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1.Jurassic Park 2.Crichton, Michael 3.The main characters in the book are: John Hammond who is a billionaire developer who has used his resources to create the dinosaur filled island known as Jurassic Park. He is an old grandfather, and he is killed in the book, by a dinosaur known as a Procompsognathus. Dr. Alan Grant who is a renowned paleontologist agrees to visit Jurassic Park only to find out it is the home of several Dinosaurs. Unlike the movie Dr. Grant loves kids in the book. Dr. Ellie Sattler is a paleo-botanist and like Alan Grant is among the first people to tour Jurassic Park. Tim who is the 11-year-old grandson of John Hammond, he is kind of geeky, into computers and loves dinosaurs. His seven year-old sister is Alexis, she has a kind of tomboy attitude and loves baseball. Ian Malcolm is the Mathematician that uses the Chaos Theory to predict disastrous results. Finally there is Dennis Nedry. He was the computer genius whom greed and ambition brought chaos to Jurassic Park. There are many other characters that played a big part in the book, but I thought they were the best and the plot revolved around them. The characters show the greatest difference in the movie and the book. There were many opposites in the chara