/lit/ - Literature

>>18652937

I love Michael Crichton's writing style, any authors like him? I love his way of weaving exposition into the narrative.

Are you ready for Jurassic Park to be a reality, /lit/?

Just read this for the first time, wtf was that ending?

After chapters of being chased by raptors, many people getting killed by their psychopathic cunningness and killing 6-7 of the raptors. Alan decides they MUST find the nests, so they can COUNT them?

WHY
H
Y

You proved your point they were reproducing, you found a juvenile male and brought it back to the lodge for everyone to see. If you wanted to personally kill them all, throw the gas grenades down the nest holes? But nah, gotta crawl into darkness to count them all.

And why did all the nesting adults ignore the intruders in their nest?
>all the eggs have currently hatched so they're more relaxed
You just spent the entire novel having these fuckers chase down everyone they got a wiff of or heard a peep of, and now that humans walked straight into their nests they don't really seem to care
>but the humans were mostly out of sight behind boxes
oh okay well that solves everything then.

I like the idea of the raptors wanting to migrate, but the vehicle they used to get to that idea was dumb.

And what was dr grants problem? he got so fucking mad at gerrano at the end
>NOOOOOO you can't just own 5% of the company and not personally hand kill every raptor on the island (not kill, count).
>you have to come with us and count them all this is all your fault because you didn't check on what hammond was doing the last 5 years
>even though this entire weekend was your doing and you were coming out here to see what hammond was up to, and by this point in the novel you wanted the whole island destroyed but wanting the costa rican military to do it for you isn't good enough

fucking hell grant

>>12678627
Absolutely. Jurassic Park is a fantastic book, really well written.

ITT: books who's movie adaptation was better

>>10805833
I agree movie tie-ins are disgusting, but I was looking for the original first-edition novel cover they took the movie artwork from - it's this, I think.
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