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Jurassic Park III
Action-packed prose will thrill young readers in this exciting adaptation of the third Jurassic Park movie, written by a noted fantasy author who has become an expert in creating scientifically accurate dinosaur fiction for children. Also includes a full-color eight-page insert, featuring photos from the movie!
116 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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Scott Ciencin
178 books77 followersScott Ciencin was a New York Times best-selling novelist of 90+ books. He wrote adult and children's fiction and worked in a variety of mediums including comic books. He created programs for Scholastic Books, designed trading cards, consulted on video games, directed and produced audio programs & TV commercials, and wrote in the medical field about neurosurgery and neurology. He first worked in TV production as a writer, producer and director. He lived in Sarasota, Florida with his wife (and sometimes co-author) Denise.
(Also wrote under the pseudonyms Nick Baron and L.J. Oliver)
(Also wrote under the pseudonyms Nick Baron and L.J. Oliver)
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October 22, 2012
Jurassic park review
Jurassic Park 3 by Ciencin Scott. Jurassic Park 3 is when Explorer Dr Grant from Jurassic Park 1 is hired to be flown over Isla Sorna to look at Dinosaurs on Jurassic Park site B. This is where the real dinosaurs of Jurassic park real come from. Site A was a tourist attraction and site B is where they export it from. There is a surprise when Dr Grant landes on the island. I believe you should read this book to people who love science fiction and dinosaurs because it show what happens when you recreate dinosaurs on the Earth.
The point of the book is to entertain you and show you the ancient dinos that are living on an dinosaur infested island. The author is trying to say that dinosaurs are dead for a reason. He is also trying to say that the dinosaurs ruled the Earth before and now that they're back they could rule again.
I felt that the book is great because of the science and the fact that he recreates dinosaurs in the book. Also he shows that everybody you meet may not who they say they are.
Jurassic Park 3 by Ciencin Scott. Jurassic Park 3 is when Explorer Dr Grant from Jurassic Park 1 is hired to be flown over Isla Sorna to look at Dinosaurs on Jurassic Park site B. This is where the real dinosaurs of Jurassic park real come from. Site A was a tourist attraction and site B is where they export it from. There is a surprise when Dr Grant landes on the island. I believe you should read this book to people who love science fiction and dinosaurs because it show what happens when you recreate dinosaurs on the Earth.
The point of the book is to entertain you and show you the ancient dinos that are living on an dinosaur infested island. The author is trying to say that dinosaurs are dead for a reason. He is also trying to say that the dinosaurs ruled the Earth before and now that they're back they could rule again.
I felt that the book is great because of the science and the fact that he recreates dinosaurs in the book. Also he shows that everybody you meet may not who they say they are.
November 3, 2015
I was around 7 or 8 when my mother brought this home to me, and in one sunny sitting I plowed through it.
I was dinosaur crazy in my youth, and read countless books on the prehistoric creatures, but this was special because unlike the countless other Dino books I owned (with their lists, fact-files, and illustrations), Jurassic Park III redefined the concept of territory for me, not as some boundary animals fight over, but as an all inclusive area where living things forfeit their rights to those higher in the food chain.
This proved a very interesting concept to me, and I learned that those who occupied the heights of the food chain (those carnivores who define territory) were also the most horrifying and mindless creatures in the book. Their very existence prevents the peace and happiness of all in the land, especially for our protagonists.
Now compare that world on Isla Sorna to ours, where humanity occupies the top of the food chain.
We become aware of our own behavior in it, of our own terrifying presence over all those beneath us. We start to see our own resemblance to the very monsters we feared, mindless and ravenous in their search for flesh, but put in comparison to the levels of murder and mistreatment humanity commits daily, there is no comparison. Any chance of the mindless, necessary killing a huge carnivore throws at us means nothing compared to the actual unnecessary genocide man continually perpetuates to all living things.
Jurassic Park functions as entertainment not just because there are dinosaurs, nor for the fear they inspire, but because they offer a glance into a world where we've taken a step down the chain and become only a meal to those unsympathetic monsters above us (hence why the most memorable moments of the stories involve dinosaurs preying on people); and in this way it becomes a critique of our own moral and ethical attitude as masters of the food chain.
But what about the Raptors? Surely they can't be seen as mindless, after all, they can open doors .
