Jurassic Park

E book? Come on!

I read this when I was a kid, I remember how fantastic it was, and I'd really like to buy the two books, Jurassic Park and Lost World, for my nook.

Hellooooo! Why is JP not available on ebook?????? Please?

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Scott Creger a 17 year old student from Hudson MI

This is a truly great work of writing from a truly great author. I read it for the first time when I was 10 and ever since then I've read it about 20 times. Along with his other works.

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This Book Was Great

This book was a great read. It was exciting, thrilling and non-stop good time. I nearly screamed when i got to the waterfall scene. Made me cry like a baby! It's Micheal Crighton at his best. Can't wait to read 'Time Line', But my FATHER is being slow with it...Darn parents.

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Review

Michael Crichton presents a techno-thriller that, although it may be matched by others of its genre, the originality of the story sets it apart from others. Not to be missed.

VERY Different from Movie

Not a bad book. Not a great book. Good in the beginning and middle but feels like it drags a bit towards the end. I would recommend it especially if you like the movie but don't expect them to hold any more similarities other than a "dinosaur-infested-island".

Thriller With Teeth

On a foggy, Caribbean island, scientists have ushered in the rebirth of dinosaurs. Now, dinosaurs roam the face of the Earth, but is this, mankind's greatest breakthrough or its worst nightmare? In a single phrase, Jurassic Park can be described as a thriller with dinosaurs, but it's so much more. Michael Crichton does an excellent job of forging a fast-paced, suspenseful plot with teeth.

While the novel is an essence of science fiction, Jurassic Park brings back the childhood excitement of dinosaurs. The novel lashes out and grasps our imagination, all while morphing it into a fear of the unknown. We can only read, as we ricochet down this dinosaur rollercoaster, leaving us wanting more. Filled with facts, action, and dinosaurs, Jurassic Park is a necessary read for any teen.

The novel also sports a wide spectrum of characters. Through them, Crichton weaves his message on the dangers of science into his masterpiece. Ian Malcolm, a character from the book, is Crichton's mouth that laments science and makes us ask the big question, "Is humanity as superior as we think it is?" The novel gives a great philosophical standpoint accented with suspense, resulting in a great read.

Jurassic Park has sold millions of copies worldwide and there's a reason. Readers find themselves enthralled in Crichton's web and can’t get enough. Crichton expands and builds upon on his experience and sci-fi thrillers, as he adds Jurassic Park to his Congo and Andromeda Strain.

In my personal experience with the book, I found myself turning page after page, with excitement and suspense. I managed to read the whole novel in the course of a week, proving that Jurassic Park is definitely a book you can easily pick up, but hard to put down.

I strongly recommend this book to the scientists and the scientists-to-be in your lives. With such a unique setting and thought-provoking plot, Jurassic Park is the best dinosaur novel ever written.

An Amazing must read

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton was a great sci-fi thriller. I thought that incorporating cloning, dinosaurs, and realistic situations made Crichton's book a page turner. I've read this book quite a bit of times throughout the years and find it still very interesting to read. Once I start reading it's almost impossible for me to put it down. I especially liked the part when Muldoon took down the T-Rex in the aviary. I think that Jurassic Park creates an immense amount of suspense for the reader to keep reading to find out what happens next. Although some people say that, "All of his facts don't line up," or, "This is not realistic at all because who can recreate and clone real dinosaurs," this should be enjoyed as a science fiction thriller because it is what it is. Crichton writes his book based on his science and medical background that creates this realistic feeling of the book. I ultimately think that this is a must read book no matter what other people say. Michael Crichton was an amazing sci-fi author that created fantasy worlds of dinosaurs with other techno-thriller themes that made Jurassic realistic because cloning dinosaurs could really happen in this day and age.

