Jurassic Park
	Author(s):	Crichton, Michael
	Publisher:	Ballantine Books
	Date:	1990
	ISBN:	0-345-37077-5
	Cause:	Genetic Mutation/Experimentation
	Creatures:	Extinct Reptiles
	Submitted by:	Mike Riley (02/14/04)
Exerpt: "She took several snapshots of the injury, shifting her light for a better view. It really did look like bites, she thought. Then the kid groaned, and she put her camera aside and bent toward him. His lips moved, his tongue thick. 'Raptor', he said. 'Lo sa raptor' … At those words, Manuel froze, stepped back in horror."
Reviews: "A scary, creepy, mesmerizing technothriller with teeth." (Publishers Weekly) "A winner … Highly enteraining … Michale Crichton has written a thriller combining sophisticaed biotechnology with prehistoric legend. And what a thriller it is." (St. Petersburg Times) "Ingenious … Jurassic Park is hard to beet for sheer intellectual entertainment." (Entertainment Weekly) "His best to date." (The New York Times) "Exciting … Frightening." (The New York Times) "By far the best science fiction I have read since Jules Verne in my youth." (John Barkham Review)

4-1/2 Scars

My Opinion: OK, nearly everyone in the "civilized world" has seen Stephen Spielberg's cinematic interpretation of this novel and nearly every book critic has reviewed it. I'll keep this short, get this book and read it! This novel is one of the cornerstones of the "Nature on the Rampage!" theme and is much, much better (but perhaps "dryer") than the movie. Every wonder why Biosyn was after InGen technology, how dinosaurs got off the island without being detected, or what really necessitated the visit by lawyers/chaotician/paleontologists? And the ending ... well ... forget the movie and read the book!

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