Jurassic Park. To quote one of my favorite lines from the movie: "God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth." Well, there you have it in a nutshell: a wealthy eccentric named John Hammond buys an island in Costa Rica and turns it into Jurassic Park - a living biological preserve for genetically engineered dinosaurs.

The thing you need to know about the book is that it is quite different from the movie on a number of points. I will not spoil it for you here, but suffice it to say that I have seen the movie numerous times, and I never knew what was coming next in the book. It had me reading quickly to get to the end and see how the characters were going to get out of trouble. In my opinion, the book kicks the movie's a**.

Jurassic Park was captivating and completely engrossing from the very first chapter. Michael Crichton sure knew how to create tension and suspense in his novels! I was on the edge of my seat, racing toward the finish line and hoping none of my favorite characters ended up on the dino-diet. It was a fast-paced read and almost impossible for me to put down.

Jurassic Park is simply thrilling - and quite a bit darker than it's movie adaptation. Crichton manages to give the reader all of the scientific details without bogging down the story or giving up even an ounce of the creepy suspense that builds from the first pages. A phenomenal "techno-thriller," Jurassic Park and Michael Crichton deserve every bit of accolade they have received. I am deeply impressed, and will definitely be recommending this book to others.

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Check out my review of Robert T. Bakker's Raptor Red ( )

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In this story the characters are this scientist and a woman who goes with him to park where this old man had made clone of mostly every dinosaur. They think that every thing will be fine, but they dont know that something will go horribly wrong. They had made cloning DNA that would make dinosaurs come to live. one day they went on a tour to see every dinosaur in that park. They went and saw a dinosaur exhibit and they saw nothing and they said what is happening so then they went to the nxt exhibit.They saw the T-REX place and they saw that the people were putting a goat in that. than they see that a dinosaur is sick and they try to help it .They help it and they found out the problem and they find the answer in the dropings.The ride moved back to dinosaur and when they thought that every thing was going to be alright, things went horribly wrong. They went back and the ride stopped back at the T-REX exhibit and they were stuck the ride could not move and the man that stayed back tried to figure out what went wrong.Then he finds that fat guy messed up the computers.Then out of nowhere the T-REX poped out and the people got terefied and then they told each other not to move or get out of the car.One of the people did not listen and ran out of the car to hide in the bathrooms.Then the kid that was in the car flashed a light at the dinosaur and it saw it.The T-REX went charging to the car and he flipped and he crushed it and the kids wrer hurt.Before the T-REX crushed it again the people in the other car tried to find in the car anything that would help them.Then Grant saw a flare thing and he went out the car and lighted it up.The T-REX saw it and started running to it and then they started running.Next thing you know the T-REX through the car to the bottom. The T-REX then left and it was all clear so then they went to the bottom and hid there. they hid there there and left when the T-REX was not to be seen. They lleft and hid they thought that ever

One of my all-time favorite Michael Crichton books, Jurassic Park is so much better than the movie. The book explores the reason why John Hammond created the park, which is so much scarier than in the book. The callous way genetics is used is brought to the forefront in this book, with death as a result. I challenge you to put this down in the middle!! ( )