Jurassic Park

The movie is much better. I looked forward to this book but it doesn't make much sense. Most characters are naive and just go about their day. People and children missing on an island with dinosaurs on the loose? You would expect panic, but no. It just doesn't seem urgent to anyone.

Lex is annoying beyond believe, she goes from shocked to the core to completely forgetting the danger she is in withing a page. She, Tim, Grant are in great danger, wounded, exhausted, hungry but she's just there being naive. I have no other way to describe it.

The ending is weird, all of the sudden they need to count nests? What for? They've just survived, a lot of people died, and what do they do: crawl into a raptors nest (who all of the sudden don't notice them). It felt like the writer was short of words to finish the book and fabricated this weird ending.

The movie is nothing like the book, it's way better. It's what the book should have been. And, although there are some great parts, the pacing being really good it just doesn't strike as much fear, wonder, shock or desperateness as the movie.