Why Everyone Needs To Read The Jurassic Park Books 

Jurassic Park and The Lost World novel are truly the best books I've ever read. Horror, suspense and thriller, you name it.

The first book was great for how it showed how the nuts and bolts of the park weren’t anywhere near airtight. Ellie noticing bars added to windows that aren’t on plans she’s seen, the triceratops habitat having berries that are poison to them and indeed the visitors centre having not visitor friendly plants, not to mention the whole backstory behind Nedry and how he was embittered to work against Hammond. I absolutely love the scene in the book where it’s learned that the reason the dinosaur population has always been recorded at max expected is because the count was capped at that. Once the cap is removed and the actual population figures come in, chilling. It’s a fantastic way to show how computers will only do what they’ve been told, no intuition for when something is fishy unless it’s been specifically coded in, and how out of control the dinosaur population has become.

I remember reading the books and loving them over the movie. I love the moment where Grant is rolling poisoned eggs toward raptors for them to eat.

Because Michael was an incredible writer and your imagination when reading will always be better than the movies

Thanks to your channel I actually got my hands on the books, and it's like I'm reading a completely new insight into the world and the story. It's such a shame Crichton can't continue with the books.

One thing about the Jurassic World trilogy is that doesn't feel like the Park films with how it's shot. It looks more like a Marvel film than it does Jurassic. Also the new dinosaurs look more like they came from Peter Jackson's King Kong than JP.

Reading Michael Crichton's work is really what inspired me to start writing my own novels. His thoughts on science and many other things in his novels is what made me look past all the cool action scenes in Jurassic Park and actually see the real meaning is behind it. It is sad to see how under rated he is nowadays and I definitely agree that the movies need to go back to the novels and take themselves more seriously. I've probably read the first novel over ten times now, I just love it so much:)

I read the novels back to back, 13 times and they are more darker and violent than the movies themselves, where they have several deleted scenes and characters that would have made the final cut.

I agree with EVERYTHING you’ve said. I’ve read The Lost World and JP six times in order and I’m now reading through JP for the first time in 3ish years and I swear I pick up something I didn’t notice that ties into the Jurassic World movies as well as the original trilogy. The Lost World book is honestly my favorite book by Michael Crichton (I’ve read them all). Thanks for the constant River Ride of content man!

These books are amazing and definitely a must read for Jurassic fans or fans of science fiction great video klayton.

I love the first book. It's probably the best book I have ever read and might be my favorite book ever. As for Lost World, I didn't finish that one because to me it was nowhere near as exciting as the first, but I do want to finish it eventually.

I reread the first novel a few weeks ago for the 30th anniversary of the film. I'll probably reread The Lost World at some point this summer. The first one in particular is truly one of the greatest sci fi novels of all time.

Exactly! The novels are awesome, Michael Crichton truly made something special! Read it guys! You will appreciate the franchise even more and as well understand it on a much deeper level!

After watching this, I have to read The Lost World for the fourth time! Thanks for the awesome video, Klayton!

Came right when I got notified Klayton! I definitely agree that everyone should read the Crichton novels or Atleast the first one due to Lost Worlds book and movie being so different! I love the first book with the extra dinosaur attacks, juvenile T. rex, and of course the ending where Nublar is bombed!

I just finished reading the book with my friend for the third time. I love JP books. Subtle things, it’s fun. Just…. So different. It’s a whole different world.

Listening to your dramatic retellings of scenes in the books already convinced me to. Two more books to add to the unread pile I have 😂

A good idea for your channel, and I think other subscribers would enjoy, is you should do an audio book reading of the books. Like 5 chapters per video, I feel you’d do an amazing job of bringing the book to life with your passion for the Jurassic Park franchise. You could even do follow up videos discussing the chapters you read, like what you enjoy, how’d you incorporate scenes into new films or changes scenes that were adapted for the films.

