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Let's be honest, the book is terrible

posted 3 years ago by agaete2305 (386)
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I've tried to read the book 3 times... and I can't finish it.
I think it's very poorly written, things happen fast, the author doesn't pause to describe the characters, the emotions of the characters or WORST OF ALL, he doesn't stop to describe the dinosaurs (the stars of the story), basically he write "it's tall, with big teeth and it's green". The author stops more times to describe the graphics of a death (talking even about the steam that comes out of the intestines of a victim who was recently attacked by a velociraptor).
Not to mention the pages and pages when the characters try to hack the system to get it back online... (did he really stop to type every command and error in the computer???)
Also, Lex is unbearable.
End of statement

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17855) 3 years ago

The books is great, read it multiple times.

[–] TheArgentinian (7109) 3 years ago

I haven't read it but I did read that it's one of those cases where the movie is better than the book. Like Fight Club.

[–] RoboReCop (3324) 3 years ago

I liked 'Jurassic Park', but I like 'The Lost World' novel more; though I love 'Jurassic Park' (1993) film the most!

[–] HarrySkywalker (702) 10 months ago

Are you kidding with me?

The Lost World novel is awful.

[–] Nosduj (145) 3 years ago

Maybe you could try something for the "Young Readers" section. That might be more your speed. R.I.F

[–] contreras (470) 3 years ago

I did enjoy the book but I think Spielberg or whomever worked on the script did a lot for the movie. There's some iconic scenes that are not in the book and the plot of the raptors boarding the boat in the book is rather silly.

[–] RedVIII (76) 3 years ago

I agree with your comments on the weirdness of Crichton's way of describing things, but I still think it's a good book overall.

[–] triplea (3577) 3 years ago

I've read several of the books, they are all fine.

OP is uncultured is all - maybe you prefer picturebooks?

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8758) 3 years ago

I read the book a couple of years ago.

I thought it was good but very different from the movie. Clearly Spielberg only used the book as a very rough outline, mostly just borrowing the concept and the characters and then largely crafting a new narrative that only matched Crichton's in the broad strokes.

I'm okay with that. While the book was an interesting read and not a waste of time, it lacked the HEART of the movie. I read the book once, enjoyed it, and will never read it again. But the movie is immortal, a legend.