/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14026910]

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

[Anonymous No.14026932]

Yeah that seems like a really low point in the story from what you've just told. Is the book still worth reading tho?

[Anonymous No.14026951]

>>14026932

yes, the rest is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.14026979]

>>14026932
Not op but its my favorite book

[Anonymous No.14027002]

legit didn't know the movie was an adaptation i feel like a brainlet

[Anonymous No.14027020]

>>14027002

are you just really young?

[Anonymous No.14027031]

>>14027020
22, not that young

[Anonymous No.14028625]

>>14027031
>22
>not that young

[Anonymous No.14028870]

>>14027031

[Anonymous No.14028892]

>>14027031
>book released in 1990
>movie released in 1993
>born in 1997
>not that young
anon, i...

[Anonymous No.14028898]

>>14027031
You were 9 years old when I started shitposting on /b/

[Anonymous No.14028910]

>>14027031
GOO GOO TA TA, MOTHERFUCKER

[Anonymous No.14028925]

>>14026910
I read this in junior high and the standout points I remember being exciting were, injecting the egg with poison to kill the raptor, the T-Rex swimming like a croc, the children are the opposite ages as in the movie where the girl is the young one and boy older, Dr. Hammond gets attacked by the tiny dinosaurs and their spit paralyses him and he almost dies, and the Pterodactyl cage. I don't remember anything about counting eggs. I liked the part in the sequel where the dinosaurs had camouflage skin better than a chameleon.

[Anonymous No.14028932]

>>14028892
I rember playing with Tinker Toys in my grandmas basement when the raptor kitchen scene came on when I was probably four. It's one of my oldest memories. I remember the wooden cylinders that I stuck sticks into like a spoke. And I remember being too scared to stay in the basement and had to go upstairs. They had a huge projection TV.

Fuck remember when having an S-Video and laser disk was hot shit?

[Anonymous No.14029704]

>>14026951
>>14026979
thanks i'll give it a shot eventually

[Anonymous No.14029893]

>>14026910
Scifi/fantasy stories are nonsensical. News at 11.

[Anonymous No.14029959]

Michael Crichton wrote some of my favorite books ever. Jurassic Park included, which I read well before the movie came out. I'm special.

[Anonymous No.14030220]

>>14029959
and by special do you mean over 40 years old?