![]() ![]() ( Full review.)Ĭlick here to visit our “Jurassic Park” Zone.Ĭlick here to visit our Michael Crichton Zone. ![]() Moments and ideas from this novel have been mined all the way up through TV’s “Camp Cretaceous,” allowing Crichton’s legacy to live on. Spielberg’s movie is great, but when read afterward, Crichton’s novel is a smorgasbord of bonus scenes it makes the film seem thin by comparison. Besides, they’ve already been cloned, and it’s not long before the danger is unleashed. With corporate magnate Hammond, paleontologist Grant and stud chaotician Malcolm arguing about the appeal, morality and danger of cloning dinosaurs, we can’t help but buy into it. Yet via Crichton’s prose, it’s magic (just don’t read the DNA stuff too closely). Scientifically speaking, it’s trickery worth scoffing at. The novel races forward, taking the reader on a rollercoaster thrill. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. “Jurassic Park” is different because Crichton makes it plausible that dinosaurs could be cloned. This is Michael Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. Conan Doyle had done it a century before with his “Lost World,” but that was a pulpy adventure. In retrospect, it’s an obvious idea to bring humans and dinosaurs together. ![]()
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