#6 in Thriller
Jurassic Park
- 451
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Film 1993
- On screen
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Our view
Crichton turns a warning about genetic engineering into a fast, tense survival story that reads easily for all its 451 pages. The dinosaurs alone supply much of the fun. Some readers find a few exchanges between characters dated, Malcolm too fond of lecturing on chaos theory and the closing stretch adrift from the central plot. A safe pick for anyone after smart, accessible entertainment.
Worth knowing Universal bought the film rights for Steven Spielberg before the book was even published in 1990. The novel is darker and more technical than the 1993 film: John Hammond is a ruthless businessman, and Ian Malcolm’s chaos theory drives the argument. Crichton followed it with The Lost World (1995), the only sequel he ever wrote.
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About the book
Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton; it is a cautionary tale about genetic engineering that presents the collapse of a zoological park which showcases genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real-world implications. A sequel titled The Lost World, also written by Crichton, was published in 1995.
Reading order · Jurassic Park
Full order & progress →- Jurassic ParkThis book
8.28.2 / 10 - The Lost World
7.57.5 / 10
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmJurassic ParkIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 2,551 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 95% of the weight and the score stays at 8.2 — the Thriller average of 7.6 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.4 | 200 | 8% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 40 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 2.3K | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Jurassic Park?
It has 451 pages — longer than 54% of the ranked books in Thriller.
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