Over on the fediverse (or at least the German speaking part of it) there’s a bit of a challenge going on: post 20 books that shaped you, but only their covers without any comments. Now of course I won’t be able to skip the comments, so here they are. (Think of them as the DVD extra to the post.)
When the movie came out, I was hooked. After watching it I read and watched basically everything I could find about the process of making the movie. Articles in movie magazines, books about the special effects, books about the accuracy of the dinosaurs, everything. It took me a while to get around to reading the novel, though. And when I did, it was probably the first “real” novel I read in English outside of school. Luckily the language isn’t too complicated so it gave me the confidence to continue reading books that have been written in English in their original language.