Book · 2012 · Fiction
Jurassic Park
A Novel
#151 of 16,874 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 27
- people
- 16
- podcasts
- 15
- episodes
- 18
- critical mentions
- 0
What's interesting about Jurassic Park is that it did a great job of showcasing and educating the world about genetic engineering.
What they say about it
- Genetic engineering and DNA“showcasing and educating the world about genetic engineering”3
- Ethical issues and questions“ethical issues with this when applied to dinosaurs”2
The best things said about it
I would recommend Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
The book came out in 1990. And in the book, Ian Malcolm, who's a chaotician. Yeah, a creep chaotician. Right. He um He goes into even more depth about chaos theory.
Your scientists are so busy asking what they can do they're not asking should we.
I loved Michael Crichton and I loved those books and I still love Jurassic Park.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Dec 2022 They were taking ancient DNA from amber to fill in the gaps of dinosaur DNA with frog DNA.
It was fantastic to read Michael Crichton's rough draft of Jurassic Park.
Where and when it comes up
How it comes up
16 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a sci-fi thriller novel about a theme park populated by genetically resurrected dinosaurs. On ChooseFI, the host mentioned the book alongside other adventure stories when comparing genres with guest MK Williams. Tim Pool recommended the book on Timcast IRL, noting that he read it before the movie adaptation came out. Michael Ovitz discussed reading the author's rough draft on David Senra's podcast, calling it a thrill, while Josh Clark talked about the novel on Stuff You Should Know, pointing out that character Ian Malcolm delves much deeper into chaos theory in the book than in the film. On SmartLess, Laura Dern shared that she read Crichton's original novel after Nicolas Cage advised her to take a role in the film adaptation. Lewis Sacher mentioned reading the book after seeing the movie during his youth on The Book Review, and Ben Bowlin discussed the novel on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know to highlight the connection between birds and dinosaurs.
Every mention
Tim Pool i don't know what you're talking about oh i know you're talking about it i would um recommend jurassic park… 2
Recommended
“i don't know what you're talking about oh i know you're talking about it i would um recommend jurassic park by michael crichton but then the movie came out so it might not be the same experience i had i read it before the movie”
Recommended
“i would recommend jurassic park by michael crichton but then the movie came out”
Ben Lamm What's interesting about Jurassic Park is that it did a great job of showcasing and educating the world abo… 7
Discussed
“What's interesting about Jurassic Park is that it did a great job of showcasing and educating the world about genetic engineering. Now, we're not doing exactly what they did in Jurassic Park.”
Discussed
“Now, we're not doing exactly what they did in Jurassic Park. They were taking ancient DNA from amber to fill in the gaps of dinosaur DNA with frog DNA.”
Discussed
“I like to think of it as being slightly smarter than Jurassic Park. What's interesting is that George Church's original work, which I forgot the specifics of, was on yeast or something.”
Discussed
“what's interesting is that George Church's original sequence that he did and I forgot what it was on it was on yeast or something actually from his research shows up in Michael kryton's book so wow if any if any if you want to be technical I would argue that Jurassic Park uh was inspired by George so um in”
Discussed
“What's interesting is that George Church's original work, which I forgot the specifics of, was on yeast or something. But his research shows up in Michael Crichton's book.”
Discussed
“If you want to be technical, I would argue that Jurassic Park was inspired by George. In a way, I think it's completely the other way around; he should be getting royalties on it.”
Discussed
“We didn't copy Jurassic Park; they copied my co-founder George Church, who, for those listening, is kind of the OG. He's like the Mick Jagger of genetic engineering and DNA.”
Ben Bowlin And uh you know I've always found the connection uh between birds and dinosaurs fascinating as laid out uh… 2
Discussed
“And uh you know I've always found the connection uh between birds and dinosaurs fascinating as laid out uh brilliantly and scientifically unquestionably in the Jurassic Park series by the great scientist and Michael Kiteon.”
