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Summary: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Review: When Strange, reptillion forms wash up on the beaches of Eastern Costa Rica, Ian Malcolm thinks that it might have something to do with a project he is working on called Site B. After careful research, he, as well as others, finds out where Site B is located. Unfortunetly, so does Dr. Dodgson, the head of a company called BioSyn. he goes to the island to retrieve some dinosaurs. Meanwhile, Ian choses to go to the island with a group of people to do some research. while there, he finds that two children, Arby and Kelly, have snuck aboard the vehicles. he must now take care of them while protecting everyone else on the island.
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Summary: Re: Michael Crichton at his best!
Review: First there was Jurassic Park, the book- then the movie. Then The Lost World book, then the movie. But, alash! I think these two books are the first books that I find better then the movies. And now, we have Jurassic Park 3 coming out as a movie. Please, Michael Crichton- write a book on it! These two books may not have started on my top ten list out of the five hundred books I have (trust me, I am not joking!) but now that I have read them, if I could put them higher then the top ten, I would. These aren't my avarage kind of books-I'm more into Charmed, and Sweet Valley, and Buffy- but out of all of the books I have read out of those, none of them have kept me on my toes- or had me as high as Jurassic Park. I got Jurassic Park and The Lost World for my 14th birthday, and I think- apart from my mobile phone!- these two books, out of all the books I got, were my most treasured gift. I have been a Jurassic Park fan sincr the movie came out, and I was eight. My mother went to see the movie and she didn't like it that much- so I knew I would love it! Oh, sorry Mum- I don't want to insult you. When I read The Lost World, I kept getting visions of the movie, just as I did when I read Jurassic Park. But, I tell you, this book was better; it was something I liked that I could read!
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Summary: Book Review of The Lost World
Review: Book Review of The Lost World The Lost World, by Michael Crichton, is the sequel to his book Jurassic Park. The book takes place on a small island off the coast of Costa Rica. This is where genetically engineered dinosaurs roam free. This island is the manufacturing plant for the dinosaurs that were highlighted in the theme park/safari zone Jurassic Park. Now the dinosaurs have been set free, in the hopes that they would die out. However they did not die. Now the stuck up, rich, and dinosaur loving colleague of Ian Malcom, has gone to the island by himself to try and study the dinosaurs. Ian immediately mounts a rescue mission, including himself, a man who designs safari vehicles, the man's assistant, and calls up a woman who studies lions in Africa. They set off for the island, hoping that they are not too late. Unknown to them, though, two computer savvy kids stow away aboard one of the vehicles. Meanwhile, Lewis Dogson, a bio-engineer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, also sets off for the island, hoping to get some dinosaur eggs. The dinosaurs have other plans. Raptors, deadly six foot high creatures with six inch long ripping claws, hunt anything that moves. The towering T-rex, protecting its young, will kill anything that comes close. Pachysepholosaurus, with ten inch thick skulls, rams into anything it finds threatening(which is almost anything) at great speed. Will any of the humans see the mainland again? Or will they be destroyed, one by one, by the vicious dinosaurs? Michael Crichton's writing style is superb. His descriptions of both the dinosaurs and the island are equal to the magnificent descriptions in Jurassic Park. The behavior and actions of the dinosaurs create a clear mental image. The plot is mediocre, mostly because it is formatted exactly like Jurassic Park. Overall, the book will most likely meet the standards of anyone who enjoyed Jurassic Park. I would not, however, recommend this to anyone under the age of ten years old. There is some swearing in it, and the deaths of people are vividly described. However, for anyone over ten, this book is great! I give five out of five stars.
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Summary: Escape or Survive
Review: The book The Lost World, by Michael Crichton, is an action book. It first starts off when a group of scientists find out about an island that has dinosaurs on it. A group of people then goes to the island to explore it. On the island they bring all kinds of research equipment to help study the dinosaurs. But, another group of scientists goes to the island to steal the dinosaurs' eggs. The dinosaurs don't like that they are doing this. The equipment fails and gets destroyed by the dinosaurs. On the last day before the helicopter comes to get them. All of the equipment is destroyed and they are forced to live in the lost world. Will the scientists get back okay or will they be forced to live on the dinosaurs' island.
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Summary: Overall Great Book
Review: I thought this book was great. It is pretty gory and I would not recommend for those with a weak stomach and a good imagination. You can tell he wrote it to be made into a movie like many of his novels. You did not have to read Jurassic Park to understand this one. Overall it was a very good book.
