Log Entry #5: 9/29/10

The film Jurassic Park is quite good, but Michael Crichton’s book is probably one of the best books I have ever read. With in just reading the introduction, I begin to love the book for how it describes the attacks of the infant, it's almost realistic setting, and how it incorporates science that could be plausible. In the movie, they go pretty in depth, but it would be pretty hard to put every aspect the book had into the movie. If the directors did, it might create a very long movie, which could lead to a disliked public opinion. But with saying that, I'm glad to be able to read the book, which seems to be so much more descriptive.  With the book being so descriptive, It gave me the inclination that maybe this could be possible in the very soon future. Crichton does this by including a lot of scientific definitions, explaining chaos theory, and important/interesting characteristics into the book. 


With continuing to read this book, it has begun to frighten me because this book makes it seem that this kind of cloning will occur in the future. Similar situations of the Procompsognathuse attacks that attacked the little girl on the island, could become reality, which could lead to disaster. But the most interesting part about this book, is that it relates much like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. What I mean by this,is that Crichton seems to be warning the people reading his novel that this chaotic dinosaur would could happen again. Similarly, just like how Mary Shelley did with her readers.