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Summary: CRiCHTON SUFFERS FROM "SORRY SEQUEL SYNDROME"
Review: Michael Crichton has fallen prey to what I like to call "Sorry Sequel Syndrome." The Lost World is probably one of the worst written and boring novels I have read in my fifteen year life. By now even I know the do's and don'ts of a sequel. This book does not establish characters very well. If you were hoping to expand more on the character of Ian Malcolm in this book, read the first book again because you won't find the character you thought you knew here.The children in the story are pretty much there only to serve the classic adventure story cliche of the "children in peril." All throughout the book, we see traces of the children in the first book in this one. If you are looking for more Jurassic adventure, I advise you to look somewhere other than this book because you will only be dissapointed.
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Summary: Bone-chilling
Review: I'm sure most of you have either seen the movie or read the book Jurassic Park. This book is the sequel to Jurassic Park. The Lost World is about Site B. Site B is where John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park, originally bred the park's dinos. Now, he is struggling to keep it the way it is: undisturbed, where it is the dinos' property & theirs only. So Hammond then sends a team of reasearchers to the island, including Ian Malcom, Sarah Harding, and Eddie Carr. These adventurers not only get attacked by Velociraptors, T-Rexes, and Compys, but have THE ultimate adventure. I highly reccomend this book to any Jurassic Park lover.
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Summary: THE LOST WORLD SETS LITERATURE BACK 65 MILLION YEARS.
Review: I like to consider myself reasonably well read, and Michael Crichton is one of my guilty secrets. His novels are undemanding and disposable but quick and enjoyable. But reading the Lost World was one of the most painful experiences of my life. Amateurish beyond belief, badly written, clumsily plotted and an insult to the intelligent reader. Remember that Crichton only churned out this book because the movie sequel was being made. If the original movie had flopped, he would not have written this trash. It's clear that his heart and soul are absent from every sentence of this abomination. JP was a thoughtful, intelligent, original piece of airport reading (arguably MC's best book since the Andromeda Strain); the Lost World has nothing to recommend it. Don't trust those who have rated this book above a "5". You only have spot all the spelling mistakes to realise how illiterate these people are.
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Summary: THE LOST WORLD IS THE WORST BOOK EVER WRITTEN
Review: 1 is too high of a rating for this horrible book. Oh sure, I have read bad books before but this was even worse. Every page was filled with no thought what so ever. What could Michael Crichton of been thinking when he wrote this? I have noticed that some people have given this book a 9 or a 10. I don't know what those people could of been thinking because this book is so bad that a negative number is what it should get. If you have not read this book yet, please take my advice and don't waste your money or even a trip to the library.
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Summary: The lost world
Review: The lost world was an exalent fiction thriller! The creatures and people were explained vivedly. the book was non stop suspece!It's the first book on book reveiws!
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Summary: Movie is not the match of the master piece
Review: The book is great .Stephen has the story CHANGE .The movie ain't facinating, not fancy my eyes and my ears.Anyway I would recommend this master piece of Michael to the readers.
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Summary: The Lost World:A Novel was a really great book!
Review: In Michael Crichton's sequel to Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm and a few new characters journey to Isla Sorna, site of InGen's Site B, and finally realize that 6 years after the incident at Isla Nublar, 6 years since the dinosaurs destroyed, that something has survived. This book is a one-sit read that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Summary: How could this mistake have slipped by???
Review: Let us be clear on one thing: Ian Malcolm DIED at the end of Jurassic Park, the book. And yet, Michael Chrichton resurrected him for the sequel!!! One can condemn Spielberg for butchering chaos theory, the firmament of JP, but it seems extremely irritating that the author of both books should have made such a callous mistake, thereby insulting the intelligence of readers everywhere. Pg. 398 of JP says "...they did not even permit the burial of .... Malcolm." Come on, people. We are far from illiterate. Even though the book was articulate, how can the protagonist be a character who died in the previous story? Are we moving into the realm of ghost stories?
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Summary: Fine sequel to a classic.
Review: If you are one of the few who have seen neither film version of Crichton's dino-novels, then read the two novels first. Then read them again and again. Because they are so engaging, so suspenseful and so satisfying that the special effects bonanzas that Spielberg created pale in comparison. I waited almost a year after its release to watch Jurassic Park on video because I had heard how badly the filmmakers had butchered major story elements. And, quite frankly, I was offended that they didn't think the general public could handle an intelligent science-fiction film. Make no mistake, Jurassic Park and The Lost World and excellent novels. The former gets a slight edge over the latter because of its originality and because some of the action in The Lost World IS a bit predictable. But The Lost World is still wildly entertaining. Malcolm may continue his chaos theory rantings, but at least he is consistent. And, it should be noted, he is also correct. Once saving grace of the films is that Jeff Goldblum played the character of Malcolm exactly the way I pictured him in my head when I first read Jurassic Park years before the film was released. If Jurassic park is a 9, this is an 8+.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK,BAD MOVIE
Review: I really don't understand why people are giving this book bad reviews.I loved it and could not put it down for five minutes and I review books harsher than anyone.I found the scientific theories very interesting and exciting to read.It was the perfect sequel to jurassic park.This book proved to me how great michael crighton is as an author.I hope he keeps making books like this.I only wish the movie folllowed the book more.I don't understand why they didn't because it could of been so much better
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