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I liked this book. I might have seen one of the movie versions but as it wasn't ringing too many bells as I read, perhaps not.
I liked the notion that the human qualities awakened or tinkered into the beasts were only held with great effort. It was as if such modifications were subject to an evolutionary entropy. I also liked how Prendick and then the main character adopted a loyal friend from the beasts mainly because I think it was the animal rather than the human characteristics that bred the beasts' loyalty.
If I were going to find an overriding message in the book it would be that there is peril in playing God, in attempting to defy nature. Nature always wins out; any success in controlling it is fleeting.
In a way, stories such as Jurassic Park are quite similar - cautionary tales of hubris and where it's likely to lead us.
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