Mysterious billionaire John Hammond bribes two scientists, paleontologist Alan Grant and paleobotanist Ellie Sadler, come to his new theme park for an endorsement deal. They accept Hammond’s offer of a three year funding for their digs. They are accompanied to the park by a greedy lawyer and an eccentric chaotician. Upon arrival, the guests discover that the theme park is in fact a zoo…featuring dinosaurs from the cretaceous period. An unexpected tropical storm cuts off the island’s power supply, and the exhibits soon become a death trap. With no communication to the mainland, the park’s first visitors must fight for their lives in this bone crunching epic…which really has bite.
Review
Raising the controversial issue of cloning and its moral conflicts, perhaps a bit ahead of its time, this masterpiece still comes up as fresh today as it did when the book was written nearly a decade ago. Chrichton stays true to his technique of medical tie-ins to a science fiction style plot. Jurassic Park stands out among his works and remains one of the defining books of his career. The unexpected moral and philosophical debates between the characters provide intellectual substance to an otherwise superficial story. Jurassic Park covers everything from chaos to Christianity- I strongly recommend this book for any classification of reader.