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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey 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
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Editorial 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
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - love MIKE CRICHTON , but the film was actually better
got to join the chorus of folks who are making the unusual assertion that the film is better . i read this in my mid twenties and thought it read like a mediocre screenplay . i was not surprised to see it was made into a film some years later . great idea and stuff , but it is that rare book i felt the film was far better than . many years later , after the release of the second motion picture , my brother told me he'd read the sequel and felt it was a better read than the original book as well (in ... Read More
Rating:  - Thrilling
I didn't think I'd care for this book; I saw the movie when it came out in 1993 and liked it well enough. No big deal for me.
But the book is GINORMOUSLY better than the movie. It is an absolute thriller. You won't be able to put it down.
Rating:  - Surprising SciFi Thriller
I hadn't heard about this book until the first movie was released. My initial reaction was, "it's a horror flick with dinosaurs - no way!" Luckily, I ended up seeing the movie at a dorm party after it was released on DVD. I enjoyed the movie, despite my misgivings and thought, "how bad can the book be?" Turned out that, as is often the case, the book was far superior to the film.
I thought it would be a horror novel, but Jurassic Park is actually a science fiction thriller. A SciFi ... Read More
Rating: - A Dark, Exciting, and Engaging Techno-Thriller!
I saw the film JURASSIC PARK and loved it (who didn't?). Steven Spielberg had once again proved his genious. Later, I decided to read the book by Michael Crichton. I loved it just as much, if not more, than the film.
It was my first Crichton book, and I was very impressed by his talent of weaving science and probability in his mile-a-minute plot lines. The movie plot closely followed that of the book, and in the few places where it differed, I found I preferred the book.
The plot follows ... Read More
Rating: - John's Jurassic Park Review
In 1989 Isla Nubar (an island off the coast of Costa Rica) was purchased to house dinosaurs in an attraction park which sounds like a good idea to me. This conclusion is determined with some over sight though. What if there was catastrophic system failure? What if some of the dinosaurs were extremely dangerous and much smarter than expected? These problems are adressed in Jurassic Park a technical in depth look at what an incredibly wealthy man who loves dinosaurs would do in order to bring them back ... Read More
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