The Lost World

Isn’t exactly used good condition but there’s a very nice sticker

Read Jurrasic Park for the first time. Loved the movie never thought to read the book. Finally did for what ever reason. And Loved it. Went straight to Lost World and took me forever to get into. But things pick up towards the end and it gets pretty gruesome. Which the last kill in the book was satisfying. Solid ending, but alittle to much of nothing going on the first half.

I do like this book. It is very scientific and if you are someone who is into dinosaurs or scientific documentary or documents, it would be very good for you to read this. If you are somebody who is more worried about the dinosaurs, killing people then actually the scientific part of Jurassic Park this book might be a little bit slow For you. Now the kills are very gory though and very detailed compared to in the movies. I will say I think I liked the first one better.

I enjoyed this book even though I am not a huge science fiction fan. The author is incredibly knowledgeable and a pro on all things dinosaur. It is faced paced and exciting! I would recommend it to anybody! It is a fun read even if you have already seen the movies!

If you loved the Jurassic Park films, The Lost World book takes it to a whole new level. The plot is richer, the characters more developed, and the suspense hits harder than anything in the movie adaptation. Michael Crichton’s writing brings the world of dinosaurs to life in a way that’s smart, intense, and absolutely unputdownable. Highly recommend if you enjoy science fiction with a brain and bite!

This book was alright. It was not really close to as good as Jurassic Park though. I don't know if it was rushed or not but it kinda feels that way. It hit a lot of similar beats to the first book which was good in some places but felt a little over done in others.I think the thing that annoyed me most was the fact that Ian, having experienced everything at Jurassic Park, seemed to have the smallest role. He was pretty much entirely useless and at multiple points almost lead to people dying trying to save him. The entire story would have played out exactly the same had Ian not even been in the story at all.As a character he just didn't make much sense to this story. He knew where the first Park was. He knew there was another site because I'm pretty sure it is talked about in the first book. He knew they were using the islands in Costa Rica. He knew about the dinosaurs being sighted on other islands. He should have been able to figure it out pretty easily. Even the Biosyn guys should have known about it considering they were the ones trying to get the embryos in the first book. It just doesn't make sense.One of the few times I would say the movie was better than the book.

Went on an Andy Weir marathon and I wanted more. I read the Micheal Crichton was a similar style and I happened to have Jurassic Park lying around unread for years. I was blown away with how good it was and needed more. I bought this, chasing the dragon, with low expectations and was blown away again. The second movie was a flop in my opinion, but the book had whole lot more going on.I re-watched the first two movies after and it was fun seeing how they utilized this source material.

Wish we could have a movie that really showed what’s stated in this book page by page. Amazing read, truly recommend.

I had a difficult time putting this book . It was just as good as Jurassic Park if not better.

I enjoyed the reading, Michael Brighton knew how to continue the fantastic world of Jurassic Park, is one of my favorite books of his collection.

Far better than the movie. A small retcon is needed from the first book for this one to work but it's easy enough to accept and well worth it for the story within.

In a departure from the first book action occurs on a different island and with mostly different characters. Ian Malcolm is the main continuing character from the first book. Returning animals are the raptorx and a breeding colony of t-rex. These predators make up the main threat to human survival. Herbivores include paralophosaurus, triceratops, and apatasaurus. All in all good dinosaur science fiction with a gripping plot that at times read like a horror novel.

The lost world is an excellent equal to Jurassic Park, and is totally better than the movie (aside from the soundtrack).

The sequel to my favorite book ever, and I didn't think it would get any better than that. But then I read The Lost World.Yeah it's peak fiction, please give it a read, a review can't do it justice.

Just like the first book this one has a lot of elements from the movie, but has a vastly different cast of characters with some being familiar. Tho it has some similarities to the movie it’s a different story all together. This book however starts off much slower than the first, and the action isn’t as intense as. The characters aren’t as interesting either outside of Sarah Harding and Ian Malcom the others are easily forgotten. I also hate how they introduced what seemed like a more terrifying predator than the raptors or the trex but they were only in the book for like half a chapter which was pretty disappointing . I feel like it should have been the main threat, then the book could have felt more horror than scientific. Still it was definitely an interesting read at least and still worth the time spent on it, I just wish it was a bit scarier like the first book.