I'm a student filmmaker and I've always wanted to create a TV series faithfully based on the books. There's so many ideas from the books left unused in the films. It'll have to be a TV series simply because making another film adaptation would immediately spawn hate from people who grew up with and adore the original films. I myself grew up with JP3 and I know many people dislike and whatever, but it was my favourite as a kid as I terrified by Spinosaurus and the new variants of Velociraptors. I'd love to see a TV series adaptation that faithfully retells the events that take place in both books. Be great to see a book accurate John Hammond and more accurate looking Dinosaurs (using the knowledge of today's discoveries - multicolored feathered Velociraptors would be awesome!). Thanks for making this video man, been trying to get my classmates to read both books. I read the books when I was 9 years old and I remember reading the first chapter of Jurassic Park and thinking "Holy shit, this sounds like it's gonna be a heck of a lot more gruesome than the films!". I've read my copies of the books so many times they are falling apart!

I've read and re-read Jurassic Park since I was in middle school, and some scenes, some sequences, still get me even to this day, decades later. I was listening to the audiobook while knitting a couple weeks back, and actually had to stop the playback and let my heart calm down at the reveal of the power to the fences being down. I knew it was coming. AND STILL IT GOT ME. For those of you still on the fence about reading the books, think of writing that effective and tense.

Pretty Interesting Video of The Jurassic Franchise and why people should read the Jurassic Park Books from Michael Crichton and thanks to Michael Crichton and that’s how some dinosaur fans are in love with the Jurassic Franchise especially with Jurassic Park and Jurassic World and very amazing for Jurassic June in 2023 and pretty awesome facts of the Jurassic Park books compared to the movies and not to mention with Camp Cretaceous and great work analyzing the books counterparts compared to the movies and at least we got the movies, Camp Cretaceous and some media that is like Jurassic Park from 1993 and the franchise. Great work on this Klayton Fioriti and as always, Take It Easy and Life Would Definitely Find A Way with this for this Jurassic June in 2023.

A mini series based directly on the books would be amazing

Hell yeah, a brand new Klayton video!

The two Jurassic books are easily in my to 10 of books and I also highly recommend his other book “Dragon Teeth”, it’s a historical fiction book about the hunt for Dinosaur bones

I agree with you totally. if I remember rightly, didn't Trevarrow state that he'd not read any of the books, or seen any of the earlier films before doing the last two? because, sadly, it shows. Both of Crichtons books are awesome, but The Lost Word is absolutely amazing. we need a book(s) version on screen, film-makers seem to forget that grown-ups love dinosaurs too!

You know what, I will. Thank you for the recommendation. Have a good day 👍.

You and your channel is the reason I picked the books up! The audio books are always my go to for road trips! They are absolutely some of my favorite books.

Johns death makes yasminas reference to how does by comps made more sense

I’ve never read the books. My mom told me they are terrifying and your channel has been awesome when describing how different the books are and how amazing they are. Maybe one day I’ll get them and check them out.

I’ve read JP and TLW several times since I was 12 and they’re such good stories. Michael Chriton was a master of the Sci-Fi realm. A one to one movie adaptation of the books would be amazing, but it would absolutely be R rated. From Nedry getting disemboweled, to Eddie Carr getting torn apart to Genaro and Muldoon blowing a Raptor’s leg off, the books were DARK, but that is part of what made them so good

I'm actually getting through the first novel and man oh man, I LOVE IT. I got Barnes & Noble's special hardcover edition which also contains The Lost World. The more horror tone throughout, the way it builds up suspense, more dinosaurs (including my favorite, Stegosaurus), and different portrayal of some of the characters.

The Lost World. The 1st book I ever read. While my dad was at Hospice with Cancer. It was my escape from reality. But as an animal lover I appreciate the argument that these "animals" are living breathing beings and not just corporate property. The movies made thst argument beautifully.

