Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993, when Jurassic Park hit theatres, you"re no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg"s amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get a hold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version"s kinetic storyline with additional scenes, dialogue and explanations while still maintaining Crichton"s trademark thrills-"n"-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes, Amazon.com