The Lost World is the sequel to Jurassic Park. It does help to have some familiarity with the first novel, as there are several plot points that revolve around the first story. However, it’s a rollicking good dinosaur tale nonetheless. One thing I like about Crichton’s books is that you always seem to learn something while you’re being entertained. I don’t have enough medical or scientific knowledge to verify some of the things he mentioned in the book… one thing that is pretty fascinating is the description of dinosaur behavior. I never thought about this before reading his books. He truly brings the prehistoric into the present. I think that’s a gift. Crichton takes what could be a dull and dusty topic, like paleontology, and imbues it with real terror. If you’re faced with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, do you fight? Do you run? Do you stay still?But the most important thing is that “science”seem to be “real” talked about by serious people and scientists. Don’t let that put you off. The book is a page turner and it keeps you interested until the very end.

I'm so torn on this book. I really wanted to love it because I truly enjoyed the first one, but you can tell it was a sequel written by someone who doesn't write sequels.I will try to not really spoil it but I did have a few issues with this book. It makes me wonder what else I may question if I were better versed in other aspects.One of them was the use of "American buffalo." I could excuse everyone but Harding for their misuse of this. She would have correctly called them bison.I loved her character. I could have definitely read more books with her as the main character.It was decent and clearly he put work into it. It felt like a great cheese burger but after a prime rib lunch. It pales in comparison to the OG, but at the same time I don't know if I would have like this as much if it were a stand alone book.Spoiler: The whole scene in the shack. You're going to tell me the thing he was freaking about in the day light was raptors? Counting down in panic? That the carnos couldn't have destroyed the shack? I kept thinking it was going to be big secret animal and then pfft. . .raptors. What a let down.

I first read this book around 1996. I reread this in 2020, and my memory of the book had long been overridden by the Lost World movie, which has a little in common with this book. I also read Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World (from 1912) right before rereading this book, and Lost World Jurassic Park is thankfully much less racist than that one.This sequel to Jurassic Park was not as exciting or as fun as the original Jurassic Park, but it was still good. The plot focuses on several scientists/teachers/professors: Thorne, a wealthy retired professor who now builds highly complex RVs, Richard Levine, a paleontologist, Sarah Harding, a carnivorous animal behavior specialist of some sort, and Ian Malcolm, who we all thought was killed off in the original Jurassic Park (or at least that is what JP book says), but has somehow recovered and is now back to being a mathematics professor. The book also has two children tag along, perhaps as an effort to convince parents that the future movie version of Lost World was family friendly and meant for kids, Arby and Kelly. Past me might have said the kids are annoying and shouldn’t be included, but I actually found that the kids were fine and once again ended up being the much needed computer experts. I especially liked Arby, who has a complicated childhood as an only child with professional yet mostly absentee parents. (Your mileage may vary – the movie version of kids I think was rolled into one child who may or may not have been a little annoying. The kids in the book were fine with me.)The plot focuses on Thorne, Malcolm, and Eddie Carr, an engineer, (and the kids, hiding in the RV) traveling to Isla Sorna (Site B) to rescue Dr. Levine. Sarah Harding shows up a few hours later, to join in the rescue attempt, by hitching a ride with geneticist Lewis Dodgson (the guy who was trying to steal the Dino embryos in the first Jurassic Park book). Dodgson, along with two other colleagues, is still trying to get his own dinos by stealing eggs.Site B was the breeding laboratory for dinosaurs that were then transferred to Jurassic Park, and like most things involving genetics, there was a lot of trial and error before getting things right. This site was abandoned after the whole InGen was shut down after the every of Jurassic Park, and many dinosaurs got out and are now living and breeding on the island (this is background, not part of the actual book plot, although I would read that book).The plot mostly focuses on a.) finding Dr. Levine, b.) studying the behavior of dinosaurs in the “wild”, c.) understanding what is causing the dinos to act more erratic than usual , d.) surviving, and e.) not being killed off by “the bad guys”. The bad guys were never really a threat to anyone except Sarah Harding on the boat, and unlike the movie, there wasn’t a whole troop of guys with guns trying to kill the dinosaurs, mostly just Dodgson, who was trying to steal eggs.Since I’ve just read A.C. Doyle’s Lost World, I would like to mention that Crichton’s Lost World has many more dinosaurs, fewer highly problematic “ape-men” (none), and was a whole lot less racist. I thought Isla Sorna having sheer cliffs making an entrance or exit to the island hazardous was similar to Doyle’s Lost World plateau, but there were not that many similarities between the two. The only small criticism for this book is that the ending seemed anti-climatic to me. There are no big discoveries (other than prion disease, which I had no idea what I prion was when I was 15-16 years old reading this book, but I do now), no big resolutions. This book did not seem that suspenseful, and I was never that worried for most of the protagonists, but that might be because I’ve already read this book and seen the movie.All the familiar dinosaurs from Jurassic Park are back – T-rexes, hadrosaurs, velociraptors, triceratops, as well as a pair of camouflaging predators that can match their backgrounds like chameleons or octopi. Is this a feature of the Indominous Rex in Jurassic World? I’m not sure.Lost World Jurassic Park was fun, escapism fiction for me, and I’m glad I reread it. I struggle with some of Crichton’s later works, when scientists somehow are always the “bad guys”, climate-change denial runs rampant (State of Fear), evil scientists are working on human-chimp hybrids (Next), and I don’t even remember what scientists did wrong in Micro, only that almost all of them were killed off in horrific ways. Those books turned me off to Crichton’s work in general. But, after rereading this one, I think I might continue my reread of Michael Crichton. The two Jurassic Park novels may well be the first science fiction books I ever read, and I have a special place in my heart for these two books.

