

The endings between the two are also quite different and while I’m confident it’s not a spoiler-alert for the movie, I don’t want to spoil the novel in case you haven’t read it yet.

In the book, there’s also more man vs dinosaur violence such as when Robert Muldoon (the clever girl guy) blows up raptors with a bazooka. Grant and the children being chased by the T-rex down a river on an inflatable raft. But there are more adventure type scenes in the book such as Dr. Obviously the action in the film is top notch. Hammond in the novel is also more greedy and selfish, instead of a more flamboyant, but kind, man. He is much more charming in the film, where in the novel he has one too many monologues about his issue with the park’s scientists. Alan Grant also has more of an emotional arc in the film while in the book, he is more there to serve as reaction to everything that’s happening in the park. They are actually sort of flip flopped when it comes to their interests. Tim and Lex are different ages and altogether different characters. Instead, in the movie version, we have the workers attempting to transport a velociraptor to its holding pen, which was also creepy. This start was not included in the first movie but an altered version of was featured as the opening scene of the second movie. The book starts off in a disturbing fashion with a young American girl attacked by a procompsognathus. Let’s take a look at some of the key differences between the two: No procompsognathus

This evolved to what would eventually become Jurassic Park. Apparently, it began as a screenplay about a graduate student who recreates a dinosaur. The history of how the book came to be is also pretty interesting. I know the movie version so well that I wasn’t sure if the book would capture me, but of course it did – it is Michael Crichton after all, the master of the scientific thriller. “Full of suspense.I actually didn’t read the novel until a couple years back. It’ll keep you riveted.” -The Detroit News powerful.” - The Washington Post Book World In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them-for a price. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. “ Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.” -Chicago Sun-TimesĪn astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.
