The Lost World

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Summary: A Worthy Sequel
Review: This book is the rarest of all things in the entire world: a good sequel. Sure, it was probably written to cash in on JP's success (and not to mention, of course, the movie's), but it is a very good book nonetheless. Perhaps not quite as good as the first, but then again, what is? As one reviewer mentioned, Malcolm's revival was overwrought, but other than that this is an awesome book of suspense and thrills, with Crichton's ever-present scientific detail still intact.

Also, like the first book (apart from the opening), this is very different from (and better than) the movie. Read it.

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Summary: Typical Sequel
Review: I was less than enthusiastic about reading the Lost World. I probably should have been more optimistic, but this was the sequel to JURASSIC PARK. In the Lost World, Ian Malcolm (the scientist who DIED in Jurassic Park) is actually not dead and quite healthy, though with a bad leg. He has to go back to the hell of dinosaurs he left long ago, only this time he's going with a different group of people. Don't worry, a typical young female scientist and two annyoing kids go along with him. I thought this book was basically the same as Jurassic Park, only much worse. The book wasn't incredibally bad, but it didn't have the same flare for me as Jurassic Park. But even with this semi-pathetic book, Michael Crichton did keep it fairly entertaining, at least, I didn't want to stop in mid-book. But in this "version" of Jurassic Park, the book's focused more on "interesting" gadgets and this pack of villains, including Henry Dodgsen, and they're are so stupid it's almost like watching/reading about villians from a cartoon show. Bottom Line: I wouldn't read Jurassic Park before the Lost World.

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Summary: Better than the origanal
Review: Jurassic Park 1 was my first Crichton book and I really liked it. So of course I tried Jurassic park 2 The Lost world. And suprisingly I found this book better. It is such a flawless read with good plot and characters. If you already saw the movie and found it bad and so decided not to read the book. You were wrong, the book is a lot better tahn the movie.

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Summary: The Only Creighton Book I Didn't Finish
Review: I've read (at least started to read) every Creighton fiction book. I've loved them all with the exception of The Lost World. What a bummer. It felt as though Creighton took 1/2 of Congo and 1/2 of Jurassic Park and smashed them together.

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Summary: What a mess up!
Review: I loved this book for the most part.There is a mess up the editors didn't see at all.If you read the first book at the end you find the Ian dies and then the second book comes along and he is alive agian.That totally messed up a five star book.The plot was good.The characters were alright.But that Ian thing just messed it up for me.

I still recomend this book though because it is a good read.

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Summary: Better Than Jurassic Park Once You Get Over One Thing
Review: Ok, first let me deal with this books primary fault. In the beginning, Chriton makes a very cheap resurection of Ian Malcom. It is true that Malcom was my favorite character--he and I share like humors--in Jurassic Park and still is in this book. But that does NOT excuse the way he was brough back. It was quite clear in Jurassic Park that Malcom died; in the beginning of Lost World, however, Chrichton states that everyone only THOUGHT that Malcom died and that he really hadn't, but many newstations still reported that he did. I am sorry, but the man was surrounded by all kinds of scientists when he died, and I am pretty confidant that a scientist knows how to check a pulse, check for breathing, or otherwise know if someone is actually dead even if they are not M.D.'s. Moving on: once you get past the afformentioned annoyance, this book picks up pace and becomes better than Jurassic Park. I read the last 120 pages in one sitting, which is something I never do. The character development is excellent, the plot is fast and action packed, and it again challenges your mind to think. This is a great read with the one fatal flaw, but if you can get over it you're in for a good time.

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Summary: Crichton has it, even for a sequel
Review: A sequel, that has only the basic theme in common to the original with a completely different cast and settings. A wonderful adventure indeed for young minds and a classic that makes yu think of your links with the past.

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Summary: I'm sure you could've made the movie deal without THIS
Review: Okay - if you were Michael Chriton, would you have done the same thing? The easy answer is yes; I suppose why not? The first book did really well, got a movie, the new book's going to get grabbed up for the sequel movie and that's pretty much guaranteed - I'm sure there was a lot of money in it, it's just, I don't know...The Andromeda Strain was great, The Terminal Man was a good solid read, and Jurassic Park was really great (the movie notwithstanding)...Michael Chriton writes some great books (which seem to generally make for awful movies; if you don't beleive me rent Congo)...but in this case, the movie was actually better than the book! Not surprizing I guess, since the book seems to have only been an excuse to make the movie, but jeez, cut out the middle man and just come up with a script if that's the intention all along. The first book (Jurassic Park) was done very well I thought. This one's pulp for profit's sake (I just can't imagine it was divine inspiration). Pure crud. From the moment he brought back Ian Malcolm (he died in the first one, folks, DEAD. No breathing, no pulse, boo-hoo, poor Ian - deceased) I feared the book was in trouble; it read like an endless string of action sequences (action sequences that might, say, look great in a movie!) with none of the intellect of the first book. Ug.

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Summary: Good sequal but not great
Review: I was quite excited waiting for this book to come out and when I finished it I was somwhat dissapointed with it. I think it could have been better it just seemed like a rush job in order to make a sequal to the movie. I did enjoy the new dinosaurs though it was quite exciting to see them in action.

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Summary: Tou Lee's review of the Lost World
Review: The sequel to one my all-time favorite books, Jurassic Park, the Lost World was bound to be just as good, and as expected, it didn't disappoint. Ian Malcom (one of the original people brought to examine the original park) is sent on another trip, this time to an island, secretly used by Ingen to breed dinosaurs in the wild, to find and bring back a rich kid-Richard Levine. Another must-get classic from Michael Crichton.