Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I finally read this book after having watched the movie dozens of times of the years. I have the utmost respect of the adapted screenplay writer because the movie was very good and quite different from the book. For being such a 1900's blockbuster movie I was surprised to find that the book had even more grandiose action packed scenes that didn't make it to the scene. In one scene Alan Grant, Lex, and Tim go over a 50-foot waterfall in a raft down to a pool where the Tyrannosaurus Rex is waiting for them at the bottom. There was also a scene where the T-Rex goes swimming out after the raft. The background in genetic engineering and chaos theory mathematics is also much more developed in the book. Crichton really highlights the ridiculous of trying to engineer a system of control for something as unpredictable as evolutionary biology. How some of the research coming from genetic engineering is going into modifying paler trout that are more easily seen in rivers, or square trees that are easier lumbering. Crichton also tried to hypothesize about dinosaur behavior in the book such as the velociraptors being migratory creatures and nocturnal.
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