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Jurassic Park

michael crichton f.h. cornish

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This is an Intermediate Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the stories are also available on audio-cassette.

null pages, Paperback

First published November 7,1990
Series
Jurassic Park
Literary awards
audie award, books i loved best yearly (bilby) awards, south carolina book award, colorado blue spruce young adult book award, nevada young readers award, evergreen teen book award, soaring eagle book award, iowa teen award, 
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Format
null pages, Paperback
Published
May 28, 1997 by Delta Systems
ISBN
9780435273484
ASIN
0435273485
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • John Hammond

    John Hammond

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  • Ian Malcolm

    Ian Malcolm

    Dr. Ian Malcolm, alongside Dr. Grant, is another key figure in the Jurassic Park films and novels. He is a mathematician and chaos theorist and refers to himself as a "chaotician". He goes on many long lectures on chaos theory and the results of meddling ...

  • Alan Grant

    Alan Grant

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  • Ellie Sattler

    Ellie Sattler

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  • Tim Murphy

    Tim Murphy

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michael crichton

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Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was one of the most successful novelists of his generation, admired for his meticulous scientific research and fast-paced narrative. He graduated summa cum laude and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1969. His first novel, Odds On (1966), was written under the pseudonym John Lange and was followed by seven more Lange novels. He also wrote as Michael Douglas and Jeffery Hudson. His novel A Case of Need won the Edgar Award in 1969. Popular throughout the world, he has sold more than 200 million books. His novels have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and thirteen have been made into films.

Michael Crichton died of lymphoma in 2008. He was 66 years old.

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1dubloon
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April 26,2025
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I thought this was brilliant! Reading a classic that is also such a brilliant film is a wonderful and it has made me very excited to read more Crichton. This reads more like a horror than a Disney classic and that is definitely a good thing. Some incredible scenes in this and the changes between the book and the film show, I think, what a top-tier director Spielberg is as he really fleshed out some of the character arcs.
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Lavi-en-Rose
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April 26,2025
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Lesson from this book: Kids are annoying and will get you killed.

Ok I’m slightly exaggerating but have you noticed how frustrating children characters are during a crisis?

I’m sure they would be during the apocalypse or when being tracked by dinosaurs but I wanted to throw my phone at the wall a few times while reading this book.

With that said, I now have a new completely reasonable phobia, being eaten alive by a dinosaur.

Crichton did an amazing job at keeping me on my toes and completely stressed! I was afraid it wouldn't live up to the movie since I remember being traumatized by it as a kid but it totally did!

I really loved all the science bits which weren't in the movie.

Worth the read!

More books that made me not want to have kids: https://youtu.be/H_ES-eqbKQs
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Kyuless
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April 26,2025
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At the risk of offending what looks to be all my male goodreads friends who loved this (none of my female friends have read it, which is remarkable but probably not random), I couldn't finish it. It wasn't the multiple viewpoints or so-so prose, it was the science. I worked for awhile as an assistant paleontologist--field, prep, and curating--and I promise you, pretty much everything in the first 50 pages on this topic is wrong. I wasn't loving the book anyway, and kept finding random factual errors (passports not needed for international travel? You can't possibly fake a fax of a x-ray?) But the scenes on the fossil "dig" did me in.

1) you don't clean fossils in the field. You get them out of the field and into the lab, where you have air scribes, microscopes, safe places to rest them, and far more tools than you can schlep on your back out to the field.

2) "bits of bone flaked away as he dug." Then he's an incompetent idiot. You do everything to keep "bits" from flaking away. A bit IS the fossil. If this happens in the lab, you stop, stabilize, get a better prep person if you have a real star at it in your group, or you just quit. Plenty of fossils remain only partially exposed in museums trays because they are too friable to clean further. They're still useful. Just because it isn't on public display to wow the kiddies doesn't mean it isn't there. This Alan guy, he just keeps ruining the fossil. When real paleontologists flake a tiny little something away, they beat their breasts and curse and sometimes even cry.

3) They have the only egg site in the world for this species, and they're using jackhammers on it. Seriously? Jackhammers? We didn't own one. We wouldn't have taken one if it were a gift. You preserve the data at all costs, including leaving it the heck alone, if need be. Jackhammers may be rarely used with huge, whole specimens, if your team can drag a generator that far, but not in this case--never ever would that happen.

4) The broken bones get tossed aside and whirred up into fragments... No. Broken bones are also useful. Very useful. Broken bones get collected, cleaned, and curated. Museum collections are mostly of fossils that are partial. The only fossils I ever saw thrown away were some that got lost from their documentation and were therefore useless.

5) ...from which DNA is extracted. Not even in a million-year-old fossil, much less a 190-million-year-old one. When you crunch up fossils into sandy bits, all you get is sand.

6) rubber cement. Very big for stabilizing in 1903. Not so much when this book was written. A plastic resin dissolved in acetone is used, like polyvinyl butryal.

... and so on.

You simply cannot make that many factual errors and I continue reading. My suspension of disbelief is gone long before the monsters come on stage.

This is the third of his books I've tried, the second I've given up on before the end, and all three were just riddled with errors. And he was already famous--he could have interviewed anyone before writing. Why get it wrong when he could have, with a few hours of work, gotten it right? Maddening.
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momoxtoshiro
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April 26,2025
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Circling back around for a re-read. I mean, it's only been about 30 years. WHY NOT? And now that we have the 18th movie in 185 million years, I thought it might be a good idea to re-ground myself in why life will always find a way...

You know, since humanity can't.

So, let's be honest here. It was always a book about how all our plans will always go awry and we're a breath away from kicking it with our ancestors.

I wonder if, in another 185 million years, someone is going to gene splice their way to bringing us back, to put us in a zoo, and then blithely carry out their own extinction event because we JUST SUCK THAT MUCH.



Oh, by the way, this was a really fun book, even now. :)
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Mohireza
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April 26,2025
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My second time reading this, the first time being back in the 90s. It's a solidly entertaining story, with lots to say about the use of scientific power and knowledge that continues to feel relevant decades after it was first published.

This time around I listened to the audiobook, and I thought the narrator did a great job! It's quite different from the film, but having seen the film makes it easy to fill in the visuals in your head.

Worth a read if you haven't read it, and worth a reread if you have, because it holds up fine.
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itsukaka
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April 26,2025
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Clearly not my type of book. Michael Crichton can write, that's for sure and he did hold my interest but the book was just plain silly to me.
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JoeDaPotato
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April 26,2025
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That was an awesome audiobook!!!! Scott Brick did an amazing job!
I was 12 when I first saw this at the cinema, I loved it, and have watched every subsequent jurassic Park film. Chris Pratt anyone?!
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