![]() You can see in reading the book why they had to leave some parts out in the film and why they decided to go in different directions with portions of the plot. I'd have to say in this case I like the book and the film equally which is a rarity. ![]() Crichton does his job well at mastering the art of the written word and keeping the reader in the jaws of suspense.Though it does differ from the film, sometimes minutely and other times quite greatly, both have the same feel and even the same terror to them. This book was both fascinating and very well researched. ![]() I have seen nearly all his films but this was the very first book that I picked up from him. And though at times it does have the feel of an adventure on the high seas it does borderline on the horror genre.This was my first book from Michael Crichton. Crichton has a simplicity to his writing that is both descriptive and easy to follow. But where has this spacecraft been? Why was it built? And more importantly what did it bring back with it?This book was an amazing read and keeps you riveted from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() Upon meeting his other team members and being briefed by Captain Barnes, who is head of the operation, he soon learns that they're actually investigating an alien spacecraft more than 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. The operation is military-run and Norman suspects from the very beginning that there is more than meets the eye. Norman Johnson is flown to the middle of the South Pacific and dredged thousands of feet below the surface to investigate a so-called plane crash. ![]()
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