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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780345370778 ISBN: 0345370775 Label: Ballantine Books Manufacturer: Ballantine Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 13, 1991 Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: November 13, 1991 Studio: Ballantine Books Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while still maintaining Crichton's trademark thrills-'n'-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes Product Description: An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy.... "Wonderful...Powerful." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This Will Make You Envy Your Science TeacherThere is almost no one in America or beyond who has not read this book or seen the movie. Although I loved the movie, the book is far superior. The story contains a lot of scientific details which may intimidate some readers, but as someone with almost no scientific aptitude, I find the story immensely engrossing. The details add an element of credibility, which makes the story more scary. You have a sense that "this could actually happen" as you read, and everything is explained in such a way as ... Read More Rating: - What an amazing novel!When I first heard what this novel was about, I thought it would be horrible. I was amazed! I loved the plot! The characters were amazing, and the plot went so deep that it got me entrenched! I read the whole book in one long sit, and could not bare to put it down! This was one of the best novels I have ever read, and every novel reader should spend a few hours enjoying one of Michael Crichton's best works! Rating:  - Dino thrill rideJohn Hammond is a billionaire who purchases an island off the coast of Costa Rica and sets about cloning dinosaurs. Hammond's goal is to open the world's greatest, and most expensive, amusement park. When his investors get nervous they demand an inspection, and so a cast is assembled to go to the island that includes Alan Grant, a dinosaur expert, Ian Malcolm, a mathematician, and Donald Genarro, the sleazy attorney. Alas, the group arrives just as things go horribly wrong at the park and learn ... Read More Rating: - Clever And SuspensefulThis book combines drama and suspense with science and a certain amount of moralizing. The book's major premise-using the DNA of long extinct species-is clever because it is so believable and thus frightening. The book plays upon the idea that if one tampers with Nature's most sacred mechanisms, there will be a price to pay and dangers that one can neither anticipate nor accomodate. The idea of a Caribbean park featuring such resurrected creatures provides a macabre and riveting fascination. The book ... Read More Rating: - A true classicOk so finally aftering seeing the movies so many times, I finally found a copy of the book in the one of the bedrooms upstairs. I have to say, the beginning of this book is very drab, Yadda yadda yadda, let me see some blood. and after the fun started I couldnt put the book down. But let me tell you for any of the young readers out there. It is a goery book. There is blood on almost every page once they get to Isle Nubar. But overall ... Read More |
