The Lost World

, #2

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Paperback, 393 pages

English language

Published Nov. 25, 1995 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc..

ISBN:
978-0-7522-2441-1
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OCLC Number:
246910995

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It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.

There are rumors that something has survived....

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

Meh…

While The Lost World has it's moments, it reads as a draft for a movie. Which it is too be honest. Characters are flat, exaggerated stereotypes. Even the dinosaurs are a bit dull.

The whole thing seems rushed, minor mistakes all over the place. I could never get a grip on the layout of the island, the relative distances between locations seemed to vary depending on the need for suspense.

Crichton does show some self awareness tho. Malcom coming back, as "his next iteration" after being "only slightly dead". Riffing on Grant's misconception from the first book about T.rex sight.

Still, this book would have been so much better if Crichton actually -wanted- to write it.