Thoughts on the Jurassic Park novels?
>>24984761crichton is a hack writer, I read some stuff of his and it suckspseudo 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 rigorI agree, but I still love it.
i really loved them when i was a kid and i got into the whole chaos theory thingi 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
>>24984761First 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 closelyHard 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.
>>24984761I've only read the first one, but it's a fun read if you don't take dinosaur adventures too seriously. Crichton attempts to ground what is happening in actual science with some fictional deviations, but some of his gene editing stuff with Wu really goes off the rails like:>Be John Hammond>take your busted ass mosquitos to Wu & Sons Genetic Works, a licensed PA Inspection Station>"Yeah, so, this Velociraptor genome is all busted up, real nasty gaps. I don't even think they make these base pairs anymore">"Lucky for you, we got some OEM frog genes in the back. Direct replacement for your chromosome. Basically the same part for half the price">"Might get some weird effects: only see motion, spontaneously switch sexes and breed in the wild, but hey, QC's a lot better than it used to be."
