Jurassic Park
This isn't usually my kind of book. I've read a handful of thrillers over the years, and I've never particularly enjoyed them. But I thought it would be fun to read the source material for a movie I love. To see what they changed and why. It turns out they changed quite a bit. Though all of it made sense to me. Then again, that could be because I know the movie so well, love it so much, that I was primed to see all the changes they made as improvements on the story. Which isn't to say that I didn't enjoy the book. But part of that enjoyment came from replaying the movie in my head while I was reading it and reveling in all the little differences. The biggest thing I liked about the movie is that it switched the ages of the grandkids and gave Lex more to do. In the book, Tim is interested in computers and dinosaurs and Lex likes baseball and mostly exists to be an annoying kid. She has a couple of good moments, but the movie did well to give her the interest in c...