Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
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An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy.
As a 22-year-old girl who primarily reads chick lit, I am not the typical science fiction reader. Throughout the time I was reading this book, when people asked me how it was, I hesitantly answered, "Well, it's more science than I'm used to..."
But in the end I thoroughly enjoyed reading Jurassic Park. The science is ever-present, but always understandable. Sometimes I even caught on to things before they were fully explained, which made me feel smart. :) I've seen the movie, but only once, so even though I remembered that much of the action was the same in book and movie, a lot of it still surprised me, and there was plenty that wasn't in the movie. There was some gore, which I was expecting, but it was never too much for me to handle.
My only complaint was that there were a lot of characters. Like, a looooot. So when people got hurt/maimed/killed, half the time I didn't remember or care who they were. I wish I had kept a little chart to keep track of names or something. BUT I did remember the main characters and I cared what happened to them, so I was still invested in the book.
I think I like Jurassic Park more now than when I first finished it. It's one of those stories that you keep thinking about long after you read it.
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