The book is much better than the movie

the ending is pretty bad in the book, iirc the government of costa rica held them as hostages and they were also quarantined, even the kids.

I remember after he gets blinded he feels a sharp pain in his lower abdomen then reaches down and feels his own intestines.

It’s been decades but I remember liking how Grant actually used his dinosaur knowledge to outsmart the raptors toward the end

are you retarded. I read the book like 25 years ago and I still remember how Muldoon crawled into a drainage pipe and proceeded to blast away raptors like a champ. Plus Hammond dying like a bitch made me laugh so hard since he was a huge faggot

>2019
>reading print
go to bed, grandpa

In the book the T-Rex can swim like a crocodile and chase Grant and the kids in the river.
Do you really imagine the T-Rex swimming? He is too fucking fat for and his arms are ridiculous.

Really the whole end part of the book where they go looking for raptor nests was unnecessary.

Best part of the book that wasn’t in the movie was Malcolm’s philosophizing.

Also giving Grant and Ellie a romantic relationship in the movie wasn’t a big deal, but in #3 it made Grant’s whole life seem unnecessarily sad

>but in #3 it made Grant’s whole life seem unnecessarily sad
That was some bullshit

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It is funny how the movies portrayed Hammond as a flawed but ultimately good person (you'd think the guy was Jesus from the way people talked about him in the Jurassic World movies). He was a complete piece of shit and all of his ideas were retarded.

>it is worse than the book.
Isn't that how it always is? It seems really hard to translate anything from one medium to the other without losing some of it's nuances.

>life is a crystal
>are you stoned?

This is usually the case, but sometimes the filmmaker has a better vision than the author makes the story his own (ex pretty much every adaptation of a steven king book).

Ha, I was going to respond with “case in point, the shining”

Yeah, the movie would have been a bit darker had it shown Hammond as the PT Barnum / sleazy corner-cutting corporate type of the book. The movie still retains enough of that concept that you can kind of tell, even if you've never read the book, that when Hammond said "spared no expense" he was full of shit but for the most part it shows him as a kindly grandpa who just made a mistake.

If I remember correctly, in the book Hammond invites all of the experts to the island as a sort of last-ditch attempt to satisfy worried investors, and I think it is plausible to infer that Hammond invited the kids to the island in part because it would make the island seem more safe. Not necessarily because Hammond is consciously a shithead, but because he's sort-of bought into his own bullshit about how the park is safe.

most animals are buoyant to a certain degree and having your nostrils high up your head helps keeping them above water
Elephants can swim as well after all

You still get a sense of it in the movie, when Grant and the grandkids are still in danger, and Hammond starts talking about "next time"

him buying his own bullshit is a large part of his character in the book
like how he's opposed to any further modifications of the dinosaurs because it wouldn't make them "real", when in fact the genetic engineers have already taken so many shortcuts to repair the DNA the end product isn't even close to accurate to begin with

Jurassic Park was cool back in 1993 because it was before CGI was really a thing (yeah there was CGI but it all looked like reboot). The whole shot of them revealing the dinosaurs for the first time really was impressive to an audience who was used to shitty stop motion dinosaurs in movies. Nowadays, thanks to CGI, the movie just isn't as impressive or as great (it's still good). Actually, I really like in Jurassic World where the kids go to the park, and there's all these cool hologram kiosks and shit, with the DNA strand cartoon, and absolutely no one gives a shit, nobody is even remotely surprised by the technology or impressed because it's so fucking mundane now. Anyways, that was the second best part of Jurassic World. The first best part of Jurassic World was Bryce Dallas Howard's plump dumper, so here's a photo of that, you fucking cumbrains.

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Remember when Crichton shitted on climate change hardcore in his novel State of Fear and Spielberg disowned him. Charlie Rose refused to have him back on after he refused to back down that climate change was a globalist scam. The Crichton oddly died. Great book. Genius author. Terminal Man is underrated.

Jaws is another book that is now dismissed as crap compared to the film yet it's a masterpiece. Benchley wrote pageturners nearly on Crichton's level. Add water.

Then he gets to feel the dilo pick him up by the head with its jaws and crush his skull.

I don’t, but sounds about right.

Not really

Doesn't Spielberg speed through filming on every movie, even Indiana Jones?

