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Hi frens! 🦖
📖 How’s your weekend starting out? I’ve been painting and reading, and I’m super excited to share that I finally finished Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton!
😜 I’m still working on the art of convincing people to read a book without spoiling it, but I’ll do my best here.
📕 Let me just say: the book is so much better than the movie (and that’s saying something, because the movie will always have a special place in my heart). The novel is basically one cliffhanger after another—I was absolutely hooked! There’s nonstop adventure and so much tension as the characters dodge dinosaurs at every turn.
I was pleasantly surprised by how the characters react to the dinosaurs in the book. I love Ian Malcolm’s character even more here—his warnings about the park being a disaster waiting to happen are even sharper and more compelling. I thought Dr. Grant would come to the same conclusion as Malcolm a bit sooner, but as a paleontologist, he’s understandably in awe—this is the pinnacle of his career, after all! Unlike Malcolm, he has less time to process the reality of prehistoric creatures walking the earth again.
The characters are all a bit different (sometimes a LOT different) from their movie versions, but it works so well. If I could change one thing, I would have loved to see Dr. Sattler play a bigger role throughout the novel.
📝 All in all, I’m so glad I finally read it. There’s action, adventure, dinosaurs, humans being humans, and a sprinkle of science and deep questions about the consequences of our actions. I was hooked from start to finish.
If you haven’t read it yet, I hope you give yourself the chance—don’t wait as long as I did!
See you later, alligator 🐊

Godspeed! By the way, I wrote and painted some dinosaurs here 👀 just in case you want to know more about dinosaurs, just like it happened to me!
I love so many of Michael Crichton’s books, if you want to destroy a twelve hour flight a great start is grabbing one of his fast moving action thrillers such as JP.
With that said my favourite of them has never as far as a know been turned into a movie, and that one is Airframe. Highly recommend.
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Someone else on nostr recommended me timeline, now I’m adding airframe to my list I wish I would’ve started reading Crichton much earlier! Thank you!
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With that recommendation, it's going on my list - I'm headed on a longer trip soon, and need lots of reading!
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Safe travels and hope you enjoy this book!
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I think I preferred the John Hammond in the book to the film portrayal. Read this book while in the SE Asia and was my first introduction to chaos theory. Glad you enjoyed it.
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You’re absolutely right. Hammond from the book is way more realistic I’m glad we were able to learn (and enjoy) a little bit about something as complicated as chaos theory can be.
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I can sense your excitement while reading this book
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I felt just like Holden, to be honest: “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” But thankfully there’s stacker news 🗞️ hehehe where I can talk about it with people as excited as me 😅
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What's with this new trend of writing everything with an emoji bullet point?
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