One of his best

This book was one of his best though many of his others are very good as well. Right from the start I remember this book grabbing my attention though this part wasn't in the movie until the second one came out. I thought that was disappointing but thats how Spielberg is sometimes. Maybe it was too gory but look at what Spielberg did with Jaws.
Jurassic is one of those books you need to read if you never read any of the author's other books. It made me a believer and Crichton is now one of my favorite authors. He will be missed.

Read it!!!! YOU MUST!

The book keeps people in non-stop suspense and creates a vast amount of imagery in the readers head and also makes a reader ask the big question "what if". I pictured people running from a Tyrannosaur and Velociraptors in a jungle and I could hear the blood-curdling screams of terrified humans as they were being hunted by raw nature. This book is NOT recommended for creationists for they might try to argue with EVERY aspect of the book BUT it's a great book and I highly recommend it.

Must Read!!!!!!!!!

In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton has yet again succeeded in writing an amazing and thrilling story. This novel is one of the most thrilling novels of its age because of its high level of suspense. Crichton is able to successfully snatch the reader into this world of fear through the third-person narration and descriptive writing that allows the reader to experience every ounce of fear that the characters in the book are feeling.

Jurassic Park tells the tale of the investigation of the newest invention of the InGen Corporation, a zoo/theme park venture were the main attraction is real live genetically engineered dinosaurs. Since this new park's attraction is such a liability, John Hammond (the CEO of InGen) is forced to have the park investigated by a couple of professionals. But during the maiden tour of this island, something goes wrong that drags the people on the island into a horror filled weekend caused by animals that have been extinct for 60 million years.

While this is one of the best thriller novels of its age, Jurassic Park is flawed by graphs and language that are shown in the book that not everybody would understand. Also, there are some parts of the book that it seems the characters are preaching to you about the types if ethical beliefs that you should have. But despite the pointless graphs, the hard to understand genetics lingo, and the apparent sermons that occur at points in the book, this is still one of the best thriller novels of the age that will keep you on the edge of your seat from page 1 to 399.

Amazing! Entertaining!

I absolutely enjoyed this book. The only thing I didn't like about it was some of the language; the swearing kind of bothered me. Other than that, there's nothing wrong with this book in my eyes. It's wonderful! From the very begining, and I mean from the very first chapter, you're waiting to see how events carry out and how things go wrong. There is no question that things won't.

Michael Crichton did an amazing job of instilling tension all throughout your body at particular intervals in the book. I won't divulge the actual happenings, but the chapter named Aviary was amazing! It was short but it brought so much tension into the book that I think the book lacked until that point. Up until then, Crichton kept you hooked with mostly curiousity but it wasn't the type that had you going just tell me already! It was more like, okay I want to see how they get out of this. What else is going to happen to Grant and the kids? Or Muldoon? Aviary was a short chapter but I count that as one of its strengths. It didn't drag along; it was on target and didn't have the characters. Part of me wished the chapter had been longer, but that's only because it gave me so much tension. I can literally remember how my whole body was tense. If the chapter had been any longer, the tension would have been lost.

Throughout the book you have the T-Rex popping up. Just when you think it's gone, it comes back to complicate matters. In my opinion, it was used to perfection. All while you read this book though, even before the power goes out, the moment you actually read about the adult Velociraptors, you get the feeling that they're the true menace. And they were. But Crichton waited until the end of the book to use them. He gave you little tastes of them that complicated matters but the characters didn't have to go head to head with them until the end. In my opinion, that too was smart and they were used perfectly.

About halfway through the book, our cast of characters have power problems. It's not long before they're fixed, or so we think. When we have about a hundred or so pages left we find that all is not well with the power. This, I think, is the truly major climax of the story. Everything else was building up to these last pages, getting ready to spot-light the Velociraptors.

So happy I read before movie

I think I am one of few who read book before seeing movie. I did not see the movie for a long time after reading book so it was really good. I loved this book so much and have read so many times again. I like Lost World too but, not so much as the first one but still good.