>watch that Jurassic World movie with Chris Pratt
>originally that intelligent big-ass hybrid dinosaur was supposed to be revealed to be crossed with human DNA
>they pussied out and just made it some gayass lizard and the rest of the movie went to shit at that point
FUCK EM

Bull-fucking-shit. Hammond dying cursing out his grandkids was a totally hamfisted and unnecessary way of making him into the villain the story never needed right at the very end. And do you want to watch a movie with a screaming five year old girl in it? And it's FUNNY for an attorney to be eaten alive on the toilet.

>The Lost World Novel
>Malcolm and the convoy make it to the edge of the forest looking for Levine
>Rex comes out of nowhere
>notices strange vehicles in its turf
>proceeds to squat on top of hood of offroad suv or whatever it was
>rubs its cloaca side to side across hood
>white filmy substance left behind
>"It was marking its territory."
>mfw

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If it swam like a crocodile it wouldn't need the arms just the tail and legs.

>”He should never have brought those kids. They had been nothing but trouble from the beginning. Nobody wanted them around. Hammond had only brought them because he thought it would stop Gennaro from destroying the resort, but Gennaro was going to do it anyway.”

I see a bunch of Crichton books at the local 2nd hand store but pass right by in search of Jack Reacher. Any remarkable Crichton books I should keep an eye out for the next time?

The Andromeda Strain, Congo, and Sphere are all pretty good.

>come to a board about Television & Film
>talk about a book

Yeah, okay.

I see someone else actually read the book as well.

Jurassic Park is one of the rare cases where a film is better than it's source material

Right on. I'll look for them next time I'm out.

I disagree.

yeah but they got to chill out by the pool

Universal's best bet after Jurassic World 3 would be them doing a hard reset on the entire franchise and taking it in a different direction.. Mini series, etc. The only problem Jurassic Park has as a franchise is that Steven Spielberg doesn't want to get one up'd. It's why Jurassic World has been trash and everything else is still so kid friendly.

Steven Spielberg is literally holding the franchise hostage and it's why we'll never get a better adaptation of the book.

I really liked Arnold from the book. In the movie he was a stereotype played by Sam Jackson for some reason who had liked two scenes. He had more personality in the book, and I wished he lived.

>somehow manages to state an incorrect opinion
>steven king
>purports he's a devoted fan
>misspells name
Why did you bother entering this thread if you lack the capacity for intelligent thought? You retards will go to great lengths to chime in on something just to feel like you're part of the group. Go away; you're not welcome here.

Crocodiles have stubby little arms too, you know. Or I guess you'd call them legs too idk.

Dammit I passed on a $1 Congo today

Iirc the only funny line of his they keep in the movie is, "Find Nedry! Check the vending machines!" Whereas in the book he talks at length to basically every major character not trapped in the park, Hammond, Nedry, Muldoon, Wu, Malcolm, Harding, etc....

It’s okay, used books are gross. Go digital

Totally agree. The movie was great but the book really built the world up. More about the Dinosaurs, more about the cloning process, the characters were more distinct, also for some reason Speilberg age-swapped Lex and Timmy for the movie. Originally the girl was the annoying clumsy kid and the boy was the hacker.

>built the world up

Idk why, but this makes it sound like a shitty YA Fantasy novel

What was Michael's problem?

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>there will never be an R rated jurassic park

>Wu
Carpet Pisser?

>In 2006, Crichton clashed with journalist Michael Crowley, a senior editor of the magazine The New Republic. In March 2006, Crowley wrote a strongly critical review of State of Fear, focusing on Crichton's stance on global warming.[125] In the same year, Crichton published the novel Next, which contains a minor character named "Mick Crowley", who is a Yale graduate and a Washington, D.C.-based political columnist. The character was portrayed as a child molester with a small penis.[126]
I never stop laughing at this

You ain’t seen the library senpai

>used books are gross
That may be the most zoomer thing I have ever read.

Yeah, the move left out Rexie's soliloquy.

>I've seen movements you wouldn't believe...
>Clever girls attacking game wardens off the shoulder of the power station...
>I watched sweat droplets glitter in the dark on the chest of Jeff Goldblum.
>All of these embryos will be lost, like a can of shaving cream in the mud.
>Geez...No wonder I'm extinct...

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Where does he purport he’s a devoted fan?

What the movie does really well is have a really cute girl who I crushed on as a little kid.
she grew up to be a really cute woman who is also a terrific painter.

Honestly, I disagree. The book has some scarier, tenser sequences, but it also has some overly long and entirely useless ones, and page after page of Malcom force feeding us Crichton's beliefs. The movie is simply more entertaining.

>that Ian Malcolm rant where he basically says the internet is going to lead to the intellectual death of humanity
10/10 book. The movie did a pretty good job despite cutting a lot. What the fuck went wrong with the sequel? The Lost World is arguably better than the first, how did they fuck it up so badly?

