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Summary: The Lost World - The Dinosaur Tale
Review: Packed to the brim with action, suspense, and drama The Lost World by Michael Crichton is a novel that will be read for generations to come. Doctor Ivan Malcom just gets back from a terror theme park (Jurassic park) and he is off again to a dinosaur filled island to save his work college Levine. The islands name Site B. Once on the island he encounters gentle giants such as the triceratops, brontosaurus and the stegosaurus along with the fearsome raptor, carnotaurus sastrei, and Tyrannosaurus. He observes them from a supposedly safe place The High Hide before disaster strikes and a fearsome T-Rex destroys all lab equipment. To make matters worse all forms of transportation off the island are gone and nobody knows they are there. Will they survive? This book is an excellent example of courage, nobility and most of all companionship. This book is my all time favorite and should be treated like royalty.
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Summary: !!The Best Book I Read!!
Review: I loved the book I stated reading it after I seen the movie I thought it was going to be the same but it suprised me. The Lost World is actioned packed, it says it on the cover it's funny my brother couldn't stop reading the second to the last chopter he wants to buy the book.
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Summary: The Lost Review
Review: The Lost World is a book by Michel Crichton and is a great science fiction novel. Ian Malcom and Dr. Thorne must save a college of theirs on an island that InGen previously owned. But what they find out soon after they land they learn InGens little secret, this is where InGen imported there dinosurs for Jurasic Park. So they must race against time, and dinosurs, to find their friend who may be injured. Will things change as they find out they have two stowaways? Read and find out, if you dare.
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Summary: It stinks!
Review: Let's reflect, shall we? The first book ended with Grant trapped in Costa Rica. The government refused to permit him to leave. He reflected on the fact that they refused to allow them to bury Hammond and Malcolm too. We are led to believe this is all because raptors are on the loose in Costa Rica, moving in bizarre migration patterns, eating lysine-rich foods (they were all made lysine dependent when they were cloned), and that the government is going to eventually want Grant to find and kill them. How do we go from that to the abomination that is this book? Can anyone draw me a logical line here? I don't know the story behind the scenes, but I do remember Spielberg promised a sequel to the first movie long before this book appeared. It would seem hollywood threw money at Crichton to do the screenplay and he decided to publish it as a novel first. So the anwser is clear: This is a sequal to the first movie, not the first book. This would easily explain everything, including why Malcolm is back from the dead (he didn't die in the movie). What a shame.. expecially since the first book left it so wide open for a sequal - The continuing adventure of our beloved Dr. Grant, fighting the raptors - and this one completely ignores all that. Maybe someday we will get a true sequal - Jurassic Park 2 - but don't hold your breath.
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Summary: First one was twice as good
Review: The first book was good enough to stand on it's own and didn't need a sequel. This book was somewhat exciting but after I was done with it I didn't feel as satisfied as I did after I read the first one. Actually the book probably deserves 3 1/2 stars but there isn't something allocated for that. It is a good rainy day book, but there are a lot of better rainy day books out of that. To me it just seems like Crichton can't put 2 great books our in a row. Of course that is just my opnion, I could be wrong.
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Summary: Michael Crichton Returns To Jurassic Park
Review: I was so excited when I finished Jurassic Park I couldn't wait to get the sequel for it. Now that I have also finished it I liked it a lot. in this book Ian Malcolm and his pals have to return to Jurassic Park after hearing reports of strange creature sightings on the island. So he goes to Jurassic Park again only to find more dinosaurs than he expected. In the end they have to cope with T-rex, Raptors, and other mean dinos. My favorite parts would have to be when King almost made it but let the raptors kill him, when Baselton got ripped to shreds by the T-rex, when they were in the trailer and the rex was trying to knock it off the cliff, and my all time favorite scene was when they were in the jeep shooting at the raptors and knocking them off the cliff. Well, I can't wait to read another book of Michael Crichton.
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Summary: Movie Script Mistakenly Presented as a Book
Review: I started not to bother offering my opinion but I couldn't let such claptrap go unanswered. It literally exudes "cinema" on every page. The story is flimsy (a farce really) and the action is so predictable that I guessed the end of each chapter midway through. One can detect the scenes written with the (new) movie in mind. Compared to the first book, it lacks credible science, mystery, believable characters, and a plot. Once again, the author is at his worst with character development - you just can't feel close to any of these cartoon action figures. Here's hoping for a better job next time.
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Summary: Not nearly as good as Jurassic Park
Review: Jurassic Park was a fabulous book that was interesting and engaging. This book is a cheap sequel (almost as bad as the movie was....well, maybe not). The "spark" present throughout JP is gone, and this hollow storyline and strange characters are all that's left. If you're interested in the "rest of the story", go ahead and give it a try (I did). Just take this review as a warning.
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Summary: Wow
Review: In this book, Michael Crichton has made a world where dinosaures trule walk the earth. With his excelent blend of discriptive setting, heart pounding action, and scientific analogies, this is truley a book for all types of readers. Begining with a science lecture, he truley gives the feeling that the lost world could really exist. Crichton uses the chaos theory in an excelent way, to make it feel like the whole concept of recreating dinosaurs isn't totaly false. Another good aspect of this book is how descriptive it is. All of the descriptive settings,actions, and the dinosaurs that Crichton gives in the book are mind boggling. The way he describes the gentle bobbing of the Procompsognathus' heads, the fluid movements of the Velociraptor, all so life like. As with Jurassic Park, Crichton has truley brought dinosaurs back to life
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Summary: Better than the movie
Review: This book is very "technical" as opposed to Jurassic Park, but still was very good. I would definitely call it one of Crichton's better works. The book is of course, better than the movie, but if you have read Jurassic Park you'll know why. I also recommend if you have read Jurassic Park, that you pick this one up if you haven't already done so.
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