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I read Jurassic Park before the movie came out and I remember feeling a bit ripped off because of how different it was from the book.
I re-read it over the weekend and I had forgotten just how different it was. Ian Malcolm was quite the philosopher in the book and he was a jerk in the movie (unless it's just that Jeff Goldblum is a jerk). The kids switched ages from the book to the movie (in the book the girl was the younger one) and the boy was the computer nerd in the book. The book reinforced Malcolm's contention that the parks creators actually had no control over the park because nobody really knew anything about how these creatures would behave.
I started to re-read "The Lost World" just to check my impression and it, too, is very different.
My conclusion is that you could have probably not have told those stories the way Crichton wrote them in the time alloted.
Whatever, if you are a Jurassic Park/Jurassic World fan check these books out.
I re-read it over the weekend and I had forgotten just how different it was. Ian Malcolm was quite the philosopher in the book and he was a jerk in the movie (unless it's just that Jeff Goldblum is a jerk). The kids switched ages from the book to the movie (in the book the girl was the younger one) and the boy was the computer nerd in the book. The book reinforced Malcolm's contention that the parks creators actually had no control over the park because nobody really knew anything about how these creatures would behave.
I started to re-read "The Lost World" just to check my impression and it, too, is very different.
My conclusion is that you could have probably not have told those stories the way Crichton wrote them in the time alloted.
Whatever, if you are a Jurassic Park/Jurassic World fan check these books out.