/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5341979]

I love the film adaption, is the book worth it? I heard it's the exact same thing as the film, but still, what is your opinion on it, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.5342053]

It is not the same as the film, certain characters do not die in the book that die in the film, to say the least. Also, rockets.

/lit/ undoubtedly hates Michael Crichton because of his politics, but they will go out of their way to say they hate him for far more academic reasons so as to not seem so shallow.

Crichton was and still is popular, the shallow hipsters of /lit/ despise that.

[Anonymous No.5342079]

>>5342053
Which politics are those exactly?

[Anonymous No.5342084]

>>5342079
Climate skeptic

[Anonymous No.5342090]

>>5342053
Wasn't he a massive asshole as well?

[Anonymous No.5342103]

>>5342090
>this shit has nothing to do with Jurassic Park

Who fucking cares if he made fun of some asshole journalist? Thats where all this nonsense comes from.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.5342146]

>>5341979
His last good novel

[Anonymous No.5342162]

>reading Pirate Latitudes because I like pirates
>it starts with a character waking up

[Anonymous No.5342164]

>>5342162
>I like pirates
you get what you deserve

[Anonymous No.5342168]

>>5342146
>namefag
>typical shallow response
Welcome to /lit/

[Anonymous No.5342175]

>>5342079
MRA, didn't believe in global warming, etc.

That's probably the only book where the movie is actually better. The book feels formulaic, like Crichton was just writing for another movie adaption. The two kids, for example, are just like Tim and Alex, one is a "hacker", etc. The movie did good to transform both kids into one, and to make her Malcolm's kid instead of just some stowaways.

>>5342090
Yeah. In response to a critic, he wrote a character (obviously) based off him who was a child molester with an expressly small dick.

Still a good writer as far as pop stuff goes. Timeline was full YA tho

[Anonymous No.5342176]

>>5342164
Hey. Treasure Island and On Stranger Tides are great.

[Anonymous No.5342178]

>>5342175
>the only book where
The only book by Crichton, I mean

[Anonymous No.5342180]

>>5342168
>Anonymous
>always shitting up /lit/ with irrelevant shitposting about other trip and named users
can you cry over to /b/ like a good little boy already

[Anonymous No.5342186]

>>5342180
>oh god the irony

[Anonymous No.5342206]

>>5342186
the lack of irony of someone calling something ironic when it isn't

[Anonymous No.5342215]

>>5342206
>it fits the dictionary definition

Stop being a pedantic autist.

[Anonymous No.5342219]

>>5342053
Hating somebody based on politics isn't shallow.

[Anonymous No.5342224]

>>5342215
As soon as you stop being an idiot.

[Anonymous No.5342227]

>>5342224
>anon
>not being idiotic
pick one, anon.

[Anonymous No.5342233]

>>5342227
now this is quality shitposting

[Anonymous No.5342248]

>>5341979
It's good and so is Lost World.
Every Crichton book I've read is good.
Andromeda Strain, Sphere, Prey (AS all over again, but still fun)

[Anonymous No.5342277]

>>5341979
It's trashy and fun and it doesn't take much longer to read than it takes to watch the movie. All Crichton is trashy, fun and fast, so it's mostly "worth it" because the time commitment is so low.

Or maybe it's actually bad and I was wrong when I was 13 and read everything he wrote, but 13 year old me was cool as hell so I doubt it.

[Anonymous No.5342391]

>>5342227
That gif made me spit milk at the screen. Christ I was laughing so much.

[Anonymous No.5342518]

>>5342175
> The two kids, for example, are just like Tim and Alex, one is a "hacker", etc. The movie did good to transform both kids into one, and to make her Malcolm's kid instead of just some stowaways.

Are you talking about The Lost World?