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Let's be honest, the book is terrible


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

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Yeah, I remember reading changes they made in the movie script to make the movie better than the book:

1.) Hammond (the old rich man) was more of an asshole in the book, and you get to see in greater detail what an ass he was to Dennis Nedry. In fact, there's a reason Dennis was seeking to find money elsewhere and betraying his boss; while no expense was spared on much of the island's accommodations, Hammond was cheap in the tech dept. He had Dennis working almost entirely alone on the security system as well as the main computers, and he was not being compensated at all for lack of staff. Now Nedry wasn't exactly good with his own finances, and he wasn't a good man, but even he didn't deserve to be treated like that. You think programming an entire computer system for a theme park is difficult today, imagine how much harder it was in the early 90s, and with very little help!

2.) Lex was completely useless in the book. It was the younger brother who was the computer nerd, while Lex was the cowardly sister that ran around screaming at the first sign of scary creatures, or worse, stupidly getting their attention.

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I admit I like the movie but I also like the book a bit more. Unlike the movie, the breeding of the dinosaurs is a substantial chunk of the story.

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Clearly you have terrible taste.

The books is amazing and has a very good pace. The only bad part from the book is the last part, which was totally ridiculous and illogical.

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the book was dope! what are you talking about?
Muldoon lived, Hammond died. THAT WAS FAIR

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graphic death descriptions just helps sell the book

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I remember the book being much better than the film.

What's interesting is that they used scenes from it for the two sequels such as the girl being attacked on the beach at the start of The Lost World, and the T-rex swimming upstream and chasing them in a river from the third movie.

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It’s far better than the movie, which is quite thin when rewatching it with adult eyes.

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