![]() ![]() Grant when he tells her to be quiet later. Oh, her making noise attracted the T-rex and all of them almost died? Makes sense she refuses to listen to Dr. I teach 8 year old children, and I can tell you none of them are as stupid as her. Then there are the characters who are just plain annoying, like the 8 year old girl Lex. The basic concept of the book illustrates the dangers of unregulated science, why does he need to repeatedly have Malcolm tell me "science bad, science bad, SCIENCE BAD!"? I hate it when books are trying to indoctrinate me. Is it unfair of me to expect characters with at least a little depth from this book? The only slightly interesting character, Ian Malcolm, about half way through the book became an obvious avatar for Crichton himself, since whenever he talked from that point on it was to spew Crichton's anti-science propaganda. The movie is exactly like this book, but Spielberg smartly cut out the fat that makes this pulp sci-fi not as appetizing as it should be. Sadly, this is one of the cases where the movie is superior to the book. How does a book with a concept that seems to be perfectly matched for my taste fail to garner more than 3 stars? From the get-go, this book in particular was at a big disadvantage since I have seen the iconic movie that was made from it more than 20 times, so I invariably compare it to the movie. ![]()
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