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The worst one for me is the sequel book that Crichton actually wrote. The Lost World.
He actually wrote it as a sequel to the movie, not the first book. Bringing back Ian Malcolm (killed in the book, but not the movie) and flipping the ages of the original 2 kids to match the movie.
As a book, it's not awful, but he kind of sold out by writing it for the inevitable movie adaptation... which then completely ignores the book. π€¬
I really wanted to see the chameleon dinosaurs too! Or, you know, not see them as the case may be!
When I read that book as a kid, that confused me so much. I reread the beginning of the book so many times trying to figure out if I had missed a line saying "but it turns out it was his twin who died" or something. I think I had gotten the first book from the library then returned it, else I would have reread it looking for an explanation. No, though; justifying his resurrection was left as an exercise for the reader.
I was confused too until I hit the reference to the kids age swap and then I was like "Oh! Sequel to the MOVIE, not the BOOK!"
Sadly, I wasn't very savvy and there was enough of a time gap that I didn't catch on.
The chameleon dinosaurs would have been a no-brainer! They were scary as hell in the book and easy to translate to the bog screen. Give 'em a predator-like cloaking vibe, but more obvious. Catch one fading into the treeline, stuff like that.
I think the bog screen is where they're debuting Swamp Thing, no?
There were chameleon ones in one of the newer Worlds.
The current Crichton books/sequels written by other authors from outline materials he left behind are so awful.
The one that James Patterson finished about the volcano in Hawaii was pretty awful too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_(novel)