Sphere is fucking great, if you enjoy Event Horizon, which if you're on Yea Forums you most definitely do, you'll find Sphere really similar

Sphere was also one of the better movie adaptations despite making the twist far too obvious.

Lost World is such a garbage movie. Crichtion wrote the book with the forethought of it being turned into a movie, so he included some fantastic action scenes that go unused in the movie. All the movie adds is the final San Francisco scene, which is fun enough in a really dumb, over the top way. But Ian Malcolm has no character, his personality from the previous movie is completely ignored in favor of him just being Jeff Goldblum going where the plot tells him to and not really doing anything

Congo the book is dead tree kino

>Sphere was also one of the better movie adaptations despite making the twist far too obvious.

that's debatable. it tried to stay very close to the source material but some how completely missed the tone of the book. the entity never felt as intimidating as it did in the book. it felt rushed or badly paced. like it wanted to get to the twist as fast as possible.

Anyone else remember the giant dragonfly in the book? It was only in one sentence and it was during a chapter with Grant and the kids, it landed on one of their hands or something and flew off.

>Hello, my name is Harry

Found it kind of lame tbqph

He wasn't hating on global warming for typical normie reasons, he saw it as a change, but he doesn't see change as a bad thing. State of Fear was just the same thing he'd been saying for his whole life, but he wasn't saying it subtly anymore.

When they ask Ian Malcolm why he always wears black in the Jurassic Park book, he gives an answer involving radiation being good for you because it causes change. He basically is fucking Ian Malcolm, it's what we call an author insert.

I agree with Chricton btw. He even came up with a perfect quote for this.

>You are so obsessed with whether or not you could stop global warming you never stopped to think if you should.

It missed the slow pace of the book but that's inevitable unless you make the film really long. It got the characters right and the direction was great. It probably could have used a couple more passes in the editing room to fix the pacing though.

>tfw really enjoyed the first 4 or 5 jack reacher books I read but then over time realized it was the same fucking plotline over and over again

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What would YOU use the Sphere's power for, Yea Forums?

lel

i'm a simple man. live in my own little world with a harem of hot women.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT IT WAS ONLY A BASILISK LIZARD THAT BIT THE LITTLE AMERICAN GIRL

Isn't that what Harry did with the power? At the very least he made it so he wasn't the only black person in the base

Based Crichton taking some faggit down a peg

I don't know, isn't that kind of the point?

>The black guy and the woman end up being the villain due to their self obsessive identity politics
>when given the power to will change into being with the power of thought they immediately use it to make themselves more powerful, more intelligent, and more attractive

Crichton truly was ahead of his time

I love the part where Malcolm is so sure that something has gone wrong in the park that he likens it to someone asking him if income tax would have to be paid on $50,000.
You wouldn’t have to check, you would just know

Wu gets it bad

I forget how it comes to be that the sterile dinos in the book are able to breed. Is it because of the frog DNA sex change "Life, ah, finds a way" bullshit from the movie, or is it given a more plausible explanation?
Something great about the book is how, in part, poorly coded rush job software is a big part of how things go wrong. It was programmed to only count the dinos that were supposed to be there, only giving an alert when there were some missing, So any extra dinos being born went completely unnoticed until it was too late

Dodgson, who has equally brief appearances in both the book and the movie, is the main villain of the sequel novel, and has the most brutal described death of any character in any Crichton novel I've read.

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I think the guy eaten alive by cannibals in State of Fear has it worse but Dodgson's probably #2. Or maybe the jellyfish woman in Sphere.

Eventually my friend, the book is gore-ish enough to pander to normies

It was the frog DNA in the book too. That and they did x-ray shit on gonadal tissue that was apparently untrustworthy. Wu’s efforts to keep them sterile were also undermined by Hammonds unwillingness to let him kill any of the expensive Dinos to dissect.
Also I don’t think the software problems were necessarily a rush job, the real issue was because it was all so secret, they never answered Nedrys questions about what he was doing.

But yeah, the counting scene might be the best part of the book

I try to make reference to how heady that scene is all the time, like when people note how vicious a grounded flock of large birds seems or something, and they don't know what I'm talking about and it's Jew Jew Jew Spielberg Please Don't Rape Me In Front of My Wife, Mr. Stalker Faggot's fault.

The book is always better than the movie.
No exceptions.

