Just started reading this. Thoughts?

I went to school with Sam Neill.

>>8638727
It was a good book. Very different from the movie. Same thing with the sequel. I love how Crichton uses Ian occasionally to insert his own monologues. One of the better monologues is in the sequel where he predicts in a sad tone that the Internet will culturally homogenize the globe because culture, like biology, requires relative isolation to diverge.

>>8638727
i read it several times as a kid but i remember jack shit. i remember there being illustrations of computer interfaces which excited me at the time, and that ian malcolm had various monologues about science and nature that seemed incredibly profound when i was 10 but i suspect i would find them silly now. oh and i remember that the rival corporation genetically engineered cat-sized pet elephants but they never saw a commercial release because the prototypes were mean and violent. or am i thinking of a different book?

i have rewatched the movie recently and it's a legit masterpiece. i might read the book again to see how much of that is spielberg and how much comes from crichton but the movie is so tightly constructed and thematically rich that i doubt the book could be better.

Muldoon best character

>>8638727
is that true what ian malcom says about wearing all black, how it's better to wear for hot weather