It may not be the same level as some of the other great horror authors out there, I think Crichton does a really good job creating a sense of reality in this book that you forget that this is all fiction. I felt so much suspense in the scenes with the velocirators because of their intelligence and the idea of fighting an animal that knows how to open doors just puts you on the edge of your seat. Bodies being ripped apart, people hiding in fear of the various dinosaurs hunting them down. There’s a real horror aspect to the story. There’s so much you can unpack with that alone and I feel like Crichton tries to in the space of 450 pages. I mean, the idea of dinosaurs roaming the Earth millions of years after they went extinct is exciting. I could only imagine what people thought about this book when they picked it up. You get a better sense of the entire story, the world, the emotional depth, and the characters when you consider both together working to create a much more complete story. If anything, Jurassic Park should be judged on both its iterations rather than the two parts. Where the book fails, the movie makes up for and where the movie lacks, the book makes up for. And what I came away with is that both the movie and book complement each other. While I may be a reader reading the book well after watching the movie(s), I set aside what I already knew about the story and focused on the book. If I were me, but in 1990 and I picked up this book to review on my blog (or not blog, since blogs didn’t exist in 1990…I don’t think), what would I have thought? Throughout my reading of Jurassic Park, I tried to imagine myself back in 1990 when this book first came out. In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.įind it on Amazon | Find it on My thoughts Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them-for a price. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true.

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Jurassic park by michael crichton