Rating: 
Summary: Better Than Jurassic Park!
Review: This book is really great, but there is a little bit of too much running away from dinos all the time. The introduction of all the new characters was really neat. I cant wait until the movie comes out in Memorial Day
Rating: 
Summary: A disappointing re-hash of the original.
Review: At the end of "Jurassic Park", the dinosaur island was destroyed. But
it turns out that they're still alive on another nearby island.
There's a different team of good guys whose well-planned operation
turns to chaos, and a different team of bad guys who stop at nothing
trying to recover the gene-manipulation technology. Ian Malcom, the
mathematician, is back from the dead to wisecrack us with his chaos-theoretical predictions. There are two different kids getting drawn
into the operation by accident, again demostrating that people beyond
the age of twelve are no good at operating modern computer systems.
And of course there's the main ingredient: a good helping of dinosaurs;
cute pet dinos as well as vicious beasts slashing and eating people alive.
The plot moves along much too predictably. If you haven't read "Jurassic
Park", read it instead, it's so much more original. If you did read it,
read it again; "The Lost World" might give you some bad deja-vus.
Rating: 
Summary: Lost World is a real disappointment
Review: The Lost World is a poor rehash of the original Jurassic Park. I found the book enjoyable and worth reading for the entertainment value, but it had little substance. It didn't answer any questions left from the first JP. What happened to the raptors that made it to Costa Rica? Apparently, nothing. The Lost World brings back Ian Malcolm (who died in the first book), but ignores the other characters. Well, it doesn't completely ignore them in that it reinvents them. The characters are just pitiful replacements for the original characters. Lost World also uses old elements from the JP movie: T-Rex pushing vehicles off cliffs, computer-smart kids, etc. It's a fun read, but it is by no means a great book
Rating:
Summary: Marketing Gimickery Hits New Low
Review: This rehashed Jurassic Park clone is indeed a trite, banal,
witless, juvenile, egregious piece of garbage that will certainly be the LAST Crichton novel I ever read. Crichton
manages a much poorer work than even the worst of his rip-
offs. In this movie-treatment-playing-novel Crichton proves himself as one of the still-existing dinosaurs that
still roam this earth. I weep for the hours I wasted on this trash.
Rating: 
Summary: A sign of things to come from Chrichton?
Review: While the obvious end results practically mirrored that of Chrichton's earlier classic, Jurrasic Park, the side-by-side plot kept me guessing how the team was going to achieve survival. Tandem plots, twists and turns that would never seem to end only lead up to exactly what was originally expected, and the whole book ends almost as if the author ran out of paper and had to think of something quick to end it all.
While the characters were fresh and well-created, something made me visualize them as the same people from JP.
Jurassic Park was a tour-de-force that was a tough act to follow, and The Lost World just doesn't make the sequil that it should have.
Rating:
Summary: 430 PAGES OF EXCITEMENT
Review: Once you pick it up, you can't put it down. Crichton, the master of adventure, has written one of his best. The Lost World lives up to its expectations as the sequal to Jurassic Park. Definitely pick up your copy of this enthralling page turner before the movie comes around
Rating:
Summary: Here we go again...
Review: It's a good book, I'll give it that. But aren't all of
Chricton's books? It's very readable, but it doesn't have
the smoothness or technicality of Jurassic Park. In the
end mearly a rehash that could've been more.
Rating:
Summary: dissapointing to some extent
Review: Felt let down. Looks as if it was a sequal brought out more by monetary considerations rather than by a solid theme
or plot.
Rating: 
Summary: Just another dino tale
Review: I think Mr Crichton didn't want to loose fans, so he didn't intend to make a new plot and a new story.
He grabbed the old one and sticked to it. I felt dissatisfied with the Lost World because I was so anxious to read another tale like the great jurassic Park.
But...nothing new
Rating:
Summary: Happy Happy Joy Joy
Review: Despite all the insulting going on from other critics
I think that Michael Crichton has done it again. If they follow the story line for this novel and turn it into a movie
they are going to have on of the biggest hits of 97 and
perhaps all time on their hands. I was on my Summer break
and couldn't put it down for a second, I was getting insulted
by my friends who were staying with me for reading the whole
time but I didn't care because it was that good. A gripping
tale! Two thumbs up.
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