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Summary: I read this book in 2 days it was so good
Review: This is the best book you'll ever read. It is nothing like the movie it is ten times better the movie. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Chaos at hand
Review: The nature of The Lost world is--unnatural. Chaos is delved into with a shovel and sometimes human hands. Crichton has an amazing ability to flesh out the world of science and combine his findings with fiction that will satiate the pallates of contemporary readers, scientists looking for a getaway, et al. The movie was a bust and is nothing like the book--a sad fact. The book is technologically exciting and has philosophical underpinnings as well. Read Lost World, it is the better compliment to Jurassic Park.
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Summary: 3 1/2 Stars: Disappointing
Review: I am not just talking about the book. I am talking about Crichton, this is the first book of his that was not a fresh idea. This book is essentially Jurassic Park, but with a couple of slight changes. I really disliked the fact that Crichton resurrected Ian Malcolm. He could have easily built the story around Grant, or Muldoon, or he could have introduced somebody new. The characters aren't well developed at all, the plot of the two is identical. It just can't measure up. All in all, this book is the weakest yet by Crichton, but still not too bad compared to everything else out there.
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Summary: Some random thoughts about "Lost World":
Review: 1.) This is an okay book, neither as good as it's fans claim, nor as bad as its detractors say. 2.)It is, however, a lousy sequel to "Jurassic Park"; for one thing, it does not follow the obvious plotline Crichton set out at the end of "Jurassic Park" (the dinosaurs escaping to the jungle) for the planned sequel. For another, contrary to what Crichton claims at the beginning of this book, which claim is defended by his obsequious fans among the reviewers, Ian Malcolm was quite thoroughly dead at the end of "Jurassic Park", sufficiently much so that it rated a comment which I quote: "They (the Costa Rican government) did not even permit the burial of Hammond or Ian Malcolm." If the story had been told in the first person, and this comment had come from the mouth of a fallible character, Crichton's claim in "Lost World" that rumors of Malcolm's death had been erroneous would have been plausible. But the story was told in the third person, omniscient narrator style; that quote came from the mouth of the author, and can not, therefore, be set aside so easily. Yet here in "The Lost World", that is exactly what Crichton tries to do: he claims that rumors of Malcolm's death were greatly exaggerated. 3.) Why does he do this? It's pretty obvious, actually, and I'm astounded that none of the other 400+ reviewers here seem to have figured it out. It has nothing to do with needing to bring him back to make the book match the movie sequel; nothing else in the book matched the movie, so what makes anyone think that Crichton or the producers would care if that detail was different? No, it has to do with the fact that if Malcolm isn't available, Crichton doesn't have anyone handy to spout chaos theory, and he neither wants to leave out his pet psuedoscience, nor create a brand-new chaotician character to act as his mouthpiece. Understandable, but not really forgivable; if he needed to keep Malcolm alive for the sequel, he shouldn't have killed him off in the first place. Very careless. 4.) One of the weakest points in the plot is the fact that I find it extremely implausible that Malcolm would even CONSIDER going anywhere near the island once the suggestion was made that there might, again, be dinosaurs on it. After what he'd been through in "Jurassic Park", and given what we know of his character, it seems highly out of character for him to so readily join the expedition. There should at least have been serious soul-searching, or a more pressing reason for him to go. As it was, he seemed almost eager: 'Oh, the dinosaurs may not all be dead after all? Well, in that case count me in!' Just not at all in character, but then again, see comment #3; Crichton needed him to be there, so he was there. Never mind what the character would really do. 5.) There is almost NOTHING in common between the novel, "Lost World", and the movie, "The Lost World". There are two characters in common, plus one character in the movie who is sort of a pastiche of two of the characters in the book (Thorne and Eddie are sort of combined into one), and I think there was one scene that was similar; I don't remember the movie well enough to be certain. But seriously, that's IT. I've never seen a movie have less in common with the book it's named after (I won't even say 'based on', 'cause it really WASN'T!). All in all, a tolerably good action-adventure novel, but don't expect it to follow logically from "Jurassic Park", or to bear any resemblance to the movie version.
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Summary: Crichton Strikes Back
Review: Building upon the charisma that Mr. Crichton established for himself with Jurassic Park, he has pulled through with a sequel that has proved to be nearly as successful as its predecessor. After finding dinosaur carcasses washed up on the beaches of Costa Rica, Ian Malcom is teamed with other field specialists to travel to an island known as Site B. The island was originally developed as a breeding ground for many of the dinosaurs, which were then shipped to Isla Sorna. A prehistoric environment is apparently thriving, and the group is sent to study the habitat. However, they must race against the same group that hired Dennis Nedry to steal embryos from Isla Sorna. This time, however, they're after eggs and live dinosaurs. The book's plot is not quite as established as that of Jurassic Park, but The Lost World is still a great read and I highly recommend it.
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