Everyone talking about the book like it's the fucking Messiah wasn't there in 1993 when I had to fucking read The Lost World and pretend like Crichton wasn't a hack who mysteriously resurrected Malcolm with no fucking explanation.

No Country For Old Men isn't that good of a book.

>but in #3
That's because there was no 3rd Jurassic Park book.

>no fucking explanation

Literally fuck you money, that's it. Jurassic Park was the biggest movie of all time, so that explains any corners cut with the sequel, money.

He didn't write the Lost World because of Jurassic Park the movie.

I just want an adaptation of Micro already, I know the book was pretty meh but I think it could have a lot of potential as a movie

i remember lots of people not liking it. i remember reading it and hating it right off the bat. just didn't feel like anything he had ever written before. it's an obvious cash grab since jewberg wanted a sequel

sooner or later netflix or amazon will remake it

B A S E D.

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Steven Spielberg still has control over the franchise?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(Crichton_novel)#Background

The success of the movie, and pressure from Fans and Spielberg were what led him to writing the book

>What is LOTR

youtube.com/watch?v=V595oWP5tSE

And apparently no one cared about the book since The Lost World movie is literally nothing like the book.
They didn't even use the main character of the book.

b8.
Lotr books are waaaaaay better than the movies.

I do find it funny that the book gets so condensed and trimmed down into a movie that the 2 children in the book, a white girl and black boy are both combined into Malcolms somehow black daughter.

proved his point

Thread name

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Its pretty sad. With the exception of The Lost World, all Crichton novel movies are good. But Lost World is just a shit adaptation.

Malcolm living needs no fucking explanation because it changes nothing about the first book.

One of the most impactful scores ever in terms of creating the feel of a movie.

Immediately takes me back to being a kid.

>it changes nothing about the first book.

except the part where he slowly dies over the course of the first book, going on philosophical rants high off his ass on morphine

Lost World book and movie sucked

yeah and then he gets saved with everyone else

That's The Lost World, though, which was a huge letdown of a book after Jurassic Park. I imagine that Crichton probably rush-wrote TLW for money after the success of JP.

except for the part where he dies

Even if there were no stand-out pieces, John Williams was still putting out quality work. I love the tribal sound of the movie.
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>The part in the box where they go down the river in a boat and get chased by the swimming T-Rex

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t. alcoholic Maine author
The Shining movie outshines the book

The only part I enjoy is the trek through the island to the radio part. As soon as the literal gymnastics start, it's all downhill.

Did he really deserve it?

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>The part where the T Rex bursts thru the artificial waterfall the kids are hiding behind
>The T Rex wraps his big slimy tongue around Timmy and begins to pull him towards his mouth
>The horror of the situation and the womb like warmth of the tongue gives Timmy a completely calm felling as he's about to be eaten
>He's only saved by the fact that the Tranquilizer shot at the T Rex a while before finally kicks in

The book really is better than the movie

>tfw we will never get grimdark Jurassic Park

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We almost did. James Cameron was going to buy the movie rights but big pedo Steve beat him to it

youtube.com/watch?v=LBTE3aH5gpw

We got about a minutes worth of it, at least

Someone post the vore fic

>Also giving Grant and Ellie a romantic relationship in the movie wasn’t a big deal, but in #3 it made Grant’s whole life seem unnecessarily sad

God out of everything this is what pissed me off the most about the third movie. He just came off as sad and pathetic when it came to Ellie.

woah, that is some vore weird stuff

What others have said is all fair, and also I think in the book it even talks about it walking across the bottom of the lake or river or whatever.

I love his quote from Malcolm talking about how the Earth isn't in danger from anything we could do, we should be more worried about what it can do and WILL do to us.

they nuked it

Jurassic Park a shit.
Posting real best Crichton book.

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The movie is better simply because Malcolm doesn't suddenly turn into Dumbass Crichton and go on a 10-minute "I think engineers suck!" rant.

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The non existent Costa Rican Airforce nuked it no less. Assembling an entire airforce just to send dinosaurs back into extinction hell yea

He just knew that with all the safety features in the park can't compensate for life needing to do it's thing. He knew the Dino's were already breeding and off the island almost the moment he got there and when he had Arnold change the parameters of how the Park counted the animals he had his proof. That whole chapter was fucking gold. With all the tech and calculations the computers could do they were only told to look for how many they had, not how many there were actually. The system was full of human error and the animals getting out and breaking boundaries was always inevitable. The frog DNA was just one of many things but not the single factor

The “life finds a way” narrative also probably applies a lot more to the engineered Lysine deficiency (which I don’t think made it to the film).

