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 I read this one before seeing the film too January 22, 2008
Sarah J. Marquis (London, England)
I enjoyed the book, it was a little less preachy than the first novel, but still delivered a good adventure. Again, I felt that the film was a missed opportunity. Michael Crichton seems to have something personally against scientists, again his chief protagonist is an arrogant, spoilt rich kid scientist; the fault in assumption was a little more glaringly obvious this time, the message that scientists are obtrusive troublemakers with little thought for the consequences that their actions visit upon the rest of the world in all its innocence, has now been done to death. He needs a new hook.
Jurassic Park Part II October 5, 2007
M. A. Ramos (Florida USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are many fine reviews already listed so I will be succinct. This book is a sequel to Jurassic Park. We join the cast of characters six years after the dinosaur island park disaster in which humans fought off genetically engineered replicas of prehistoric animals. One survivor of that attack is now a member of a group who returns to the area, another island called Site B, and meet up with the remaining dinosaurs. The book does have strong language and violence. Even though it fills like you are reading 'Jurassic Park' again, it is worth reading.
 Brilliant! September 24, 2007
Ms. Yunxie Wu (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Watched the movie first hence I assumed this book would be a movie tie-in, I can't believe how stupid I was! This is soooooooo much better than the movie!! It's a totally different story and just as exciting as "Jurassic Park", very fast page-turner, a sci-fi must read!!!!
Brilliant follow-up pity that the film was so hackneyed January 2, 2007
Jay (Mauritius)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
For some reason, when making 'The Lost World' into a film, Spielberg chose to completely ignore the plot of the book, much to my sorrow. The story of the book involves a similar fact-finding expedition, but here Dodgson (the guy who bribed Nedry in the first book) is on the island trying to further his own purposes. His death is extremely gruesome, and at least that is well shown in the film.
However, I come to think of how Lost World would have existed in the absence of Jurassic Park; wasn't Crichton thinking of the cashing in on the sequel ?
The book is far more action orientated than 'Jurassic Park', with several gripping chases involving the raptors. But the science is not completely gone and is represented by Ian Malcolm's discoveries about the nature of the dinosaurs and their unnatural ecosystem. Crichton has also managed to recapture the sense of wonder so important in the first book.
There are flaws in the book, but they are largely they are continuity problems with JP. For instance, here it turns out that tyrannosaurs can see you if you don't move. And most obviously, the fact that Ian Malcolm (who supposedly died at the end of the 'Jurassic Park' novel) is the main character.
Predictable, pointless, but still fun August 20, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a sequel to "Jurassic Park". If you haven't read that book then do so, it's brilliant. Unfortunately this is a rehash of the same material:- another island, another bunch of people, gnash gnash chomp chomp. What's been lost is the biting and really well researched satire of the biotech industry, that gave "Jurassic Park" a focus and lifted it above the level of just another techno-thriller.That said, Crichton can keep you turning the pages even when you can see what's coming a mile off.
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