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thejunglebookie 's review for:
Jurassic Park / The Lost World
by Michael Crichton
slow-paced
So Ian wasn’t dead!! But he was stuck in the Costa Rican hospital for weeks on end then was allowed to leave like sattler and grant once he signed a bajillion NDA agreements. However, there is apparently a site B & a bunch of new “lizards” have been discovered all over Costa Rica but the government is erasing all the evidence because they recently have a raise in a new strange disease and they believe the new lizards are responsible but they sacred to frighten away tourists so they’re trying to keep it on the down low. Levine sending two seventh graders all over town during the school day as his “assistants” doesn’t seem very believable though especially considering he was sending them around to pick up stuff for his secret expedition — you’re telling me he would trust that kind of invaluable research to a 13 & an 11 year old he “teaches” because of community service requirement. Not to mention Thorne is letting them come in and be around his crazy trailer expedition equipment ? Idk I call bullshit.
Similarities from the movies: Sarah Harding is a character (but she looks different and is married to someone else since her and Ian apparently broke up). Eddie Car (the tech guy) is involved in this expedition too! Except Eddie in the book is a lot younger and in better shape. There was a baby TREX whose leg was injured but it wasn’t part of a trap it’s because Dodgeson accidentally stepped on its leg while stealing an egg from the nest.
Differences: really jumps into the science aspect (i.e. of what shows up on the tissue samples and how it correlates to the avian kingdom more than the reptilian kingdom, blah blah blah) more so than the first book and a lot more so than the movie. Although there was a girl named Kelly that stowed away in a trailer she wasn’t Ian’s kid she was one of the two random 7th graders Levine was having help him. Also, biosyn wants the Dino’s not to recreate another park but to help them with their animal testing issues. They figured if they made a dinosaur then they own it and the Dino has no rights because they’re technically extinct and since they have systems almost identical to human systems then the testing could be invaluable to the biosyn company if they used them as test subjects instead of dogs/rats/monkeys/etc. They don’t end up saving the baby trex’s injured leg— instead, Eddie shoots it.
This book dwells too much into the details of evolution and other animal and plant like processes and not enough on character building or development. Everyone’s personality seems so dry — there’s no depth.
Similarities from the movies: Sarah Harding is a character (but she looks different and is married to someone else since her and Ian apparently broke up). Eddie Car (the tech guy) is involved in this expedition too! Except Eddie in the book is a lot younger and in better shape. There was a baby TREX whose leg was injured but it wasn’t part of a trap it’s because Dodgeson accidentally stepped on its leg while stealing an egg from the nest.
Differences: really jumps into the science aspect (i.e. of what shows up on the tissue samples and how it correlates to the avian kingdom more than the reptilian kingdom, blah blah blah) more so than the first book and a lot more so than the movie. Although there was a girl named Kelly that stowed away in a trailer she wasn’t Ian’s kid she was one of the two random 7th graders Levine was having help him. Also, biosyn wants the Dino’s not to recreate another park but to help them with their animal testing issues. They figured if they made a dinosaur then they own it and the Dino has no rights because they’re technically extinct and since they have systems almost identical to human systems then the testing could be invaluable to the biosyn company if they used them as test subjects instead of dogs/rats/monkeys/etc. They don’t end up saving the baby trex’s injured leg— instead, Eddie shoots it.
This book dwells too much into the details of evolution and other animal and plant like processes and not enough on character building or development. Everyone’s personality seems so dry — there’s no depth.