The end of the novel says invasive species have been working into Costa Rica, devouring Lysine-rich crops

Here’s your gymnast daughter, bro

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Did Zora? Dinosaurs don't fucking care

Reminds me of this.
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ahem

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>The book is much better than the movie
Wrong

His newer stuff was inferior to his old stuff.

those lips on mah

for me its eaters of the dead, and the antonio banderas movie is kino lads

This one was okay, not as good JP, LW, or Congo. Been thinking of starting Andromeda Strain or Sphere, heard good things about both.

>Is actually a chad in the book
>Is randomly killed by dysentery in the epilogue
What the fuck was Crichton's problem?

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Any of you ever read Prey, Congo or Terminal Man??

I've read Congo many times. Good movie too.

Andromeda Strain and Sphere are must reads. essential

The movie's better

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Even has based Bruce Campbell in it. And Tim Curry.

I've read Congo. Love it.

can raptors open doors in the book

Congo will probably not get a good movie adaptation for many years if it ever does. It's just too hard to create plausible fake apes that look real.

.... have you seen the recent Planet of the Apes movies?

Congo already has a movie adaptation.
And it was good.

>(You)

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Literally King Kong and Planet of The Apes

>Reading comprehension

Also... No, it wasn't.

>Congo will probably not get a good movie adaptation
It did.

This movie introduced me to the works of Michael Crichton, who was an incredible thinker and a great man. Too bad he got heart attack gunned for being too prescient.

>Congo will probably not get A GOOD movie adaptation for many years if...

I know that the average Yea Forums user is clinically retarded, but FUCK

That's right. Double down. No one will notice.

See what you don't seem to realize is that Congo the movie was good. Therefore user's statement was false and retarded.

>Congo already has a movie adaptation

Just stop, man.

youtu.be/AztA3Qj0r4A

So then tell me.
If Congo doesn't have a movie adaptation, what is this?
youtube.com/watch?v=jfgWw43Fcuw

>not reading
lol mutts are so stupid

>mfw we'll never see a proper Congo adaptation with gray gorillas who speak through long low hissing and crush skulls with crude stone weapons.

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Holy shit.
Statement:
>Congo will probably not get a good movie adaptation
Response:
>Congo already has a movie adaptation

Did you suffer from head trauma as a child?

Universal owns the distribution rights to Jurassic Park but Jurassic Park is owned by Amblin, which is Spielberg's company.

The bidding war back in the early 90's was between James Cameron and Steven Spielberg.

Sphere, Congo, Prey, and JP are amazing reads.
Disclosure was way ahead of the #metoo time and its creepy how real the novel feels in today's age.

His autobio is amazing too. Travels.
This guy had an amazing life.

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Do you know how to read?
>Congo already has a movie adaptation
That literally implies that it doesn't.

Nothing beats holding a book in your hands. ebooks are a sin.

name?

Jews will milk it worse than it already is. I want gridmark reboot with 100% science accurate Dino’s. Rex is accurate but raptors need f**thers at least quills on their arms and necks

I didn’t like how dinosaurs were sickly half-failed clones. I like the movies where life finds a way and dinos rule.

even aside from the feathers the jp raptors were fucking huge, Utahraptor size. Scale them back and make them deinonychus sized at the very least

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Prey is fantastic. Really scary shit if the tech is actually developed.

>if
Sweet summer child...

As in nano agents with solar panels, antennas, memory, and propelling systems.

That shit is spoopy.

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She looks like that woman from the flat earther documentary on the netflix

It's been many years since I read any but Prey, Timeline, and Sphere were all page turners for me.

I always hated this. I get that it's a cool line but if the raptor was actually a clever girl then she wouldn't have revealed herself in the bushes and waited a few seconds before pouncing.

I knew what you meant, fren. I know that as a civilian you cannot be properly aware of the state of technology in 2019, but you should probably be scared.

You hated it because you never skipped leg day.

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And were Muldoon an experienced hunter, he wouldn't have wasted time making a quip.

Like tree trunks. This pic also reminds me of the Laura Dern crush I had when I was a kid after seeing this.

Explain. Nano-tech is fascinating.

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like a lizard does? They don't use their arms to swim, they just kinda slither in the water

Don't ask too many questions or you're going to be sorry.