The books are great! Specially The Lost World! I always love that part of investigation of MalColm and Levine to find Isla Sorna, and then Prep out for the Excursion with the Professor and Eddie. Man! How could they not do this in a movie or series yet! Let unknown characters discover that something survive far away (excluding the Dominion end, of course)

I literally just started the Jurassic Park Novel last week & I’m loving it immensely so far. Crazy timing for this video

The novels are awesome. I tried reading them when I was a kid because I was obsessed with JP. I just understood the dino scenes but most of the themes and scientific commentary went over my head. As a teenager I re-read them and loved them more than the movies. As an adult, the first novel in particular is a masterpiece.

It's funny you posted this video today because I literally just finished reading the Lost World today. Loved it. Loved them both. My favorite novels.

You’re channel has made me re fall in love with dinosaurs!

I'd love to see a TV series that follows the books closer.

Jurassic Park and The Lost World got me into reading as a 12 year old in 2008. I could never remember the first time I saw the first JP film. It was kinda like a family member, it just always there. But I vividly the day I bought that paperback from Borders, I was never the same. I read it on a beach and on a car ride through the jungles of Puerto Rico and then on the mangroves of the east side of the island. It was unbelievably immersive for the young boy I was then. I remember how sad I was when I got to the ending, when Jurassic Park got napalmed by the military. And after finishing that, I couldn't wait for Lost World. Lost World was an even bigger surprise for me. Tragically, I discovered, that same year Michael Crichton had died. And it was devastating to me when I found out. Regardless, they opened up a whole new world for me and it changed my life.

I listening to both the books on Spotify last summer and I really enjoyed the scare moments, although I didn’t always enjoy the human characters the same way u enjoyed their film counterparts. If they plan on making more films/series they should same kind of terror the books had.

I actually watched some of your videos covering portions of the novels a few weeks back and they inspired me to pick up the first book and give it a shot. I’m still going through it, but man, it’s a truly amazing read and it’s so cool to see where this franchise started! Definitely is making me wish that Dominion and other movies in the series took more from it!

This is why I prefer to read the Jurassic Park books of Michael Crichton

You are 100% correct. Anyone who loves the movies but has read them needs too. I did like 2 years ago and they were both fantastic! Made me love the franchise even more I think.

I had the audiobook on last night while I slept. My favorite part of the first book is the motion sensor tracking part where they start looking for more than the expected number and realize they fucked up

I've been re-reading the books once per year since I was 9 when the first movie came out. Little touches that you can't really nail in a movie keep bringing me back, like how Grant notices the extra security bars hastily welded onto hotel room windows that weren't in the original blueprints. My favorite monologue in the first one is Malcom expanding on how InGen doesn't respect the power of genetics because they didn't "earn" it; he compares it to a martial arts master learning to NOT recklessly kill people over the years and years it takes him to learn HOW to kill.

Iv seen the first three films more then a 100 times each. Finally at 16 I got the books for my birthday, and i have never read a book that fast in my life. The books are 10× better then the films in every way. Now i still love the films with my heart, but the books are so good. I can't describe it in words

The best parts of the books is that they actually provide very interesting insights into scientific and philosophical concepts.

I have not heard/thought about Land Before Time in a very very long time. What a blast from the past with that Little Foot reference. More importantly this was a great video! And I’ll take your advice and read Crichtons books.

I love JP and I love your content buddy. Some of my guys have all been reading the book together and having a blast. Thanks for your content buddy. It’s great.

The books were great. I happened to read the Lost World first, translated into my native language, as a kid. It helped a lot that it was one of the best... no, the best novel translation I've ever read. Adapting just enough to take use of differences in the languages, and thus keeping the narration feel right and vivid but still Crichton. Later on I learned how much harm a bad translation can do, as many of similar top sellers are read translated - badly translated - world-wide. Having since read the original in English twice or so, I still feel the translation matches the telling of the original - likely the only novel I can state that myself. I can't help wondering how many people worldwide have missed Crichton's storytelling due to bad translations. (I've never read the original JP1 novel except in English, so I don't know how that worked out in my native.)

