re: Jurassic Park...About halfway through the book and I'm loving it

It was a very good book. Like all of Chrighton's stuff it was kind of light reading but well done and a lot of fun.

Chrighton's knack of using plausible sounding, well reasoned scientific theories behind his sic fi served him well in this one. (though my favorite was probably the giant fax machine like device used for time travel in Timeline)

Don't want to spoil the book so I won't go into plot details. But yeah the book had a lot more in it than the movie, both in terms of details and of different types of dinos. But the movie did a great job of bringing the basic essence to life.