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  <title><![CDATA[The Lost World]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Lost World: Jurassic Park Junior Novelisation captures all the thrills and chills of The Lost World story - with heart-stopping suspense, hair-raising action, and illustrated with colour photographs from the film. Something has survived...In 1993, an ambitious entrepreneur named John Hammond spoke four words which ushered in a new era of motion picture excitement and set worldwide boxoffice records...&quot;Welcome to Jurassic Park&quot;. Now, a few years later, Hammond makes a startling confession to scientist Ian Malcolm: another island of dinosaurs exists...an island where dinosaurs have been living and breeding in the wild...the Lost World.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael Crichton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[WOW, this was disappointing.<br/><br/>I remembered going into this book that I had enjoyed the film version of the original Jurrasic Park far more than the book -- a rather unusual situation for me.  I had a slight feeling of apprehension, but I ignored it.  Even if I hadn't, though, it wouldn't h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17190630">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Basically the usual good Michael Crighton stuff, interesting ramblings and speculations about science (in this case, the role of extinction in evolution). Certainly readable and enjoyable, but the plot line was not as solid as it could and should have been.<br/><br/>[Plot discussion follows]<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14989721">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 25 11:37:50 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find a lot of people discuss the &quot;resurrection&quot; of Ian Malcolm in their reviews, and I'd like to throw in my two cents.  It's true, Malcolm is mentioned as dead at the end of Jurassic Park.  To be exact, Muldoon is telling Grant what's happened to everyone else as they're flying away in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6776401">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 05 07:30:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from <em>The Lost World</em>: The only people worthy of surviving in Crichton's world are geniuses.  Everyone else is destined to be fodder/feed for terrorizing thunder lizards.<br/><br/><em>The Lost World</em> suffers from two things: First off, if you've ever read <em>Jurassic Park</em>, then you know that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5700714">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Dec 12 11:12:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ian Malcolm is alive (!? don't ask) and goes to the mysterious Site B for Jurassic Park with some gung-ho people set of studying dinosaurs and plucky kids BUT they face dinosaurs and humans.  Jurassic Park 2 (the movie) didn't use much of this book for its script...Having seen Jurassic Park 2 that w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39955201">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read <em>Jurassic Park</em> about a million years ago, and I've always wanted to read this one.  Neither of them is really &quot;my&quot; kind of book, but they do hold some fascination for me, in their own little ways.  And I have to say, this one didn't disappoint!  When I started this, I couldn't even r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47793781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54748364">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lost World is another island entirely where InGen began their quest for a theme park, embarking on a project of which they had little understanding. But their trials, errors, hits, misses, and major blunders had to start somewhere and that place was Site B. Now, Ian Malcolm (surprise! he didn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54748364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73630493">
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Chrichton<br/>The Lost World<br/>Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1995<br/>393 pp. $9.99<br/><br/><br/>	<br/>Imagine a place that was stopped in time still having inhabitants of the Crustacean period living there. This is the place where four scientists and two children seek out to find and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73630493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50178002">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 23 10:36:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several years ago I read Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton.  Since I am a huge science nerd, this book quickly became one of my favorites.  The sequel, The Lost World, is also a good book, and worth reading.  I wouldn't say that the sequal is much inferior to the original book, but it feels anti-cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50178002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45156391">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as awesome as JP. I will say that the way that Dodgeson dies is brutal and totally satisfying, and probably earned the book another star on its own. It seemed more obvious in this one that Crichton was just inserting himself as Ian Malcolm again, to send him off on another Morphine inspired phil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45156391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58714980">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as the first one.  Felt pretty unnecessary in all.  Also, Dr. Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum's character from the movie) is really out of character when he agrees to go back to a dino island.  He spent the whole first book trashing the enterprise and saying it would fail, which he does in this b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58714980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished reading The Lost World last night. I didn't find it as satisfying as Jurassic Park, though...perhaps there just wasn't enough dinosaur activity for me, the animals didn't seem the same. maybe it's just me, but I never quite figured out the cause of all the dead apatosaurs. I probably read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58335024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78235073">
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    <body><![CDATA[With the possible exception of the new dinosaur introduced, The Lost World is, unfortunately, simply Jurassic Park again. Two children characters? Check. Early cynic deaths? Check. Raptor fights? Check. In the end, I would much rather simply read Jurassic Park a second time.<br/><br/>That having b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78235073">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually liked <em>The Lost World</em> more than I like <em>Jurassic Park</em>.  The kids in this book were better.  They were intelligent and an important part of the story.  They weren't two kids who needed to be protected but helped to protect.  I really liked the relationship between Sarah Harding and Kelley.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65668305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I really enjoyed <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7677.Jurassic_Park_Spanish_Edition_" title="Jurassic Park (Spanish Edition) by Michael Crichton">Jurassic Park</a>. I felt that it was written very descriptively and quite vividly, almost to a point where reading it scared me a little bit. But where <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7677.Jurassic_Park_Spanish_Edition_" title="Jurassic Park (Spanish Edition) by Michael Crichton">Jurassic Park</a> excelled, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8650.The_Lost_World" title="The Lost World by Michael Crichton">The Lost World</a> fell extremely short. There were pages and pages of description on evolution theories and ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33181621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[      <em>The Lost World</em> is a novel by Michael Crichton which is full of adventure and the trill of surprise. It starts with a surprise because Dr.Ian Malcom is alive after he incident at Isla Nublar a few years earlier.. He returns to America to continue teaching and meets Richard Levine, a spoiled gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32915474">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 08 08:45:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 08 09:00:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jurassic Park was pretty good, but this book was rather poor. It reads like a bad movie. The author is so intent upon pushing Chaos Theory upon the reader that he often forces the characters to behave way, way, WAY out of their habits in order to force things to go wrong.<br/><br/>People suddenly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32334792">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 08 00:01:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is amazing, though not the sort of book I normally read. I don't know, maybe Michael Crichton has (had?) the ability to actually capture my attention even though half the stuff in his novels (I've only read this book and the first part) would normally put me to sleep. <br/><br/>The chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9578036">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whereas <em>Jurassic Park</em> at least doubled as an excuse to teach people a little about genetics, <em>Lost World</em> is an unabashed adventure book cashing in on the fame. To that end, Crichton sets out a quirky story of people sneaking onto a dinosaur-infested island, screwing around, and ultimately running for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4701556">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lost Word was fantastic. Crichton doesn't fool around when it comes to suspense and I always learn something. He hits heavily on evolution being what makes life go around which I don't necessarily agree with, but I learned a lot about how life works in a species. <br/><br/>The story is well plot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61305613">more...</a>]]></body>
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