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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The Lost World is a lackluster, forced sequel to Jurassic Park, one of my childhood favorites. The fact that I could identify it as such at the age of twelve, when the book was first published, should not bode well for the prospective reader. (  ) BGP | Nov 6, 2009 |  While I liked this book, I wasn't in awe of it like I was with Jurassic Park. The original dinosaur concepts presented in the first book were continued and expanded upon. I felt as though this book was unnecessary, especially since half of the book explained many key points of the original in a effort to make this book capable of being a book that could stand on its own. It was longer than it needed to be considering the amount of wholly new material. (  ) JennSicu | Oct 25, 2009 | This book is what the second movie should have been. It is five years later, and Ian Malcolm is actually alive. He is contacted by Richard Levine, a rich man who is obssessed with finding a "Lost World", or a place where extinction hasn't occurred. Levine wants Malcolm's help, which he gives reluctantly. Then Levine gets stuck on Site B's island, so Malcolm must go rescue him. This book's energy doesn't stop. I really enjoyed it. (  ) aharey | Oct 10, 2009 | This is the follow-up to Crichton's best selling novel, Jurassic Park. It certainly wasn't as entertaining as the 1st novel, but if you enjoyed Jurassic Park, it is not a complete let down. Crichton was a masterful writer, and the novel readers of the world have felt a loss by his passing, RIP Mr. Crichton. ( )1  Ti99er | Sep 23, 2009 | I honestly was disappointed in this follow-up to Jurassic Park. Experiencing deaths in the first person is largely absent in this sequel (with one, slightly redeeming exception). It sounds like a grotesque complaint, but I largely read Crichton for the first-person horror, and that was at its best in the first with characters being eaten alive. Here, Crichton distances the reader from that action. Further, I found the characters to be so one-dimensional that I had a hard time reading the conversations, because I couldn't picture the various people speaking (with the exception of the two children). However, it is still a good, and creative plot, and I really appreciate the strong female characters he creates. Hence the three stars. ( ) gaialover | Aug 14, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0679419462, Hardcover)Written in the wake of Jurassic Park's phenomenal box-office success, The Lost World seems as much a guidebook for Hollywood types hard at work on the franchise's followup as it is a legitimate sci-fi thriller. Which begs the inevitable questions: Is the plot a rehash of the first book? Sure it is, with the action unfolding on yet another secluded island, the mysterious "Site B." Is the cast of characters basically the same? Absolutely, from a freshly minted pair of cute, compu-savvy kids right down to the neatly exhumed chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (who was presumed dead at the close of JP). But is it fun to read? You betcha. Hollywood (and Michael Crichton) keeps telling us the same old stories for a very good reason: we like them. And the pulp SF formula Crichton has mastered with Jurassic Park and The Lost World is no exception. --Paul Hughes(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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