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A review by vanessakm
The Lost World: The Junior Novelization by Gail Herman
3.0
I have no idea what possessed me to pick this up nearly 20 years after reading the original other than concentrating on reading in the middle of a miserable Midwest winter is hard y'all. I needed airport reading. And if you do too, this book fits the bill perfectly. You'll have to get over the minor gripe that Jurassic Park (the book) implied that Ian Malcolm was dead at the end of course. But once you do, the story is a worthy sequel and he is admittedly a great character. Bonus-this story has virtually nothing in common with the movie.
In this version, dead dinos have been washing up on the shore of Costa Rica. The government has been trying to cover it up but it has attracted attention in the scientific community, both with the now bankrupt InGen's competitors and a certain obnoxious but brilliant paleontologist who is also a colleague of Ian Malcolm's. Soon two groups find themselves on the second abandoned research island where InGen's true genetics lab was. One team is there for research and one for cupidity. Crichton comes up with a perfectly plausible explanation for the second island which succeeds in making the book seem like a sequel not entirely conceived out of greed. Kid stowaways are in tow for this version as well, but thankfully neither are Malcolm's obnoxious daughter like in the movie. There's plenty of science and pontificating by Malcolm to make this thoughtful and enjoyable. I avoided reading this for a long time, but it was a fun book after all.
In this version, dead dinos have been washing up on the shore of Costa Rica. The government has been trying to cover it up but it has attracted attention in the scientific community, both with the now bankrupt InGen's competitors and a certain obnoxious but brilliant paleontologist who is also a colleague of Ian Malcolm's. Soon two groups find themselves on the second abandoned research island where InGen's true genetics lab was. One team is there for research and one for cupidity. Crichton comes up with a perfectly plausible explanation for the second island which succeeds in making the book seem like a sequel not entirely conceived out of greed. Kid stowaways are in tow for this version as well, but thankfully neither are Malcolm's obnoxious daughter like in the movie. There's plenty of science and pontificating by Malcolm to make this thoughtful and enjoyable. I avoided reading this for a long time, but it was a fun book after all.