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Finished Jurassic Park.
Mar. 6th, 2003 01:36 pmGood book, yesss 0__o. Had me hooked enough to finish it in... one week XD. Well, I was sick for the whole week so maybe it shouldn't count, but anyway, 7 days is better than normal ^__-.
Everyone knows about the Jurassic Park movie. Very good movie, indeed 0_o. Of course the book had to differ from the movie, the movie didn't *substantially* differ, though... I was confused a lot in the book because of ALL the characters and keeping track of who did what and who got eaten. Basically... the main differences were that in the movie, far fewer characters got eaten , and there were generally less characters. My favorite character died ;_;. Ian Malcom, the mathmatitian. I'm not sure he was even in the movie. He'd better have been !I think I'm gunna watch the movie over again... I know for a fact that Hammond didn't die in the movie, though 0_o... Hammond was given quite a character in the book... Another difference I noticed was that in the book, the children were much different 0_o. Lex was SUCH an incredibally annoying little twit, while Tim was calm, helpful, and managed to get power on in the park to save lives of the people 0_o. Meh, I need to watch the movie again XD. There was also the incredibal scientific backround. That amazed me most about the book. I saw Jurassic park when I was 8 years old, too young to remember any of that stuff, but the book... whoaa 0__o. I mean, talking about how they bred the animals and the eggs and characteristics of the dinosaurs, the man did his research!
Then there was Ian Malcom's philosophy... I hate math, but admired the cocky mathmatitian in the novel. Malcom predicted that the park would fall right from the start because of "chaos theory". He rambled on and on about so many philisophical ideas that my head spun XD. But I think I got the jist of it. I'd be happy if I just quoted all his ramblings right here... Then on his death bed, he started on about how science was bringing down man kind. And I was blown away 0___o. Really makes me think.
Some things I didn't like about it were that half the book they were running away from either a T-Rex or Velociraptor 0_o. The technicalities of the computer models were confusing.. but I'm sure some readers appreciated them ^_^*. I'll save the summary. Instead move to the...
~~QUOTE OF THE MOMENT~~
"Science is the beief system that is hundreds of years old. And like the midieval system before it, science is starting to not fit the world anymore. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, , but it cannot tell us how to use it. And out world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways-air and water, and land- because of ungovernable science"
~~Ian Malcom,
Jurassic Park
Everyone knows about the Jurassic Park movie. Very good movie, indeed 0_o. Of course the book had to differ from the movie, the movie didn't *substantially* differ, though... I was confused a lot in the book because of ALL the characters and keeping track of who did what and who got eaten. Basically... the main differences were that in the movie, far fewer characters got eaten , and there were generally less characters. My favorite character died ;_;. Ian Malcom, the mathmatitian. I'm not sure he was even in the movie. He'd better have been !I think I'm gunna watch the movie over again... I know for a fact that Hammond didn't die in the movie, though 0_o... Hammond was given quite a character in the book... Another difference I noticed was that in the book, the children were much different 0_o. Lex was SUCH an incredibally annoying little twit, while Tim was calm, helpful, and managed to get power on in the park to save lives of the people 0_o. Meh, I need to watch the movie again XD. There was also the incredibal scientific backround. That amazed me most about the book. I saw Jurassic park when I was 8 years old, too young to remember any of that stuff, but the book... whoaa 0__o. I mean, talking about how they bred the animals and the eggs and characteristics of the dinosaurs, the man did his research!
Then there was Ian Malcom's philosophy... I hate math, but admired the cocky mathmatitian in the novel. Malcom predicted that the park would fall right from the start because of "chaos theory". He rambled on and on about so many philisophical ideas that my head spun XD. But I think I got the jist of it. I'd be happy if I just quoted all his ramblings right here... Then on his death bed, he started on about how science was bringing down man kind. And I was blown away 0___o. Really makes me think.
Some things I didn't like about it were that half the book they were running away from either a T-Rex or Velociraptor 0_o. The technicalities of the computer models were confusing.. but I'm sure some readers appreciated them ^_^*. I'll save the summary. Instead move to the...
~~QUOTE OF THE MOMENT~~
"Science is the beief system that is hundreds of years old. And like the midieval system before it, science is starting to not fit the world anymore. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, , but it cannot tell us how to use it. And out world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways-air and water, and land- because of ungovernable science"
~~Ian Malcom,
Jurassic Park
