Jurassic Park Book

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"Life always finds a way."

Jurassic Park: The Junior Novelisation is the written version of the original Jurassic Park movie (1995). Loosely based around the events of Jurassic Park, the novel by Michael Crichton, this novelisation has barely anything new to offer that the movie didn't. Personally, I'm always a big fan of novelisations but this one fell a little bland. Even if I ignore how extraordinarily simple the writing was, the story didn't feel as empowered as it did in the movie. For me, personally, the only reason why the book was exciting enough to get a 4 star rating was because while I was reading, I was easily able to picture the scenes from the movie. Having watched the original an umpteen number of times, it was brilliant and exciting to read it. Yet, I feel that is where the similarities ended. While the movie kept me on my toes all through the while, the book was barely able to give that feeling.

What I enjoyed about it was that it included some parts in it that even the movie didn't have. That certainly provided some convenience to the story. At the same time, the parts that were included in the book and the movie, for example, of all the deaths'those parts felt a little bland. The main reason why the deaths were so devastating was because of how they happened. Somehow, I don't think Herman was able to bring out that feeling. Even for a kid, it didn't seem nice enough. I would rather recommend my kid sister to read the original (and the original being over 400 pages, it is next to impossible) than this one.