The Lost World

by Michael Crichton, Michael Crichton

mass market paperback

English language

Published May 16, 2012 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-53899-4
OCLC Number:: 1005158064

(14 reviews)

Six years after the death of John Hammond and the mysterious destruction of his Jurassic Park island of Isla Nubla, mathematician Ian Malcolm discovers a second island off Costa Rica, where Hammond created his genetically bred dinosaurs. He travels there with a scientific research team including paleobiologist Richard Levine, Sarah Harding, and two stowaway kids, Kelly and Arby, both 11 years old.

Once on the island, they find themselves on the run for their lives from some of the killer dinosaurs with whom Ian has already crossed paths, along with some new killers. The group not only has to contend with the dinosaurs, but with murderous rival scientist Lewis Dodgson and his cronies, who are out to steal the dinosaur eggs for themselves, as well. ([source][1])

[1]: www.michaelcrichton.com/the-lost-world/

Also contained in: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World

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KnitAFett reviewed The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, #2)

Just didn't do it for me.

2 stars

I loved Jurassic Park when I read it last year and wanted to finish out the duology. This was a rough one to get through.

It was leaps and bounds above the movie still, but after having read the first book and enjoying the crap out of it, this one just flopped. As a stand alone it likely would have been fine.

I almost didn't finish it. You could feel that Crichton did not want to write it, which he did not so it makes sense. I know lots of people still found it a great read so I wouldn't suggest to take my rating to heart. For me it just really fell flat.

flashy_dragon reviewed The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, #2)

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1 star

I made it half-way through the book, before giving up frustrated. I'm sure that I've read this before, but I don't remember it.

Ian Malcom seems to suffer from PTSD from his previous experience at the jaws of dinosaurs, and then seemingly snaps out of it. Also, no one comments (yet) that he's denied InGen's experiments at Jurassic Park, and yet they find this second island with a manufacturing plant for creating dinosaurs with InGen's name all over it?

The island seems too small and too large all at the same time. I felt Isla Nublar was larger, whereas Isla Sorna seems to contract and grow to fit the narrative. It's a short trip from the landing site to the office complex that are "football fields" large, yet the island has an apparent thriving dino population (which, I'm sure if I kept reading, collapses... I can't recall). So... is the island small, or is it large? How have the raptors and the t-rexes not killed everything by now? (probably answered later, but it isn't believable for me now).

And Ian seems differently insufferable than before, and he doesn't have someone to play off of. Instead, we have a second scientist that is more insufferable. I can't stand two of them!

I'm giving up, in part because I have a hard time believing the story, and in part because I just don't care.

Jack Phoenix reviewed The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Jurrasic World, #2)

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3 stars

The Lost World is far superior in plot to the film version, but many of the characters' motivations and much of the action are mired in the over-stretched philosophies and techno-babble.