Discussed
“um and I I could imagine much like the Jurassic Park uh dinosaurs who are all bred to be female um they wanted real bad to reproduce and they apparently spontaneously were able to do so based on some very uh science fictiony science”
Jason Calacanis and when you read really good writers one of the things that they're doing is they're teaching you how to w… 2
Discussed
“and when you read really good writers one of the things that they're doing is they're teaching you how to write 100% right yeah this is why I you know I always loved um Michael kryon I don't know if You' read Michael kryon”
Discussed
“so if you're Michael Crichton and you created Jurassic Park my Lord that IP giveth forever which is why a universal wanted it so badly and I think they own it”
Robert Evans you're literally doing the Ian Malcolm and Jurassic Park thing like you're literally your scientists are so… 2
Discussed
“you're literally doing the Ian Malcolm and Jurassic Park thing like you're literally your scientists are so busy asking what they can do they're not asking should we is this [ __ ] up like Michael Kiteon was not a good man but he understood that this is bad ethics right that just being like I wonder if I can”
Discussed
“And I keep coming back to Jurassic Park because you can't not when it's talking about deextinction. But also, what's amazing to me is again, Michael Kiteon, the climate change denier. [ __ ] weird guy. Michael Kiteon um understood all of the ethical issues with this when applied to dinosaurs in a way this guy doesn't when applying them”
Beth Shapiro And Michael Kiteon, when he wrote the book that became the movie, he credited a lab at Berkeley, Alan Wilso… 1
Discussed
“And Michael Kiteon, when he wrote the book that became the movie, he credited a lab at Berkeley, Alan Wilson's group, the extinct species study group, which was the first group to show that you could get DNA in something after it died.”
Jordan Harbinger This is kind of the idea behind Jurassic Park, right? You've had to have been influenced by that movie. 1
Discussed
“This is kind of the idea behind Jurassic Park, right? You've had to have been influenced by that movie.”
Josh Clark The book came out in 1990. And in the book, Ian Malcolm, who's a chaotician. Yeah, a creep chaotician. Righ… 1
Discussed
“The book came out in 1990. And in the book, Ian Malcolm, who's a chaotician. Yeah, a creep chaotician. Right. He um He goes into even more depth about chaos theory.”
Laura Dern And um and so I told Nick Cage that I had been offered this opportunity and I was like, you know, I I haven… 1
Discussed
“And um and so I told Nick Cage that I had been offered this opportunity and I was like, you know, I I haven't read it yet, but but all I know is Stephen explained that I guess there's dinosaurs are going to come back to life and I I there's a book. I'm going to read the book. and”
Lewis Sacher And so Stephen King who I continued to maintain an obsession with Tom Clansancy, John Gisham, Michael Kiteo… 1
Discussed
“And so Stephen King who I continued to maintain an obsession with Tom Clansancy, John Gisham, Michael Kiteon, Anne Rice, all these people, I would see Jurassic Park or Interview with the Vampire or The Firm and I would read the book...”
Matthew Cobb Spielberg just wrote the book uh it's just uh just made the film the book was written by Michael Crichton 1
Discussed
“Spielberg just wrote the book uh it's just uh just made the film the book was written by Michael Crichton”
Michael Ovitz It was fantastic to read Michael Crichton's rough draft of "Jurassic Park." It was a thrill, but it was a b… 1
Discussed
“It was fantastic to read Michael Crichton's rough draft of "Jurassic Park." It was a thrill, but it was a book, and there have been books since the invention of the printing press.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson well the same guy who wrote jurassic park oh get out of christian michael creighton 1
Discussed
“well the same guy who wrote jurassic park oh get out of christian michael creighton”
Shaan Puri so spoiler for all romcoms ever and um it's actually all movies ever die hard Jurassic Park you could do th… 1
Discussed
“so spoiler for all romcoms ever and um it's actually all movies ever die hard Jurassic Park you could do the same exercise”
Tyler Cowen I loved Michael Crichton and I loved those books and I still love Jurassic Park 1
Discussed
“I loved Michael Crichton and I loved those books and I still love Jurassic Park”
Will Arnett that's one of the questions that they asked in Jurassic Park was just just oh good Jurassic Park good 1
Discussed
“that's one of the questions that they asked in Jurassic Park was just just oh good Jurassic Park good”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Recommended
“so if you have liked the man on a high castle or Timeless or Michael Crichton Jurassic Park adventure stories like that then you will love the infinite infinite”
Other mentions (30: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“You ever hear that line from, uh, Mo, the line from Jurassic Park, nature finds a way. Life life finds a way. Thank you. Life finds a way. Compute finds a way.”
