Sunday, December 2, 2018

12 meses 12 libros: November: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

This one is late too, but slightly less late than the last few months, lol.  Give me a break, doing the best I can, guys.

Anyways, November's theme was best sellers.  I actually had trouble deciding on a book for this month... part of it was that I mixed up the themes for November and October, lol, and part of it is that both of those themes were very broad.  That can give you a lot of freedom, but it also doesn't give you any ideas where to start.  But there's a copy of Jurassic Park at our library, I like the movie (and dinosaurs, of course) so I thought I may as well give this book a shot!






(Is this wrap around cover not absolutely cool and gorgeous??? Wow.)

I really enjoyed this book a lot!  I will admit, though it was well written and I liked it a lot, and it was good from the start, it did take it a while to really get going.  For that thrilling fast pace to kick in. It's similar to but different from the movie, and I can't really say which is better (they're both great in their own ways), but I think some of the characters are better in the book.  Lex is the only one I can think of right off that was less enjoyable in the book (she whines a lot... if you did a drinking game and took a shot every time she said, "I'm hungry!" or "I'm tired!" you'd die of alcohol poisoning).  But this was a super exciting story, kind of dark, really cool. I'm glad I took a chance on it.

I also reviewed this book here on my goodreads page.  Follow me there for more regular updates on what I'm reading and occasional reviews!

I started reading this book on November 24th and finished it on December 2nd.  I read about half of it and listened to about half of it as an audio book.

Bottom line, would I recommend this book? Definitely, especially if you like the movie or just dinosaurs in general.

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