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Surprisingly, Jurassic Park.

It's too cynical about the dinosaurs. The novel is aware of what the movie makes you forget: they're not real dinosaurs, they're just lab-created imitations. They appear, they disappear, and it's back to ranting about capitalism and the commercialization of science. The characters are threadbare as well. Michael Crichton himself admitted that he was not good at character writing. Ian Malcolm and John Hammond were entertaining, but Alan Grant had more personality in his opening scene in the movie than he had in the entire novel upon which it was based.

I respect it for laying the groundwork for a movie that I've seen nine times at the theater alone. But, yeah, I wasn't a big fan. The sequel is better, but it's really trying to follow the same tone as the movie and not the first novel. It's a shame because the second movie disregarded 95% of what was in the second book and just did it's own thing anyway.

Jurassic Park (movie) > Lost World (book) > Lost World (movie) > Jurassic Park (book)

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