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Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
 

Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

by Michael Crichton

Now at last in one volume, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World--the two incomparably suspenseful, supremely scary, utterly unputdownable, worldwide best-selling return-of-the-dinosaurs novels, which together constitute Jurassic World. (read review)

Top tags: science fiction,  fiction,  dinosaurs,  thriller,  michael crichton (all tags)

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Amazon Reviews (5)
 

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Chad K.
  • Rated 5 stars

“A suspenseful horror-thriller masterpiece. Crichton seems to find the right note to play from start to finish. He begins with a great premise: scientists have re-created dinosaurs from DNA preserved in mosquitoes and put them in an amusement park. Then Crichton gets the ball rolling by having the dinosaurs escape. From this point on, the suspense builds at a frantic pace. Crichton also throws in some philosophy, mainly through the character Ian Malcolm. This element only makes the novel...”

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Peach
  • Rated 2 stars

“Scientists have found a way to clone “dinosaurs" using the mosquitoes fossilized in amber (still containing damaged DNA from saurian blood) and genetic sequences from modern-day reptiles and amphibians.

Jurassic Park isn’t great literature, but it is an immensely readable tale about when science tries to play God. However unlikely the cloning of dinosaurs using the methods described, Crichton manages to present his inventions in a convincing manner. There is also something...”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.034054 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.6 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet said:

    “The film was silly and leaves out too much, of course by the time they sequeled it to death, iguess they got all anybody wanted. i just cant take Crichton. ever since i read Rising Sun and saw him for the racist that he is, it is hard to read him. i read thsi book to my now grown son when he was about 5-6, bored both of us silly, though he he liked the action in the movie...”

    posted Saturday, May 17 2008
  • Susan D

    susan d said:

    “I actually read the book after seeing the movie, and I was too scared to sit in the dark living room by myself! The movie was scary, but the book was probably ten times as scary!”

    posted Friday, March 28 2008
  • semsema k

    semsema k said:

    “i think it is a nice book like the film”

    posted Monday, January 14 2008
  • Magnolia

    magnolia said:

    “wowww.it is wonderful.
    i love it because of it is adventure.that made very carefully.
    ”

    posted Tuesday, December 25 2007
  • Davide T

    davide t said:

    “it's definitely more perceptive than the film's rendition..”

    posted Sunday, November 18 2007
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