Ian Malcolm, presumed dead at the end of Jurassic Park, is alive and giving a lecture on Chaos Theory and Extinction when overzealous paleontologist Richard Levine shows up. Levine is tired of studying bones; he’s heard rumors about strange animals in Costa Rica and about Ian Malcolm’s extended stay there. He wants to put together an expedition to locate a “Lost World” where animals survived extinction and are still living in seclusion. Malcolm says no such place exists, but he’ll be happy to help if it’s ever found. As Levine begins to track down the last known rumored site of his Lost World he realizes he’s being monitored and all his careful planning means nothing if he isn’t the first one there. Lewis Dodgson is back and he wants what he paid for: dinosaur eggs. Levine rushes unprepared into the Lost World, forcing Malcolm to organize a rescue party…This was certainly an interesting sequel, although I think it lacked the focus of the first novel. I loved that not one, but two children managed to stowaway on the trailer and, unlike the movie, neither one of them were related to Malcolm. Because in a world where genetically engineered dinosaurs roam free, who needs the added drama of teenagers fighting with absentee dads? I liked that it was, to some degree, Richard Levine’s fault that the kids got dragged into this. Levine’s blind ambition, disregard for human life, and pomposity makes him a hard guy to like; so it’s easier to place blame on an unlikable character than the guy everyone liked from Jurassic Park. But in turn, Ian Malcolm was a little less likeable this time around. His character has had a complete overhaul. Instead of being the know-it-all pessimist who just knows this is a bad idea and wants to spend all his time explaining why… He’s curious. He thinks that somehow studying dinosaurs outside cages will be less dangerous than when they were in them. This is a man who thought dinosaurs were a bad idea before they tried to eat him. Clearly the blood loss from his previous stay in Costa Rica has damaged his brain.Crichton’s characters reunite on the island of Isla Sorna, surprised to find that evidence of human intervention is all around them. This is Site B: InGen’s top secret manufacturing plant. The scientists, unable to stop disease from spreading, released their wards to grow in the wild; offering Levine and Malcolm the unique chance to study dino-behavior. I found most of the explanations as to why dinosaurs behaved a certain way fun, but found it laughable that it never once occurs to anyone throughout the course of the book to sit still, shut up, stay together until the helicopters returned…Although I suppose if they behaved themselves the plot would be about a bunch of people sitting in a tree. The only thing I didn’t like about dinosaur behavior and its explanation: velociraptors as bad parents. The reason given for this is that they were raised in a lab and never learned mothering behavior…But the same could be said for any of the dinosaurs and the other species managed just fine. So that explanation fell short. I suspect it was easier to vilify raptors when they were turning on each other and instead of trying to give an explanation for that behavior, MC should have just left it alone. But I loved the idea of chameleon carnitaurs and feathered T-rex babies. The descriptions of scenery and wildlife were beautifully done and it made up for the parts that made no sense.This book was dramatically different from its movie. The first half of the storyline is spent searching for Levine who is searching for dinosaurs. Sarah Harding is late to the party, not early. Dodgson does not arrive with a mini-army so you kind of know his chances of success aren’t going to be high. The T-Rex’s never get off the island. In the end, the book and the movie only ever share two scenes: 1. the kidnap of a baby T-Rex and 2. the raptors hunting human prey through long grass. Needless to say, if you're a fan of this book you don't need to see the movie...If you're a fan of this movie you're in for a surprise.While I enjoyed this book enough to give it a four star rating, I’m not ashamed to admit I prefer the flashy thrills of the movie version. Bogging the story down with all that science and speculation gave me way too much time to think about all the plot-holes even as the suspense pulled me forward through the pages…