The Dinosaur horror novel that really needs a faithful film adaptation is "Carnosaur". The Corman film is nothing like the book, the book is essentially a Slasher/monster story with a Deinonycus as the slasher/monster. then the mad scientist/billionaire's private zoo gets unleashed on a village. a Carnosaur reboot could make dinosaurs scary AF again. JP at least stayed close to source, Corman made Carnosaur into some alien knockoff.

I'm writing my own version of the Jurassic park novel with modern Science, and a more chaotic plotline with the Dinosaurs mutating. I don't think it'll be as good,but I'm sure Michael Crichton would love my version.

i read both book a year or two ago and its all because of you. I agree that every fan of the franchise should read the book! so good! Michael Crichton is such a good writer imo. i start reading more of his book.

The thing about the islands being volcanic, I believe it was alluded to in The Lost World by mentioning that the island was run on geothermal power.

The most notable difference between the jurassic park novel and movie is that the book's first half is more of a techno thriller and it doesn't become an island adventure until much later.

The part of the first film compared to the novel that irks me is that Alan and Ellie are awestruck by the dinosaurs and such until shit hits the fan in the film (only Malcolm questions it and he’s a damn mathematician), but in the book, they get there and the wonderstruck feeling dissipates when they get settled in, already seeing the major issues. If I could have been there to help write it (I wasn’t even born until 2 months later), I would have them see the baby dinosaurs and during lunch, Hammond goes off during it, the three talk about the issues after the excitement wears off and Gennaro disagrees with them, maybe storming off. Then Hammond meets up with them as they get ready for he tour, which the kids surprises them, which leaves Alan and Ellie trying to talk about how the park isn’t a good idea, but Hammond rushes them off, blowing off their concerns until after the ride. So by having Hammond basically blinding himself on purpose by his own absurd delusions of grandeur of his creation, the issues the park imposes is being ignored from the professionals that are aware how dangerous this is. I think it would help connect to the message more, especially since it’s really weird it takes them a while to see the threat, despite being knowledgeable in this field within the film.

Just recently brought the first book again to read cause of your videos. Keep up the awesome work

@Klayton Fioriti, I cannot stress enough how much I enjoy and appreciate your channel.

Got my copy back in 2000 on Oahu, Hawaii in a bookstore a few miles away from the Jurassic Park Gallimimus field, the book had both Jurassic Park & The Lost World. The title page says Michael Crichton’s Jurassic World

Klayton after you uploaded this I read both books thank you for this video I thoroughly enjoyed them!

I love listening to the audiobooks for Jurassic Park & the Lost World, they’re my main go to audiobooks. I’d love to see straight film adaptations of the original books.

I read the books like 5 years ago because of your videos about them, best 2 books I've ever read. I absolutely love The Lost World (novel) and wish they adapted that story, still love the movies tho. If anyone hasn't read the JP books, PLEASE do. Even if you arent a big reader (Like me) You will LOVE them.

I NEED to reread the books! The 1st time I was reading them, I believe it was when Grant 1st got back to the control center & he had them run the census. They said it was fine. He told them to turn it up, they found more & more & more. I remember being like, "what? How high is this going to go?!?!!" There were so many parts in the book that got me.

Finished JP book a week ago and right on the prologue conference speech in Lost World book. 😂 Ofc agree with you!

I agree 100,000% klayton! The novels have just about everything. If you want action, you've got action. If you want suspense you've got suspense. If you want horror, you've got horror.

Actually the wife and I are about a little over half through the Lost World. Definitely worth the read. Keep up the good content man.

Hey @KlaytonFioriti Please do an audio book reading of the Michael Chrichton Jurassic Park books. You'd kill it, keep up the great work.

🙂 Thanks to your earlier videos where you would read a couple of bits from the novels, I was motivated to buy both novels. It took me a few months to read the first one (this was back when COVID first hit the US), but I loved it. It took me completely by surprise how dark, extremely graphic, and how different it was from the movie. Idk how he did it, but Michael Crichton was able to keep you in suspense and keep you invested in finding out more about where the characters and story was going. It was like watching a good horror movie. The only thing that made it difficult to understand was the science and technology stuff when it was talking about the computer software, the genetics and dinosaur names (science is not my strong suit) but I still highly recommend the book to anyone. I started reading the second novel but I haven't been able to as far as I like due every day life crap.

