Reddit reviews Jurassic Park: A Novel

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a great novel, intense and clever. Quite different and much better than the movie. 📚

The first novel I read was [Jurassic Park] (https://www.amazon.com/Jurassic-Park-Novel-Michael-Crichton/dp/0345538986/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=). It created in me a love for reading solid captivating novels that has lasted over the last 25 years.

Some personal favorites:

• The Source by James Michener
  
  
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  
  
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  
  
• The Junction Boys by Jim Dent. This one isn't very well written, but I enjoyed the story.
  
  
• Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey.
  
  
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. This one can be read in an afternoon. It's perfect for enjoying a pipe and some sweet tea on your back porch. Start after lunch and you'll probably be done by dinner.

Jurassic Park is a great read! I'm sure he'll love it.

Michael Crichton; he does a lot of books like The Martian. His books are based on real scientific points that blur into fiction to make it more realistic. I like to describe them as "approachable science fiction."

He's most famous for his books-turned-movies: Jurassic Park, Timeline, Congo, and 13th Warrior.

But he also has great approachable ones like Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, and Next.

Right. I get all that. I was just pointing out that there are many books where you see things like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Played-Fire-Millennium/dp/0307949508/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373500736&sr=1-3&keywords=girl+on+fire

http://www.amazon.com/Jurassic-Park-Novel-Michael-Crichton/dp/0345538986/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373500809&sr=1-1&keywords=jurassic+park

This Lost World edition is from 2012, and is probably the newest one. Amazon's stupid review system seems to have mixed it up with Doyle's Lost World though, haha.

Here's a similar edition of the first book.

Sounds like a plan! I can't remember what got me hookedon reading. It may have been the Percy Jackson series that make me looove books.



And if you haven't read it, I highly recommend Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Greatr ead. Currently my favorite book.

This book is $3.04 CAD :)

This one is $3.34 CAD which is $3.01 USD. :)

My favourite pie is Flapper Pie, but I can't find a vegan version :( My second favourite is strawberry rhubarb! Happy Pi Day! :D

> https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0345538986/ref=tmm_mmp_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1540518292&sr=8-18

I actually have the Kindle version of it on my device. I've got all Crichton novels. I've just never got around to reading it for some stupid reason.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0345538986/ref=tmm_mmp_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1540518292&sr=8-18

This one. Although, I can't seem to find the exact edition I read. It had a different cover.

It's where the movie came from. I would recommend it. It gets more into the science part of the science fiction than the movie does, and it's also more graphically violent. Plus, there are several pretty epic parts that didn't make it into the movie, and a lot of the characters are more fleshed out.

My son doesn't need this, but he would love to read it. He loves the movies. Thanks for the offer.

Book!

There are so many I have no idea how someone can not be aware of them.

Just go through the wikipedia article and follow the references that interest you.

To skim over it a bit. We could accidentally put in a gene that damages the soil, put in something that messes with the soils bacteria ecosystem, put in something that kills an insect that is an important part of the ecosystem, create an invasive species that becomes impossible to control, accidentally leak GMO material into non-GMO plants which is happening to a lot of corn in the United States, cause the plant to produce an allergen it wasn't producing before, it goes on and on.

Which is how you know that anyone who thinks there's nothing to worry about with GMOs is either completely ignorant about science or a shill. This unexplored territory and we should use caution as we explore it instead of economically exploiting it as quickly as possible like idiots.

This is a very common theme in Michael Crichton's books about the recklessness of capitalism with scientific discovery. This is stressed in the book version of Jurassic Park, read that if you don't understand the general risks that come with any new technology.