Jurassic Park

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Summary: I think Jurassic Park was an exciting and interesting book.
Review: I found Jurassic Park to be a very interesting book, and alsovery entertaining. The reason I liked Jurassic Park so much wasbecause Michal Crichton studied the top scientific frontiers of the time and made them the subject for his book. This also makes the aside from entertaining, also educational. Even though the book was great it's movie was not aas good. It did have better special effects than the book but all and all the book was better. Well Jurassic Park is an entertaining book to read, and I suggest you do so.

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Summary: besides its sequel JURASSIC PARK is the best sci-fi bookever
Review: Although Michael made some factual errors, the plot(a man who wants to make a dinousaour theme park invites soem people to come look at it, and the dinousaours break loose because their electric fences fail)and the characters(Dr. Ian Malcom and Grant are fascinating)make this the best sci-fi book ever. It competes-and defeats-War of the Worlds(H.G.Wells)and 2001, 2062, and 3001. a excellent boo

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Summary: Not a bad story, but beware the factual errors...
Review: Michael Crichton is undeniably an addictive author, but in all honesty, this book lacked some important factors. Clever though Ian Malcolm may be, he rarely predicts anything the reader hadn't predicted three pages beforehand, and several of the supporting characters are intolerably wooden. From a palaeontological perspective, the book is a loss. That Spielberg based his film upon Crichton's template was insult upon injury. Velociraptor mongoliensis was merely fifty centimetres tall, and Dilophosaurus wetherilli, devoid of hollow teeth, spat no poisons. I could almost forgive his factual errors had he not brandished them all over the sequel, The Lost World. I'm left to wonder what errors existed in other novels, on other scientific topics. All in all, I think Jurassic Park is worth a look--just don't believe everything you read. --Darren Jame

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Summary: Wow! This is one of the Best Novels I have ever read!!!!
Review: I give this book a ten for Its writing and writing style, and for the story. I know this is an adult novel and I am only nine years old, but I found this book strangely simple. Some of the ideas might be little hard but the words are not. The concepts are difficult really for anyone over ten. Therefore I highly reccomend this book to anyone ten or over, but some 9-year olds, too. Also, some parts of this book are a little inappropriate, such as page 376, but that is minor. The author, Michael Crichton, is a wonderful author, and that contributed to the book's greatness. I hope everyone gets to read JURASSIC PARK sometime in their life!

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Summary: This is a cool book. If you don't like it, you must be nuts!
Review: I think this is the coolest book that Crichton has ever written! The plot, the characters, the setting, it was just too cool! The price is worth it! I read it when I was six, and have reread it 7 times now! Once again, I say, COOL! Too bad I can't say the same about the sequel:Lost World. I gave it a 4

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Summary: A MASTERPIECE
Review: What if we got DNA to clone dinosaurs, creatures we know nothing about, and bring them back to life? Read Michael Crichton's fascinating, yet frightening book. It's so good, I think you'll read it untill you can recite it

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Summary: The Best Book You'll Ever Read!!!!!!!!
Review: Wow. From the Prolague to the Epilogue, you won't have a dull moment! Crichton blends science with plot in his usual incredible style-it's hard to believe you're learning something as you read. There comes this point in the book where you just can't stop...and you finally take a break and realize you just read 100 pages in what seemed like 20 minutes! As soon as you find out one answer, another mystery comes by to challenge you...

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Summary: Can't put your book down, it's amazinglly interesting
Review: I live in Costa Rica and for us is a very interesting book, because it goes to a lot of places,that even us haven't been, You start thinking if it is really possible, and just can't stop reading, also hoping that it will never end. Sabrina Vargas Costa Rica

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Summary: excellent book good movie
Review: This book is excellent. The thought of dinosaurs walking the earth was enough to keep me interested, but Crichton keeps the book riveting with a combination of fast-paced action and well thought-out discussions between the characters, especialy Ian. Don't get me wrong, the movie is excellent but in no way does it do the book justice.

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Summary: Just another piece of unrealistic dinosaur S***!!!
Review: The way Crichton protrays dinosaurs is a disgrace. Sure, he knows their names, and what they look like, but he knows next to nothing about dinosaur behavior, theories... There are so many things that I can not put them all here. First of all, and of course, the most "well-known" and least accurate, the "Velicoraptors" The reason why I put that in quotation marks is that they aren't Velicoraptors, which are only 6 feet long and about HALF the size of a human, they're Deinonychi, and the ones the the movie were even bigger, half the size between a Deinonychus and a Utahraptor. Another thing, you can't hunt in a pack, an extreamly social enviroment where a very intimate understanding of each other's feelings is needed for a pack to function properly. Raptors hunt in packs like wolves, behavior should be modeled after wolves. Pack memebers are very close to eachother, they don't go EAT their members as soon as they die!! "...The female raptor shrieks and grabs his hand in her mouth, trying to pull her mate by the arm. But that action fails too--it rolls him onto his side. His face is smothered by mud... ...His mate cries piteously. She tries to dig out the mud from underneath his head. It's hopeless. Her sharp claws cut through the mud but can't shovel it out... ...She doesn't know what to do. Nothing works. Nothing in her learned experience is helpful; nothing in her learned repertoire. Finally her sense of self-preservation overcomes the pair-bond, and she retreats to a bit of high ground. In ten more minutes the trapped raptor is dead, his body totally submerged in the dark sediment. The female raptor sits stunned for hours--she has just lost the mate she had chosen for life. They had hunted together successfully hundreds of times. They made countless kills without either raptor being injured in the slightest. She does not know what to do." -Raptor Red, by Robbert Bakker, if you want to read about dinosaurs, read THAT, he's a paleontologist, HE knows what he's talking about. Still talking about hunting, you don't go eat 50 things a day when you're already full, and you don't take your attention off your chosen prey. Also, now to the T-rex, you don't ROAR and just SCREAM out that you've stolen some food when the origional owner is probably not more that 50 feet away, and a whole lot bigger than you. And what the HELL was that tounge about? More on raptors: they're one of the closest dinosaurs to the archeoperyx, they don't have chamelon skin, they almost defenatly had feathers. And dinosaurs had a very strong sense of smell and eyesight. And one hell of a better memory than to forget something startling and unusual in less than two minutes. Dinosaurs don't have poison, either. And look a hell of a lot different from lizards. The last thing, nothing to do with accuracy, but another thing that I found disgusting with the book, actually, disgustingly cute, was the referance to Procompsognathi as "Compys" There was a lot more wrong with it, but I'm sure that you've heard me enough.