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Jurassic Park is probably still my favourite popular fiction book ever. I read it when it first came out in elementary school and my classmates were reading Hardy Boys.

The movie was pretty good but a step down from the book naturally, leaving the best bits out (the waterfall scene showed up in the Lost World).

Both the sequel to the book and the movie were terrible. I don't know why Crichton did not build on the suggestion he wrote at the end of Jurassic Park that the procompsognathids had made it to the mainland. And the whole backtracking on the T-Rex not having visual acuity for motion was a bit silly too. It won't hurt you if you stay still in the first one but not the second one? Dumb.

But yeah the original was great. Love the book.