Dinosaurs in my Mind.

I first time I saw the movie version of Jurassic Park...I got hooked onto it. I can still remember that nite. I was around 11-12 years old, my mom had gone out to see off sumone at the Railway Station. The local cable provider used to put up new Hollywood movies late at nite and I was trying to see what was on for the day. The movie was already a few minutes into it when I finally got to it. But I was hooked on forever. I stayed up till the end of the movie. And went to bed a with a complete new look on the world around me.

The concept of the movie totally blew my mind. The fact that someone could come up with a story like this was mind-boggling. It was then that I actually started acknowledging the fact that the human mind is the most dangerous weapon  in the world...as well as the most underestimated part of the human body.

The more I thought about it, the more interested I got. I asked my dad to get me a video cassette of the movie. He got me the book as a bonus. That was when I knew that the movie was based on a book and that the movie was nothing compared to the book. I mean, the movie was a first of its kind....it ushered in a new era in movie-making. But the book is what helped achieve that. If not for the book, the movie wouldn't have been made at all. And the mind that thought up the concept is definitely that of a genius.

I've read all of Michael Crichton's books since then, the ones he wrote before JP as well as the ones that came after it. And apart from 2-3, I loved them all. But Jurassic Park remains my favorite. I take it with me everywhere I go. And every time I'm really bored and want to do something offbeat, I read the book again. Over the years, I've got really thorough with the book, so I usually skip to the interesting parts. But every time I read it, I find something new, something that I've missed out during my earlier readings, something that perks my interest all over again.

Michael Crichton is my all-time favorite author and Jurassic Park, my all-time favorite book. And I know, no matter how many books I read, this will always be my favorite book.