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“I think, you know, to quote Jurassic Park, life finds a way.”
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“This week we lost Sam Neil, the great actor Sam Neil died. Um host I mean star of of Jurassic Park among many other great movies.”
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“To resurrect anything as a biologist, that's got Jurassic Park written all over it.”
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“I was reading u Michael Krykton books. So Jurassic Park, um Sphere, um what else was there?”
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“and this is all the work of a of an actual like science like bioscience startup called Colossal Biosciences, which is just by name a company that could not sound more like it belonged than a Michael Brighton novel if they just called it engine, right?”
Passing
“The article goes on to summarize the book that he co-wrote with Ed Regis, who it's weird to me that his co-author's name is Ed Regis because Ed Regis is also a character in the book Jurassic Park.”
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“I mean this is uh essentially literally wild. This is essentially real life Jurassic Park.”
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“yeah to paraphrase Jurassic Park profit uh finds a way”
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“It's kind of actually it's basically the same story as Jurassic Park. Um, and anyway, this guy has has gotten sued for a bunch of money in the US.”
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“you know that Jurassic Park line life finds way like Capital finds way”
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“and so this is um what is it nature finds way what did uh Malcolm say in Jurassic Park or life finds life finds a way so Venture finds a way Capital markets find a way”
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“just because you can technically do something doesn't mean you should right right back to you know Jurassic Park uh like did we ever ask ourselves should we do this”
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“Other everything from books and movies and in some other movements through in the world have talked about the concept of de-extinction.”
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“A kid came by and asked if he could look for fossils, and it was right after the movie Jurassic Park came out. The dinosaur craze was high and it just really piqued my interest, and I started spending every free minute I had learning what I could about dinosaurs.”
Passing
“It's kind of actually it's basically the same story as Jurassic Park. Um, and anyway, this guy has has gotten sued for a bunch of money in the US.”
Passing
“That he, it's like the thing in Jurassic Park, you were thinking so much about whether you could, you didn't ask yourself if you should. Like you were just, it seems like your big argument was like why aren't there other things to value in life?”
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“if you're a deal maker and you can buy a company like a private Equity person can or a banker or somebody who's a deal maker like Michael Ovitz at CAA shout out talking about Jurassic Park”
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“like jurassic park how many people have said break up facebook over the years guess what broke up facebook”
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“and of course i think that was michael crichton's first novel before he wrote jurassic park and a whole lot of other things”
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“It's like the mosquito and the amber in "Jurassic Park".”
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“but he basically tried to corner the market in hollywood by having michael crichton write jurassic park having spielberg direct it putting his actors in it the whole thing and then doing the theme park stuff with universal”
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“Well the same guy who wrote jurassic park”
Passing
“And now we have to just I think face the reality that we are in competition And I think that's what is making the press even more complicated I'm not saying the press is targeting people they consider competitive But the press is not getting Vlad Elon Or Zuck for interviews But because Mark Andreessen has you know Clubhouse now”
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“so michael crichton you know who wrote jurassic park”
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“michael crichton the same author of Jurassic Park”
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“The Senate called on a science fiction the author of Jurassic Park testify on climate change. Trust the guy that blends frogs with dinosaur DNA.”
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“For me it would be Robert wanted to make dinosaurs like in the Dur Essic Park books and that's the only thing he talked about was becoming a scientist.”
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“The good news is we’ve got Cathy Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Crichton with a detailed book that’s going to be a best-seller about dinosaurs, and we've got a screenplay and it’s going to cost this much money. Well, we own it, and you don’t. Now take those six to eight other studios that don’t get that phone call—they're not”
Passing
“you've watched Jurassic Park too many times you realize there's no real vasap whatever the [__] they the goddamn things were”