From the movie to the book

I'm twenty years old and thus for me I first knew Jurassic Park as a movie. As in most cases the book proceeds its theatrical re-make. The book makes everything that happens feel so real and likely that it's hard to wonder if there really is an island somewhere where dinosaurs roam.

This is how you play god.

Jurassic Park is a novel by Michael Crichton. It is about allen Grant as he gets invited to a job studying real live dinosaurs. While on a tour of the island, the power goes out and Allen is lost on the island with the owners grand children. This book is slow in the beginning but rapidly speeds up. I recomend this book to people who like science fiction.

Different from the movie, maybe better

After a great deal of time from watching the movie as a child, I finally decided to read the book. Well I was impressed. The descriptions and imagery provided by Crichton was amazing. Once you let go of trying to follow it as the movie portrays, you realize you are reading a great book. At least for me, it was one of the more recent books you just don't want to put down. With interest it math modeling and computers this was definitely a better way to grasp the plot than the movie.

A park full of living fossils

Genetic engineering can seem quite frightening when you read about what scientists have discovered and what they can do, i.e., cloning. This book takes those fears and gives them life. It is chock full of very interesting scientific information. Out of all the creatures ever to have lived, why would someone think it would be alright to create dinosaurs and open a park where any one can come and see them?

The writing is so well done, I found it hard to put the book down. Well, except for the time I was sitting alone outside reading a very intense part where the T-Rex is trying to push through tree tops to get at them. The tree behind me started shaking, so I screamed, threw the book and ran only to find it was a road runner coming down the hillside behind me. It took me a couple of hours to find my book. If you like intense stories, then this is one to read.

Proof that dinosaurs are still awesome

I grew up a huge dinosaur fan, so naturally my favorite movie as a kid was Jurassic Park. It still is, actually. Eventually, I decided that I should read the novel, for it was very successful and I had heard good things about it. Reading Michael Crichton as a ten-year-old was kind of difficult, but he does have a way of making all the scientific stuff understood in the end. I loved this book from the first time I read it. What's not to love? It's extremely thrilling, scary, violent, and offers some great thought and debate, covering topics such as genetic engineering and ethics in science. Crichton has been criticized for his development of characters, but he created a good one here in Ian Malcolm, the most interesting human character. But in the end, it's all about the dinosaurs, who are both terrifying and awe-inspiring. It's kind of like a modern-day Frankenstein, and is actually very interesting to even talk about. This is science fiction at it's best, and that's why it's still my favorite book after at least three or four readings.

I liked this book

I really liked this book since it was a lot like the movie, and the movie is one of my favorites. It was a really exciting book with a lot of action happening. The book was about a park opening up, and it was going to show dinosaurs. Some people thought the park had issues so they went there to shut it down if it had problems. It ends up turning out to be an utter disaster. The park loses power and things go crazy. I really do not have any complaints about this book it was pretty awesome besides the face that it took a little bit to get started. If you like action packed books and thrilling books then you need to read this one or even if you like the movie! The point of this book was probably to entertain or that you shouldn't try to play God, and bring things back from the past.

Doesn't measure up to the movie but still good.

Michael Crichton delivers another science related thriller this time with DNA and gentics as the main theme. The ideas presented here are still relevant over twenty years later. The movie was much more awe-inspiring and with dinosaurs as the supbect matter that's perfectly understanable. The characters are a little flat and the math angle is overdone and drags the book down at times. The idea of the amusement park is a fantastic one though and is totally believeable considering the financial implications. Overall, its a decent book but is much better as a movie due to the special effects possible.

Read it!

I've seen the movie so many times and it's one of my favorites. However, I finally bought this book recently and read it. I was so engrossed in it that it only took 2 days to read it. It's a real page-turner. I enjoyed how Crichton developed his characters and you'll get a more in depth view of why each of them act the way they do. It took me years to finally purchase this book because I was afraid that it would be just like the movie but it's quite different and I can't wait to order The Lost World and continue Crichton's adventure....