The Lost World or to most of us known as Jurassic Park II, is the sequel to Jurassic Park, a movie and book that involves dinosaurs and a lot of them.
As it went completely haywire in Jurassic Park, there had to be a sequel to all that mayhem.
The Lost World is actually about a second island in Costa Rica, where they used to grow the dinosaurs before they were put on display in the Recreation Park. When the Park failed, the island was abandoned to the dinosaurs still living there and mum was the word. Handsome fees were paid to anyone involved to keep their mouth shut, Ingen (the company behind Jurassic Park) went bankrupt and for almost a decade the world didn't know about an island filled with dinosaurs.
Oh, there were a few incidents, but nothing the Costa Rican government couldn't handle, which they did tremendously because they didn't want tourism to falter because of a dino island.
And that's were the narration starts again.. 10 years later. Malcolm is still one of the main characters, but mostly in the first part of the novel. He's not so much 'there' when everything becomes exciting and life-threatening. There are other characters, such as Sarah Harding, who seems to be a total badass woman. Dr Levine, an obnoxious paleontologist, whose responsible for the party to be out there. Two kids, who have hitch-hiked along. A few others.
The story was not too bad, I had the idea Michael Crichton wrote the story around his ideas of dinosaur behavior, which is kind of self-gratifying.
Expect a mix of narration, scientific explanation seasoned with a pretty awesome action scene.
I must complement on that.
It's not common to come across an action scene which is so well written it gets the heart pumping. It was almost an actual movie scene and I regret they didn't put that in the movie. It was pretty awesome.
I liked this novel sufficiently to finish it, but not much more than that. I'll end with a warning though, for those out there who think that the novel resembles the movie, you're mistaken. Apart from a few characters and locations, the two take their story in a completely different direction.