I would love to see 1 on 1 movie adaptations from the books. There are some really crazy intense scenes that I would love to see on the big screen.

I haven’t read the first book but picked up the Lost World on the kindle recently. I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the fact that it was so different.

I have to thank you for convincing me to get and read JP’s Novel. I don’t read novels at all but Micheal Crichton’s JP was such a fun and great book to read. I still have to read The Lost World, gonna get it soon so I can experience what the books offer in all.

I think I need to read the books now

I got a second hand copy of Jurassic Park last year. I started reading it a week before I got shingles. Despite the pain of the shingles I could not help but pick up this book and keep reading. It is such a gripping story and, in many ways, VASTLY superior to the film. But I do love the OG JP movie.The concept is still there...but I would love to see the river chase sequence done like the book.

100% agree. I adore the novels and would love to see more of that content incorporated in to movies or a series. Lost World is my favorite novel and it would be great to see more of that adapted to film. I thought Fallen Kingdom was great and would love to see more of that tone moving forward. Also, what is Extinction by Lynn? Could not find a link for that.

I read the books based on your suggestions in previous videos and they are both vastly different than any of the films. I would be interested in seeing a retelling of the story that follows a combination of the original book and movie with heavy flashbacks to all of the secret work to successfully create the animals and build the park. That might have to be a 2-part film because there's so much, but I think it would be a lot more interesting than Dominion and Fallen Kingdom where they turned the franchise into little more than a Godzilla movie...a bad Godzilla movie.

I remember reading the book in middle school after having seen the first movie as a kid. The difference was shocking, such a good read. Both are fantastic, just the book has so much substance to it, would highly recommend it to anyone who's curious.

I became an enthusiast reader because of Michael Crichton at a very young age, so not long after the movie came out, I read the book, then bought Lost World the day it came out. They are excellent books. The movies became about corporate greed and animal rights because of course they did. They're simplistic ethics, easy to recognize and put on screen and basically no one argues with them. Everyone makes anti-greed movies, it's safe. But defining where screwing with nature goes from an everyday occurrence to a problem is lost on most people. Crichton obviously didn't think it was wrong to build cities or fish, so where' the limit? Is it wrong to plant genetically engineered crops? How about hybrid crops? We use those all the time and had been doing them at the time the novel was written. The complexity of his ethical point came from big-picture biome interactions and environmental fitness, purposefully not bringing in creatures where they didn't fit. A little bit of this makes it into the first movie, with the lunch debate, and the other five movies don't touch it. They mostly became schlock horror. The books are way past what an average movie audience can really grasp. I'll admit that I didn't register the family theme in Lost World. Hey, I was 14. But thinking back, you're spot on. Crichton is still underrated.

65 million years I totally Agree, the Novels are So underrated and everyone Should definitely read the Novels. I also heard before Micheal chrichton died, he was making a Third book. But sadly it was lost in history.

I fairly recently listened too both audio books of jp and lw and man i loved em i havent really read or listened too many real books i have read a pleanty comics and manga but that made these two books being my favorites easy and rightfully so as they were really enjoyable from action too characters and suspense and dont forget the gore and the way it described the gore the smells so great all around

I wish the movie studios had the balls to make an R-Rated version of Jurassic Park for the big screen. Hell make it 4hrs long like The Lord Of The Rings, if the film is good, people will sit and watch.

I've actually been meaning to re-read the original novels for some time now. I honestly _wouldn't_ mind *some* form of a much more faithful adaptation of each novel. Now that certain MCU and DC films have introduced audiences to the 'multiverse' concept, you _could_ probably adapt "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World" more faithfully (I say as TV miniseries myself) and establish them as being in an 'alternate universe' so they don't contradict/conflict with the main film universe.