>That one passage where Muldoon and Gennaro are in the jeep and Muldoon explains that the dinos are freaks out of time and nature, with incredibly tough hide, unnatural tenacity and a primitive nervous system that's sort of like a roach's, decentralized so not even a headshot is a guaranteed kill and the only way to put them down for good is to blow them to pieces

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In the book, the dinosaurs were just a plot device so Crichton could criticize genetic engineering and science. Spielberg turned it into "dinosaurs are fucking cool, bro". Though that's not really a bad thing.

what twist? That the 'sphere' was themselves? How was that obvious?

Ever wonder why Michael Crichton just fucking died?

the people making her look attractive in movies are wizards

Roadside picnic is really good and while i love the movie STALKER it deviates so much from the book you can barely call it an adaptation.

member this commercial?
youtube.com/watch?v=1CDAGQPc2bk

Naw, they were literal deinonychi until Crichton decided the name wasn't scary enough and went with velociraptor. They aren't even close to the size of a utahraptor

It's called Worldstar

...

>nobody mentions this kino

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It didn't swim, it literally walked in the river

It's so awesome.

Why is Yea Forums so much better at book discussion than Yea Forums?

Because we read as a hobby and not as a status symbol?

so you haven't read Pynchon since the age of 8? fucking pleb

youtube.com/watch?v=BJx40OOrNFg
prepare for scorekino

whats the plot?

>Nowadays, thanks to CGI, the movie just isn't as impressive or as great

There have only been half a dozen movies since with better CGI monsters.

Yep. Crichton seemed to not be as interested in the dinos as he was interested in corporate sleaziness and organizational failure. And that's not a bad thing.

THEN WHY DID SHE DRAW A PICTURE OF A DINOSAUR, DOCTOR?!!

I agree, while i love the film, the book is still better.
But the second film is better than the second book.

You guys have convinced me to get into his books, I just ordered Jurassic Park, I'm going to get one more.

Kongo, Andromeda Strain, Sphere, or Eaters of the Dead? I have no idea what any of those four stories are about except for what I read in this thread.

I've always been partial to Andromeda Strain.

That's all the convincing I need, I'll buy it now. Neat.

Holy shit, dude. I can't even tell what the fuck you are trying to prove anymore. You have some sort of nuclear mega-*next-level autism or something where you cannot even admit that you misread something and instead you are attempting some sort of autism d-day.

I find the Stalker franchise really interesting, because other than the broadest concept of the setting (which still varies widely in its background and nature between each entry), the book, movie, tabletop RPG, and video game have barely anything in common.

I want to see the little elephant he had made that could be carried around in a cat carrier.

Also,
>nedry (book) did nothing wrong

If I actually have to buy a book, it'll be physical because fuck buying an ebook lmao are you retarded just get it for free online
BUT
>go into swanky bookstore in pricey part of town
>sci-fi/fantasy section
>looking to pick up Dune
>find copy, pick it up and read the blurb on back
>all going well
>now have to indulge my compulsion: thumb fan pages of book in face to get that book-smell
>some smell nice
>some smell of cockroach (old delrays)
>some smell neutral
>whatever
>Dune smells like actual SHIT
>blasted in face with shit smell
>recoil
>lean in to see if it was just my imagination
>nope; dune smelled like shit
>turns out there were dark stains right about where your two thumbs would be if you held the book open to read any random page
>some shitty-handed motherfucker had held Dune before me
>go to toilet, wash face and hands for 10mins
>never go back to that bookstore
I did read dune though.
Ever since this event I have been wary of bookstores.
I never had any qualms about them my entire life.
Never had it even occurred to me that buying shit that others could touch and finger with their shit covered hands might not be the best way to shop.
I was innocent before I ventured into that shop that day, I left bitter, disgusted and disillusioned.

Thank god for ebooks and piracy.

>that part where they introduce Red's daughter
>thought it was cute that they cqlled her monkey as a fun little nickname
>it finally hit me

is she some kind of space alien?

No, she's a mutant. Forget about having normal children if you're a stalker, they'll come out qs mutanys who most people won't even say are human. Red's daughter is described as an ape-like creature with golden hair who was fairly active and normal at a young age but who gradually grew into a secluded and non-talkable entity.
Red''s father also rises up from the grave and comes live with him in his house around this time because fuck it. The book's very good.

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I've been reading it; I was just confused as to whether or not Red had a cute mutant daughteru

They keep it vague at first but in the later chapters is fairly obvious that she's actually a freak of nature. I liked that the book didn't outright tell you though, it's something that you just couldn't do in any other medium. You could kinda guess based on Red's wife's reaction when talking to him about being pregnant but you could write that off as having the child of an stalker and being overwhelmed.

