Once again Michael Crichton enthralls his readers with a privileged look inside the scientific community. Academic and scientific jargon permeate the novel and lend its fictional story line a great deal of realism and credibility. Much of the reading public, and children in particular, are fascinated with dinosaurs, and Crichton does not disappoint. He teaches his readers the correct genus and species names of each dinosaur featured on the island of Sorna, and then he makes these tongue-twisting names more accessible by giving the dinosaurs nicknames. For example, the repulsive chicken-sized scavenger dinosaurs are properl