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Summary: a rarity -- better than the first!
Review: Now questions that the first left untouched are answered. The book is so much better than the lame movie, and there are more characters(real ones, not dino lunch add-ins) too. The plot is more streamlined,the characters deeper, and dinosaurs smarter. The book starts off in the intro, not just the prologue. For some reason, rotting dinosaur carcasses have been washing up in Costa Rica, around the same time as a msterious encephalitus breakout.Also, Dr. Malcolm (who denies jurassic park ever existed) discovers an aquantance found a second island and went there. He must go rescue him, no matter how annoying he is. I highly recomend this book to anyone who loves a good adventure story.
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Summary: One of the best books ever written.
Review: The lost world is an excellent book for advanced readers. It has action,suspence and enough pages for a five-hour car trip. It will keep you on the edge of your seat. It is a very good science-fiction book. It's hard to stop reading it. It is also a good book for dinosaur-lovers,but it's too advanced for 8 and 9 year olds.
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Summary: Sequel not equal, but still fun enough to read.
Review: Make no mistake about it, The Lost World was written simply to make a huge amount of money for its author. Lots of mayhem and narrow escapes, but it feels forced and contrived. The characters reaction to the dinos is listless and, unless directly in harms way, almost emotionless. Still when Crichton does whip out the teeth and claws it's a fairly exciting waste of time, just not the experience of the first book. Recommended only to the addicted dino and/or monster movie fan.
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Summary: More dinosaur action
Review: This book was a great book because it was one of the books that got me interested in reading. I read it in 7th grade almost 5 years ago. When a kid is beginning to explore the realm of books and they get a terrible book it may turn them away for a long time. I was lucky to choose this book. When I first read it I hadn't read Jurassic Park so I wasn't looking for it to be a sequel in any way. Now that I've read the prequel let me say that it is kinda weird about Ian Malcom not dying. Didn't they almost totally destroy Isla Nublar? Anyway. Don't let the movie influence your decision to read the book because the movie was terrible in my opinion. The book is great and has none of that crap about a T-Rex rampaging through a city.
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Summary: Michael Crichton's The Lost World
Review: The Lost World is a great book, and even though it was a little confusing at times, it was still very good. It has Ian Malcolm from JP, Sarah Harding, the kids Kelly and Arby, and lots more. The book is very different than the movie, but I can tell what things I saw and what I didn't. I really liked the movie, so I decided to get the book. It would be the movie that I could carry around with me and stop to read it any time I wanted. So get this book!!!
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Summary: Crichton sells out
Review: Let me first say that JP is one of my favorite books and I'm a huge Crichton fan. Given that, I have to say that The Lost World was a huge disappointment for me. It is clear that as a book, it makes a helluva good action film. That's about all there is here. He obviously wrote this book just to sell the movie rights. There's plenty of thrilling action here but all of the magic storytelling of Jurassic Park is gone. The characters are flat and the plot was alot more original when it was done 65 years ago in King Kong. The book is basically a script for the movie, if you've seen it don't bother reading it.
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Summary: How much more can we take?
Review: JP was a hard book to follow in my opinion but Michael Crichton managed to pack as much suspense into this sequel as JP. I only gave it four stars though because although the book was very well written and extremely scary, even though I hadn't seen the second movie, I guessed what was going to happen before turning each page. It was as if the story was predictable from the start. I have no idea if other people felt the same way as me. All I know is, when reading JP, I was bouncing around all over the place. The Lost World, although an excellent story, wasn't as gripping to me. I still recommend you read this book. Especially if you're just a Crichton fan.
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Summary: The Lost World
Review: While Jurrassic Park, also by Michael Crichton was one of the most original and highly enjoyable books i have read, i felt that The Lost World, although containing some new ideas was basically just a re-tread of the first book. Both books contain main heros (Grant/Malcolm) both contain children (Lex and Tim/Arby and Kelly) the strong female role (Sattler/Harding) and the villain (Nedry/Dodgeman). This book did however contain some interesting views of Crichton's that were not included in JP. His well renouned Cinematicly visual and amazingly well researched style make for an interesting and enjoyable read and there are many points were you forget that you have read the same thing once before. Overall a not all together original but still enjoyable read!
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Summary: Even MORE raptors!!!
Review: Even though this book was written following the success of "Jurassic Park" the movie, it's still does a fabulous job of being different and plenty scary. Jurassic Park (not the book, the site) was a disaster. Following the tragedy at the original "theme park" on Isla Nublar, the dinosaurs were killed, the establishment put to rest. All people associated with the original park are forced to sign legal papers, "gag orders" never to talk about John Hammond's BIG mistake. His dream of an amusement park dies with him and the dinosaurs he created. Fast forward a few years.... "dinosaurs" are being spotted and killed in different locations. How could this be now that the original Jurassic Park was destroyed? A feild scientist, Richard Levine believes Ian Malcolm knows the answer. Levine begs Malcolm to go on an expedition with him to Isla Sorna, where many dino-like corpses are turning up. Malcolm tells him it's a bad idea to go and refuses to be a part of any expedition UNLESS Levine can prove the corpses are truly dinosaurus. Levine travels to Isla Sorna alone and isn't heard from for days. Back in the states..a sample of dino tissue shows up at a lab and Malcolm has confirmation that Levine was telling the truth. A team constructed of Malcolm, Thorne, Eddie, and eventually Sarah Harding reach Isla Sorna in an effort to rescue Levine and return home safely. They bring along with them some incredible equipment..Explorers custom built for the terrain; double, custom built "trailers" which contain special lab equipment, and a "high hide" allowing them to view dinos from a safe point of view. All of this equipment becomes interactive within the horrors of the novel! Levine is eventually found, researching what seems to be a natural, thriving, un-fenced island of dinosaurs. They are on the island alone, maintaining their own eco-system. While this is great research for everybody on the island ...including some predatory "bad guys" from Biosyn, who show up to steal dino-eggs...Malcolm wants to leave, and you soon realize Malcolm is right! What's really fantastic about this book is discovering the truth about the first "Jurassic Park" and why this "Site B" exists in the first place. Chrichton won't disappoint. This book and it's plot are quite different from the first. A tip: if you are reading the books in order and watching the movies after...you will be very confused! Hollywood alters the books drastically to make it less "scientific" and more fun and action-packed. The books are better and extremely educational...read both first, THEN see the movies after.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: This book is a great sequel to JP and has a great storyline. Too bad I read it before Jurassic Park ( not really my fault.Saw it at school bookfair and had to buy it because I loved the movie )... This book had action and edge of your seat suspense and I wish the film was as good. My only complaint is that Crichton spent too much time on chaos theory. In a six page chapter took me a school day to read because it was so boring. Besides that fact the book is great.
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