The Lost World

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Summary: One kid's opinion
Review: This book was good. I didn't refer back to Jurassic Park to see if everything matched, I just read the book for fun not to critisize it at every turn so there! If Mr. Crichton read's this all I have to say to you is to keep writing interesting and fun novels...I love them

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Summary: it was really cool
Review: This is a really awsome book, it keeps you going , it is a real page turner

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Summary: A great, if predictable, sequel
Review: I really enjoyed (and recently re-read) The Lost World, but there was one major technical flaw I can't get over... Part of the plot turns on the dinosaurs being good parents, and having evolved "good parent behavior," but some of the dinosaurs have this evolved behavior and others haven't. The maiasauruses and the t-rexes were great parents, defending their young and protecting their territory, so good parenting behavior is evolved. The raptors are "nasty, brutish and short," so good parenting behavior is NOT evolved. Either way, it's interesting, but I wish Michael Chrichton would make up his mind and be consistant

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Summary: An immenesly entertaining adventure trilled with suspense
Review: Levine and a group of scientist traced that dinosaurs still exist in an isolated island near the central west coast. Dodgson and the Biosyn company knew about their research and are also ready to go to this island. The discovery of the dinosaurs and the labs by Ian and the scientists were amazing. Dodgson and his workman tried to steal dinosaur eggs right from their parents. Ian and Sarah were attacked by a Tyrannosaur while they were in the trailer. At last, the velociraptors chased the scientist all around the island and killed Dodgson and his men. I liked most about this story was the theories of Ian about the evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs

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Summary: Exhilarating reading
Review: "The lost world" is an exciting book you won't be able to put down. You'll be so engrossed in the text that you'll lose all sense of time.
Not only does the book plunges you into a thrilling experience but it also allows you to analyze several aspects of the new technologies that are emerging in the global world, leading to a philosophical debate that you had never imagined you'd be part of.
To savor every word of it, you should first read Jurassic Park, so you can understand what we're dealing with, then, just enjoy this masterpiece and wait for the movie.
Of course, if you are totally apathetic about science, dinosaurs and adventure (so incredibly well combined by Crichton), then you've chosen the wrong author (try Danielle Steel)

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Summary: A thriller from a great author.
Review: This book is about a place known as the lost world. The lost world is a place where dinosaurs still live. There is a lot of action and the Crichton crafted the book with care. I give it a 10, 6 out of 5 stars, and two thumbs up

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Summary: Great fun!
Review: Intellectual and entertaining

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Summary: Better watch your back, you never know
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. The moment I picked it up I never put it down until i was done. Michael Chrichton wrote this book so well that I actually thought that is was in the book. We i read it i was always looking over my sholder. I thoght that Jurassic Park was the best book ever untill I picked the one up. I read it 6 times the first month I had it. The movie is coming out on labor day, but I know that the book will be better that the movie because you can't match his brillance. Hopefully he will write a thrid one, but who knows maybe it will be better the the first, you know what Ian Malcolm says, (Sequelaes are inherently unpredictable)

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Summary: This is one of the best sequels I've read in a long while.
Review: This was a really great book because it brought the best dinosaurs from Jurassic Park into the wild. Also, the best character, in my mind, Ian Malcolm, returns in this book. This book kept my attention the whole way through. It was very suspenseful which is what kept my attention

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Summary: Gee, lets make a movie.
Review: I felt like I was reading a storyboard for a movie. No doubt it will make a very good movie, but I felt shortchanged as I read the book. It seemed to simple to me. Chrichton could have put more thought in the interesting ideas he had about dinosaur behavior like the nesting and caring for the young, herd and survival instincts, etc. Instead the book can be paraphrased as follows: "create characters for upcoming movie to find island and get chased by dinosaurs". As I read the book I skipped chunks of pages as this dinosaur crawled through a door, this one leaped high to chomp on one of the kids, or this one chased a motorcycle and then this dinosaur pushed a trailer off a cliff. Great scenes visually but empty and monotonous in the book. Also, the musings regarding evolution just didn't go anywhere. And the abandoned dinosaur factory could have been very intersting but became just another underdeveloped idea that will work just fine in the movie. I generally like Crichton. But I felt like I wasted my time on this book. The movie will be much better.