That may be true, but it is their intellect, unflinching and without empathy, which makes them far more sinister than their Tyrannosaur counterpart.
This is why they are the final test in the movie, and this is also why Jurassic World reminded us that
But there is redemption in intellect, and the raptors, though bound to their carnivorous nature, signify it with their benevolent mercy in the penultimate scene.
Still, forgetting that little eco-critical bend I went on, I just wanted to say that this book really added something to my summer all those years ago, and I'm very thankful for having it in my life.
I was dinosaur crazy in my youth, and read countless books on the prehistoric creatures, but this was special because unlike the countless other Dino books I owned (with their lists, fact-files, and illustrations), Jurassic Park III redefined the concept of territory for me, not as some boundary animals fight over, but as an all inclusive area where living things forfeit their rights to those higher in the food chain.
This proved a very interesting concept to me, and I learned that those who occupied the heights of the food chain (those carnivores who define territory) were also the most horrifying and mindless creatures in the book. Their very existence prevents the peace and happiness of all in the land, especially for our protagonists.
Now compare that world on Isla Sorna to ours, where humanity occupies the top of the food chain.
We become aware of our own behavior in it, of our own terrifying presence over all those beneath us. We start to see our own resemblance to the very monsters we feared, mindless and ravenous in their search for flesh, but put in comparison to the levels of murder and mistreatment humanity commits daily, there is no comparison. Any chance of the mindless, necessary killing a huge carnivore throws at us means nothing compared to the actual unnecessary genocide man continually perpetuates to all living things.
Jurassic Park functions as entertainment not just because there are dinosaurs, nor for the fear they inspire, but because they offer a glance into a world where we've taken a step down the chain and become only a meal to those unsympathetic monsters above us (hence why the most memorable moments of the stories involve dinosaurs preying on people); and in this way it becomes a critique of our own moral and ethical attitude as masters of the food chain.
But what about the Raptors? Surely they can't be seen as mindless, after all, they can open doors .
That may be true, but it is their intellect, unflinching and without empathy, which makes them far more sinister than their Tyrannosaur counterpart.
This is why they are the final test in the movie, and this is also why Jurassic World reminded us that
But there is redemption in intellect, and the raptors, though bound to their carnivorous nature, signify it with their benevolent mercy in the penultimate scene.
Still, forgetting that little eco-critical bend I went on, I just wanted to say that this book really added something to my summer all those years ago, and I'm very thankful for having it in my life.
January 21, 2023
The fourth best is to watch movie this is the first Hollywood movie I have a watch in my childhood and the great one
July 21, 2013
Title-JURASSIC PARKⅢ
Time-7/17=30min,7/19=30min,7/20=20min
7words-dinosaurs,boat,dangerous,shout,egg,attack,liver
Discussion Question-
Q. If you encounter some kinds of dinasoaur, what are you doing?
A. If I encounter some kinds of it,I walk back with looking a dinosaur.
I have ever watched on the movie. I thought a dinosuar is very dangerous animal. Although I want to see the live dinosaur, I will feel dangerous. It is interesting for me to read this book.
Time-7/17=30min,7/19=30min,7/20=20min
7words-dinosaurs,boat,dangerous,shout,egg,attack,liver
Discussion Question-
Q. If you encounter some kinds of dinasoaur, what are you doing?
A. If I encounter some kinds of it,I walk back with looking a dinosaur.
I have ever watched on the movie. I thought a dinosuar is very dangerous animal. Although I want to see the live dinosaur, I will feel dangerous. It is interesting for me to read this book.
November 19, 2012
Luv it :)
October 7, 2023
Wystarczy wziąć do rąk tę pozycję, żeby zobaczyć, że nie jest to literatura wyższa. Biedne wydanie i niewiele ponad 100 stron, wygląda jak coś, co dodaje się do płatków śniadaniowych.
W środku niewiele lepiej. Trudno to nawet nazwać adaptacją, bo to po prostu w większości bezmyślne przepisanie wydarzeń z filmu. I dokładnie tak to się czyta - jak opis czy streszczenie filmu. Sceny, które tam trzymały w napięciu, tutaj są zmieszczone w dwóch zdaniach.