Not at all. Poor guy gave it his all to save Malcolm & the rest.

The recent Crichton books I have read have been State of Fear, Airframe and Rising Sun. I am currently reading Disclosure. I can suggest both State of Fear and Airframe. Rising Sun is also good but so is the film so you might as well watch that although its slightly different than the book

I went and finally read JP some time last year because of talk about the book this or book that.
Are all his books pretty much like this?
I mean, I'm not looking for pretentious Yea Forumserature or anything, but I just wasn't all that impressed.
It was like reading something from the in-flight readers digest or some shit. Is it just the plots that people like?

If memory serves, there wasn't a difference in classification when JP was written for those two. It wasn't until after the book came out that they were split into two species.

Thats my favourite quote from the book as well, and hes completely right when he says it

Care to list them?

The worst place to talk about something is wherever you are supposed to talk about it.

Dinosaurs aren't real, retard. They can do whatever the writer wants them to do.

Michael Crichton is an anti science hack.

I lost interest halfway.

This was a fucking roller coaster user

God damn but the Brits do build great motorcycles.

I read this book as a child, about 8-10 years old, after seeing the movie. There's a scene where a bunch of tiny dinosaurs eat a baby. It was horrible, this is the worst experience with any form of media that I can remember.

I couldn't get into Andromeda strain

>Duuurrr dur durrrrr hurrr durrr

Yeah, but Spielberg identified with Hammond, hated Gennaro for the crime of wanting the park to be safe and was starting to see Muldoon as problematic.

I hated the lost world desu I've read it twice now and I'm not sure why

you queer

>Arab explorer joins up with a bunch of vikings
>They go to the viking homeland which is under attack by mysterious cave-delling creatures.
After that it becomes Beowulf

Look, I enjoy Congo as a B movie but the book itself was way, way better than the movie we got.

Based Muldoon: the book and raptor nest
absolute kino. glad to see patrician taste

Didn't they use animatronics instead of cgi?

I prefer the movie version of Hammond because I think Richard Attenborough was a fantastic actor and I think he's a much more tragic and interesting figure in his portrayal rather than slimey Mr Burns from the book.

Other than that I think the book is no better or worse than the movie, just different. I do wish more of Malcolm's philosophy made it into the movie but eh, the movie was going for a much different tone to the more contemplative/philosophical tone of the book.

The Lost World book was trash though. It's even worse than the movie.

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Makes me wanna cry lads :/

So that's where that's from.

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It did give us chameleon carnotaurus though, so there's that.

fuck
I feel old

Doesnt he do that in the second book? Wtf?

Well Hammond probably paid of the Costa Rican government in order to let him build Jurassic Park, what the fuck do you think they would spend that money on? Roads and schools or bad ass nuclear bombers?

>when in fact the genetic engineers have already taken so many shortcuts to repair the DNA the end product isn't even close to accurate to begin with
Actually it turns out they were pretty close, since the dinosaurs can breed.

>movie is worse than the book
Holy shit bro, what a hot fucking take, it's almost as if Directors are fucking terrible at exposition and internal dialogue and something massive is always lost in translation. I wonder if there are any other book adaptations that are much better as books. Hmmmm....

>There was a second, larger and more lush island with an entirely massive infrastructure, dedicated staff, staff village, roads and power grid that was designed literally only for the purpose of actually breeding the dinosaurs where they'd then be shipped over to a smaller island on the same chain to be put into a pen.

Isla Sorna is such a fucking retarded idea. I get why they did it for the book since Nublar got IT AINT' ME'd but the Lost World movie would have had a more kino setting in the overgrown decaying ruins of the park.

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Dude weed while watching congo was one of the funniest experiences in recent years for me. I fucking love that movie.

>creeping past the sleeping T-rex
>lex sneezes and wakes it up
I love this shit, so corny and yet so good at building tension

There's that scene where they check on the triceratops that's sick and they mention the genetically encoded lysine deficiency.

>The Lost World book was trash though. It's even worse than the movie.
Fuck off it was great

When do we get an adaptation of the book he died for?

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>not reading

sub humans really are the worst

Not really. You'd need a large facility to pump out all the iterations of genetic trials to get to a working product. You think they could do all that research in a theme park?

When climate change is not real (never)

State of Fear is probably one of his worst books simply because he had to dig specifically for evidence that is against Climate Change.
When a Sci-Fi author has to ignore massive amounts of information in order to tell their story, there are some issues there.