One of the first books I personally bought as a kid in my language and then few years later bought again in english as well, great stuff!

Because the original novel is more of a horror movie/book than the PG-13 live action adaptations. Not to mention contains scenes that were so intense, that they should have been in the film: The T.rex licking the windshield of the car with the kids inside. Sigh of a killer. I hope the franchise gets rebooted & Becomes a horror franchise with James Cameron Writing & directing it

Hey Klayton, would you be willing to live-read the novels in an abridged fashion? something like Alt Schwift x does with the Asoiaf series. I would love to hear direct input about the novel itself and the amazing level of detail that they give. I think it would also help people who are not good readers to be exposed to these novels. Cheers! Love the content

“Imitation never beats the real thing” -Zenowing, Power Rangers Dino SuperCharge episode 15 ‘Wings of Danger’.

They also have audiobook versions on here as well. Usually go through both books back to back every 3 months while at work

I re-watched Jurassic Park III and it was so bad it was actually fun, I had a good time, because the movie is generous and sincerely tries. I don't have time to waste on the Jurassic World movies, they really thought of them like roller coasters, it transpires in the trailers.

Completely agree with you. Seen the first film and it was a massive blast. Then read the first book, and it was a blast 5x larger. Crichton was a genius.

So glad you brought back the old intro music

I’m dyslexic and ADHDer. My dyslexia makes it difficult to read. My ADHD makes it difficult to focus on AudioBooks. So it’s very rare that I was read a book. I had somewhat known about changes from JP novel to film, ie Wu and Hammond. But nothing about TLW. However, about a year ago I discovered your channel and watched years old videos going over some of the best scenes from TLW, particularly the cage with Arby. And I just wanted to know the full story. I listed to an audiobook of Jurassic Park and borrowed the Lost World from a friend. If it wasn’t for you, I never would have had those stories opened up to me. So thank you!

If you haven't read the books, you don't know the genius you're missing out on. They are SO GOOD. Have read them both several times, and will surely read them many more times throughout my life if the Lord gives me the time.

I was on this novel Store about to buy Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for $15. But, when suddenly, I found a double novel of both Jurassic Park and The Lost World for $40. And it was Worth buying it.

The 90s and early 00s Jurassic park era was honestly so much better compared to the sequel trilogy. I would definitely like to see a Netflix or some other streaming service do a reboot series or movie that's more of an actual adaptation of the first 2 books where the ending of the series or movies is the DX prion killing the dinosaurs

Good timing dude; I was starting to lose it at work 👍

the juvenile t-rex is an awesome book element. these books are what got me into reading for fun when i was younger, so i totally agree with your rec!

Agree 100%. I really need to re-read them since the last time I did was in middle school in the early-mid 2000's lol

You bring up an interesting point which I had not thought about Klayton. I think an interesting idea would’ve been to kill off the Nubla dinosaurs at the end of Fallen Kingdom with only a few survivors escaping into the wild. Then Dominion is basically TLW novel. Claire, driven by guilt, finds out their are dinosaurs on Sorna. Goes with Dodgson, he betrays her. Owen, Maisie and the legacy characters go to save her. They could even tie in the locusts in the future saying they are responsible for killing the ecosystem on Sorna (I know it’s retcon but it would build on the lore and make them somewhat relevant). This way they could’ve introduced new dinosaurs naturally on Sorna and not have a bunch of random ones show up all over the world like “how did they get here? Who made them?”

I read Jurassic Park in 4th grade (somehow my elementary school had it). Big mistake. Had nightmares at the Dilo part. Still recommend reading the books though.

I LOVE the books, still have my first edition of Lost World with me. There's so much in them that make these books amazing, definitely a must read for any JP fan that can stomach horror and gore

Hey Klayton I know you’re a busy man but I would be eternally grateful to you if you one day recorded audiobooks of the novels. Your voice would be perfect to listen to for that!