>>24984761
crichton is a hack writer, I read some stuff of his and it sucks
pseudo science garbage all rule of cool with the pretense of status and academic rigor

>>24984773
>pseudo science garbage all rule of cool with the pretense of status and academic rigor
I agree, but I still love it.

i really loved them when i was a kid and i got into the whole chaos theory thing
i can't imagine reading them as an adult but they're good for adolescents. i'd rather they were reading that than harry potter desu

>>24984761
First one good light fun. The film would have been better had it stuck to it more closely.

Second one not so good. The way the first ended (strongly implying Malcom's death) suggests he was never intending to write a sequel.

They were fun, I liked some of the grisly deaths. Had its fair amount of cringe, like Malcolm smoking his own farts for the entire fucking novel.
>>24984909
>The film would have been better had it stuck to it more closely
Hard disagree. Hammond works better as an old fool than a sadistic sack of pondscum on two legs.
Malcolm still gets two or three tangents but they're all relevant to the plot and well-paced. We didn't need more Malcolm.
The biggest and best change was giving Grant an arc. In the book, he doesn't change very much. It's sweet seeing him care for the kids at the end. But the river sequence should not have been cut, fair enough. And the film does gloss over the magnitude of the animals being able to breed.