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Title: The Lost World by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0-345-40288-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (501 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Extinction
Comment: Life on earth has been marked by a steady amount of extinction. Ian Malcolm, mathematician gave a talk entitled "Life at the Edge of Chaos." Two self-organizing behaviors are of significance to evolution, adaptation and the location of complex systems at the edge of chaos. A person in the audience proposed that dinosaurs had not become extinct and that somewhere there was a lost world. Richard Levine, the curious millionaire paleontologist, sees an aberrant form in Costa Rica. It is not a lizard. Aberrant forms are always destroyed. They seem to be attracted by the soy bean fields. Rain forest is a good environment for concealment. Costa Rica has one of the richest ecologies in the world.
Ian Malcolm and Richard Levine engage in a an arm chair search of the string of islands off of the Costa Rica coast. The wildly fluctuating Levine is seized with one of his enthusiasms and sets off on an adventure dragging other characters in the book in his wake as events unfold. I loved CONGO and JURASSIC PARK and so had looked forward to reading this book.
In a sneak visit to the site, Levine's guide is suddenly snatched away from him. He had been entranced to see a maussaur, the tiniest dinosaur. There were rumors that unknown animals were showing up in Costa Rica.
The book focuses on two children, assistants to Richard Levine and Thorne, a retired engineering professor. Thorne is something of a materials scientist. The children, Arby and Kelly, are appealing. When the trio reached Levine by satellite phone they detected distress and endeavored to try to find him. They did not realize initially that he was probably in the vicinity of Costa Rica.
At Levine's apartment they discover he had been recovering InGen (JURASSIC PARK) files from an old computer. At Ian Malcolm's office some suspicious photographers had taken a snapshot of the map in his office showing the supposed sites of lost worlds identified by Malcolm and Levine. Malcolm phoned Levine's office to tell him the map was no longer secure and reached Thorne. Thorne, Malcolm, and the children think they can determine Levine's location through the recovered files. It is Isla Sorna. Sarah Harding, a biologist studying hyenas in Africa would meet them there.
Reverse engineering is industrial espionage. Lewis Dodgson practices reverse engineering. He and a man named Rossiter seek to acquire the InGen technology in order to fabricate lab animals to stymie protestors impeding the research agenda in biotechnology areas.
It is learned that extinction of the recreated dinosaurs may have hinged on something akin to mad cow disease. The adventure is far-fetched and exciting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lost World is Found
Comment: I think i have found my favorite book at last! . I actully read this book before jurrasic park which may seem silly but it edged em on to read more of Michael Crichton's books. It si all about a group of scienctist's exploring an island they beilive has prehistoric animals roaming it. The discover dinosaurs have formed life here and study them. Unlike some reviews state, i think this si probably one of the best books i have ever read. Though i do agree i see no connection with this book to jurrasic park which i have now read) i think it is much more like ' real life ' with the excepton that there are dinosaurs....
Rating: 4
Summary: The Lost World - The Dinosaur Tale
Comment: Packed to the brim with action, suspense, and drama The Lost World by Michael Crichton is a novel that will be read for generations to come. Doctor Ivan Malcom just gets back from a terror theme park (Jurassic park) and he is off again to a dinosaur filled island to save his work college Levine. The islands name Site B. Once on the island he encounters gentle giants such as the triceratops, brontosaurus and the stegosaurus along with the fearsome raptor, carnotaurus sastrei, and Tyrannosaurus. He observes them from a supposedly safe place The High Hide before disaster strikes and a fearsome T-Rex destroys all lab equipment. To make matters worse all forms of transportation off the island are gone and nobody knows they are there. Will they survive? This book is an excellent example of courage, nobility and most of all companionship. This book is my all time favorite and should be treated like royalty.
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Title: Timeline by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345417623 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sphere by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345353145 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Airframe by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345402871 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345378482 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 20 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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