Fabuła jest taka sama i się tak samo dobrze broni: przyspieszona terapia małżeńska wśród dinozaurów, swoją drogę przechodzą wszyscy bohaterowie, Alan, Billy i Eryk także. Ale stylistycznie to jest bardzo biedne. Książki Crichtona miały swoje głupotki, ale obok nich to coś nawet nie stało.
Tłumacz też się nie popisał, bo jest różnica między "rozdzielić się", a "podzielić się", tak jak między "rozładować" i "wyładować".
Gdyby to tylko dostał zdolny pisarz, mógłby to być ciekawy powrót do Parku Jurajskiego. A tak, skoro można obejrzeć film, nie widzę sensu w marnowaniu czasu na tej pozycji o wątpliwej jakości.
W środku niewiele lepiej. Trudno to nawet nazwać adaptacją, bo to po prostu w większości bezmyślne przepisanie wydarzeń z filmu. I dokładnie tak to się czyta - jak opis czy streszczenie filmu. Sceny, które tam trzymały w napięciu, tutaj są zmieszczone w dwóch zdaniach.
Fabuła jest taka sama i się tak samo dobrze broni: przyspieszona terapia małżeńska wśród dinozaurów, swoją drogę przechodzą wszyscy bohaterowie, Alan, Billy i Eryk także. Ale stylistycznie to jest bardzo biedne. Książki Crichtona miały swoje głupotki, ale obok nich to coś nawet nie stało.
Tłumacz też się nie popisał, bo jest różnica między "rozdzielić się", a "podzielić się", tak jak między "rozładować" i "wyładować".
Gdyby to tylko dostał zdolny pisarz, mógłby to być ciekawy powrót do Parku Jurajskiego. A tak, skoro można obejrzeć film, nie widzę sensu w marnowaniu czasu na tej pozycji o wątpliwej jakości.
June 2, 2018
I like this book because of its history and the difficult situation in which these characters.
December 31, 2019
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"Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best of intentions."
I'm not sure what is more foolish: creating a movie with no proper storyline or writing a book on the said movie. That too, without the emotions witnessed in the book. Scott Ciencin's version of Jurassic Park III was one such book. The movie was already a mistake and then this book came along. Without any proper story-telling and without any adequate meaning to it, this book but only made me sad at how it turned out, but also disappointed me terribly.
The only good thing was that it showed the story exactly as it was. But then, given how the movie was, I'm not sure if it was good or bad.
The most ironic thing about this book is that right at the beginning Alan swears no force can make him go back to the dinosaur islands and yet, here we are. Perhaps, he wasn't including money in those forces?
Although, I doubt I blame him either, considering how he only accepted the job thinking that they would be flying over it instead of landing in it.
Anyhow, I believe the only point of this book and even this movie was to continue making stories because they include dinosaurs that people would go to watch and read. Pretty disappointing, overall, if you ask me.
"Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best of intentions."
I'm not sure what is more foolish: creating a movie with no proper storyline or writing a book on the said movie. That too, without the emotions witnessed in the book. Scott Ciencin's version of Jurassic Park III was one such book. The movie was already a mistake and then this book came along. Without any proper story-telling and without any adequate meaning to it, this book but only made me sad at how it turned out, but also disappointed me terribly.
The only good thing was that it showed the story exactly as it was. But then, given how the movie was, I'm not sure if it was good or bad.
The most ironic thing about this book is that right at the beginning Alan swears no force can make him go back to the dinosaur islands and yet, here we are. Perhaps, he wasn't including money in those forces?
Although, I doubt I blame him either, considering how he only accepted the job thinking that they would be flying over it instead of landing in it.
Anyhow, I believe the only point of this book and even this movie was to continue making stories because they include dinosaurs that people would go to watch and read. Pretty disappointing, overall, if you ask me.
January 16, 2020
They skipped a lot of things and it was different in some parts.
Read
August 26, 2021Fun and quick read.
October 3, 2024
This one is basically just the written down movie, but still loved it.
August 5, 2020
After reading the Crichton books I wanted more and was hoping there would be a novelization of the third movie. This junior one was as close as they got. Still, I gave it read and found it lacking even with low expectations. Oh well.
I chatted with animator Mike Quinn about his work on the film for a special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/ep...
I chatted with animator Mike Quinn about his work on the film for a special episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/ep...
December 19, 2024
Perfectly ok book
September 20, 2011
Good book
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