"The Lost World" was much better on paper than it was on film. The film took a great deal of liberties with the story, going as far as adding entirely new characters and plotlines as well as borrowing from "Jurassic Park" to move the story along. This review, however, is of Michael Crichton's wonderful book and not the film loosely based on it.I'm one of those people who usually sees a film before I read the book it is based on. With the "Jurassic Park" flicks, I really enjoyed the first one and hated the second one. With this in mind I was hesitant to pick up either of Crichton's dino books. After reading "Jurassic Park" though, I found that not only was the story different, it was much better. That made me wonder if "The Lost World" would do the same. As expected, "The Lost World" did not let me down. It was almost entirely different from the film. The primary plot of this story is that one Richard Levine is curious to find out if a "lost world" actually exists. He has been researching odd animal findings in and around Costa Rica and believes that somehow a few dinosaurs actually survived extinction. Not knowing about John Hammond's business venture in building a dinosaur park where dinos actually exist, he picks the brain of Dr. Ian Malcolm in hopes to convince him to help him seek out this "lost world." Of course, Malcolm is the wonderfully cynical mathematician from "Jurassic Park." He was thought to be dead but through the wonders of the written word, Crichton revives him. As Levine presses Malcolm for help, he eventually decides to go it alone and ends up trapped on Isla Sorna, also known as Site B. At this point the story drops (for the most part) all arguments over evolution and extinction and becomes a rescue mission. Malcolm, along with the likeable Dr. Thorne, the headstrong Dr. Harding, field technician Eddie Carr and two very intelligent stowaways, sets out to save Levine's life and hopefully protect the secrets of Site B.Of course, no Crichton novel is worth a dime without a decent villain. In this case, we revisit BioSyn's Lewis Dodgson, the catalyst for most of the chaos in the first book. He, along with two counterparts, sets out to collect a few eggs from Site B for his own gain. Dodgson is sinister, calculating and very sure of himself. I'll let you find out for yourself just how much of a problem he becomes in the "lost world."As in "Jurassic Park," Crichton often goes off on long scientific tangents explaining the habits of lions and jackals in Africa. He also gives drawn out explanations on why or why not the dinosaurs were wiped out by asteroids. But just like in his first dino book, Crichton pours out this information in a way that, to me, doesn't bring the action to a screeching halt. I enjoy reading these little tidbits of scientific information, but I can see where others might find them to be a bit too much info to take in while your being attacked by velociraptors.Many reviewers find this book to be subpar. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that it is a sequel. Sure, Malcolm shouldn't be back in action, but he's such a fun character that I'm willing to let Crichton slide here. I'll also concede that doctors Harding and Thorne closely resemble Grant and Sattler from the first book. I'll also admit that the two kids are nothing more than a rehash of Hammond's grandchildren. However, Crichton puts a very good spin on an old tale with "The Lost World." In my opinion it moves at a much faster pace than its predecessor. Although the characters aren't very well developed, we are given enough information to care about or hate most of them. Also, there are quite a few differences between the actions and even the biological makeup of many of the dinos in this book and "Jurassic Park," but these differences do help to move the book along."The Lost World" isn't a perfect book. It revisits old territory but still manages to give the reader a lesson or two about extinction and chaos theory. I give it five stars because it works wonderfully as an action yarn and it's nice to catch up with one of my favorite characters, Ian Malcolm.Highly recommended.