One shitty experience ruins used books for you, what a giant baby

>Isla Nublar (Cloud Island)
>Isla Sorna (Sarcasm Island)

Michael Crichton was an unbelievable hack and brainlet. All his books are just a Magic School Bus episode except there's sex and violence so that somehow automatically makes it mature. I read the one which literally has a shrink ray that makes people tiny in it and couldn't believe someone unironically marketed this towards adults.

Go home steve

>Give an Arab a sword, and he makes a knife
>When you die, can I give that to my daughter?
13th Warrior was such a great fucking film

EBIN.

90% of Stephen King adaptions are garbage but the great ones are often better than the books, yes.

wasn't a used book cunt
learn to read
what a giant mongoloid

now kiss the autist, its clear you two have chemistry

*One shitty experience ruins books for you, what a giant baby*

I'm still pissed at how they pretty much flat out reversed the business mogul characters from JP and Congo. Hammond was a scumbag with a tiny elephant. The guy in Congo was a genuinely good person who insisted on full insurance policies for foreign hires and wept when his staff died. It was the scientist cunt who put money and research above human lives, and the guy with the gorilla (Peter?) had no chemistry with her at all in the book. But, y'know, men are mean and women are sweet angels with no flaws.

Underrated.

AH ATE A BAABY

Is Sphere the movie where everyone slowly starts to lose their minds? I remember seeing a movie when I was younger where people are under the water in a sub of some sort (or a base) and one of the characters is reading 20,000 leagues under the sea and at one point tens or hundreds of copies of it pour out of a locker he opens.
That's all I remember about the movie and I've been trying to find it since.

>Andromeda Strain is not in my local library
I want to read it frens

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This thread got me in the mood for some Crichton so I pirated a dozen of his books. I've only read the two Jurassic Park books before. I've narrowed it down to Congo, Timeline and Dragon Teeth.

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Yep, that's the one.
I saw it recently (like you, I've only seen it as a kid on tv) and it was a pretty decent movie.

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>”He thing about these damn Dinos,” Muldoon said, “is that they have distributed nervous systems. They don’t die fast, even with a direct hit to the brain. And they’re built solidly; thick ribs make a shot to the heart dicey, and they’re difficult to cripple in the legs or hindquarters. Slow bleeders, slow to die.”

Damn, thanks man.

anyone got a good link for pdf's of Crichton's work? I'd like to read Congo and Jurassic Park

Just download it.

What websites do you use? epdf.pub seems to have a lot of books.

*film adaptation
The TV adaptations are almost universally dogshit

I don't want to read from a screen, i want a physical book.

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gen.lib.rus.ec

I read this book when it first came out and gave a book report on it to my teacher.

I could tell she thought the concept was retarded.

The Godfather.
The book has a weird fixation about character's genitals and has an entire chapter dedicated to a minor character getting vaginal reduction surgery that comes out of nowhere and has no relevancy to anything else in the story.

Thats really sad :(

I remember reading that. Also Johnny Fontane's sex adventures in Hollywood.
But pretty much anything was just like in the movie, it was pretty faithful.

My mom asked them for a few extra empty fry boxes that hadn't had fries put them in yet because she knew Jurassic Park was gonna be big and she wanted to have a valuable collector's item.

They still have them in their basement.

>ignore

Cute

Why doesn't she cash those babies in?

I didn't enjoy this at first. But after watching the movie version, I realized the book actually did good work as sequel. Still, T-Rex on San Diego was one of the best thing coming out of this series

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True kino.

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Ha, I remember that, back when McDonald's was good and feared nobody.

like all the scientists who ignore massive amounts of data so they can skewer evidence towards proving global warming while shunning any scientist who presents the unfiltered data. Thinking you are anywhere near as smart as Crichton because you memorized reddit talking points you saw in a youtube video, while he poured through the data and spoke with actual scientists. fuck outta here.

Same reason why we're better at anime discussion than Yea Forums
I imagine Yea Forums is better at discussion television and movies than we are, IDK

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unironically had to lie down
almost passed out

This scene in Jurassic World made me feel like shit. It's like the ending of Jurassic Park is pretty peaceful. The proverbial storm is over, humans have evacuated, and now the dinosaurs have the island to themselves where life in nature goes on. I know my pic is from Lost World, but you get the idea. Now 25 years later, let's go BACK to the island of things you know, only to blow it up. All the dinosaurs you grew up with are dead. Wow, thanks. Feels real great, man.

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>T-Rex on San Diego was one of the best thing coming out of this series
NO

Fun fact : Spielberg got the rights one hour before Cameron

Would've been great to see how he would've handled this