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Book Review of Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, Bk 1)

Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, Bk 1)
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While the original Jurassic Park movie may be the best of the Jurassic Park movies, the book far exceeds the first movie in plot, action, and story telling. If youve seen the movie already, then you should be familiar with the plot: Eccentric billionaire John Hammond, through his huge bio-genetics company InGen, funds a top secret scientific project to clone dinosaurs from fossilized DNA and populate the Mother of All Theme Attractions, Jurassic Park. But after a series of incidents that Hammond manages to keep hidden from public view (Velociraptors snack on unsuspecting Costa Rican laborers, for instance Something that wasnt mentioned in the first movie at all), InGen's board of directors sends attorney Donald Gennaro and a team of independent observers to inspect Hammond's theme park on Isla Nublar off the coast of Costa Rica. Their mission: to evaluate Jurassic Park's safety measures and its viability as a money-making tourist attraction. And as you very well know Everything goes horribly wrong!
Whats different in the book than the movie is that there are two T-Rexes instead of one, Compys are on the loose all over the park, The raptors are trying to escape by boat, and the main characters have to travel through a raptors nest!