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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 19, 2021 15:13:52 GMT
It's really excellent so far, it hooks you right in from the start. It's so different from the movie though, to the point where I nearly forget that the movie was based on it while I'm reading.
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Post by janntosh on Jul 19, 2021 15:17:58 GMT
Yes the book is an adult har sci fi thriller. I love the movie but it basically takes an adult novel and turns it into family entertainment
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Post by politicidal on Jul 19, 2021 15:19:32 GMT
I reread it a bunch of times. It's certainly much darker than the movie. I'd kind of want them to remake it as a miniseries or a tv show like they did for his other novel Westworld. At least in a post-GoT landscape, it would hopefully have better CGI than Terra Nova.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 19, 2021 15:26:01 GMT
I reread it a bunch of times. It's certainly much darker than the movie. I'd kind of want them to remake it as a miniseries or a tv show like they did for his other novel Westworld. At least in a post-GoT landscape, it would hopefully have better CGI than Terra Nova.I could definitely see it working in a miniseries format. But they'd really have to go out of their way to distinguish it from the movies.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jul 19, 2021 16:11:55 GMT
Love the book for the most part.
My favorite bit is probably the opening ~100 pages explaining the more technical and suspicious business attributes of Hammond’s company as it prepares for the dino reveal.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 19, 2021 17:12:07 GMT
Love the book for the most part. My favorite bit is probably the opening ~100 pages explaining the more technical and suspicious business attributes of Hammond’s company as it prepares for the dino reveal. Yeah, I think the buildup is sensationally done. He was really a hell of a good writer.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 19, 2021 17:14:36 GMT
Excellent book.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 19, 2021 17:39:08 GMT
I did not like the movie and did not like the book. Crichton is no Richard Matheson but he was good at explaining scientific concepts in simple ways.
The scene where the baby raptors are killed -- I think that should have been in the movie. It kind of sums up the distortion of natural things.
And also Hammond being killed by the compies was ironic.
I am pretty sure there is a line where Ian Malcolm said he had identical sets of the same clothes so he didnt have to waste thought on such matters as what to wear. I thought of The Fly 1986 when I read that. I assumed Jeff Goldblum was an influence on writing him.
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Post by jamesbamesy on Jul 19, 2021 17:58:13 GMT
Gonna read this eventually to see what it's like and how different it is compared to the film.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 19, 2021 17:59:13 GMT
I've read three of his books (JP, Lost World, Congo)
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 19, 2021 18:05:31 GMT
I've read three of his books (JP, Lost World, Congo) Congo was a fun movie.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 19, 2021 18:07:37 GMT
I've read three of his books (JP, Lost World, Congo) Read those three plus Airframe, Timeline, Sphere, and the posthumous novels Pirate Latitudes, Micro, and Dragon Teeth.
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Post by HumanFundRecipient on Jul 19, 2021 18:17:29 GMT
I wish I had known about the switcheroo of the Tim and Lex characters before my attempt to read the novel (Tim is the older sibling, not Lex). Good to know that for Joe Mazzello, he got the best consolation prize after not getting a role in Hook.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 19, 2021 18:26:48 GMT
I wish I had known about the switcheroo of the Tim and Lex characters before my attempt to read the novel (Tim is the older sibling, not Lex). Good to know that for Joe Mazzello, he got the best consolation prize after not getting a role in Hook. Wasn't that him in Hook? I guess not.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 19, 2021 18:28:07 GMT
I wish I had known about the switcheroo of the Tim and Lex characters before my attempt to read the novel (Tim is the older sibling, not Lex). Good to know that for Joe Mazzello, he got the best consolation prize after not getting a role in Hook. Wasn't that him in Hook? I guess not. No it was Charlie Korsmo. The same kid from the Dick Tracy movie with Warren Beatty.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jul 20, 2021 5:13:54 GMT
The only Crichton book I've read to date has been Timeline. Excellent concept and the science aspect is so well handled in the narrative that the time travel plot actually feels intensely believable. The characters weren't great though.
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Post by Hurdy Gurdy Man on Jul 20, 2021 7:11:29 GMT
I did not expect it to mostly have characters who were so hard to root for. Spielberg improved upon them in the film. Attenborough's Hammond is so much better than Hammond in the novel.
Spielberg had done the same for his adaptation of Jaws - all characters in Benchley's novel are asshats as well and difficult to care about.
If you think JP the novel is very different from JP the film, wait till you get around to reading The Lost World.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 20, 2021 15:53:55 GMT
I did not expect it to mostly have characters who were so hard to root for. Spielberg improved upon them in the film. Attenborough's Hammond is so much better than Hammond in the novel.
Spielberg had done the same for his adaptation of Jaws - all characters in Benchley's novel are asshats as well and difficult to care about.
If you think JP the novel is very different from JP the film, wait till you get around to reading The Lost World.
The Lost World is next.
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