#I quite enjoyed the movie based-on-the-book by Michael Crichton*

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~I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a Sphere.* Fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here, pouring out my heart to a stranger, but I didn't pour the whiskey.

I just wanted you to know that-"

(This is me tryin'.)

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MICHAEL CREIGHTON'S ANDROMEDA STRAIN

Continuing in the footstep of Michael Chrichton are two movies based on his book "The Andromeda Strain" 1971 and 2008. Personally I enjoyed more the later. But you can be the judge of that if you are up to it.

Following, however, is an excellent movie review of the 1971 film which will keep you on hold, which I recommend a watch and listen.

881-1 link: https://youtu.be/22JDTcrbcr0

The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science fiction thriller film produced and directed by Robert Wise. Based on Michael Crichton's 1969 novel of the same name and adapted by Nelson Gidding. The film base book deals with a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin on the verge of wiping out all human life. With a few exceptions, the film follows the book closely. The special effects were designed by Douglas Trumbull. The film is notable for its use of split screen in certain scenes. (The Andromeda Strain (film) - Wikipedia).

THE FILM...

881-2 LINK: https://ok.ru/video/3297335577129

The Andromeda Strain is a 2008 science fiction miniseries, based on the 1969 novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin. The miniseries is a "reimagining" of the original novel rather than an adaptation. In addition to updating the setting to the early 21st century, the miniseries makes a great many plot and character changes from its source. The mini-series has two episodes for a total of 169 minutes. (The Andromeda Strain (miniseries) - Wikipedia)

THE FILM...

881-3 LINK: https://ok.ru/video/1764023470673

The Andromeda Strain mini-series received mostly negative reviews from critics. The Hartford Courant called it an "entertaining piece of high-velocity intrigue." The Boston Globe found it unoriginal, although "sometimes engaging." The Los Angeles Times calls it "overwrought and dull" and criticizes its divergence from the original story. Entertainment Weekly complained about the slow pace and stated that "the cluttered remake mires itself in lab work, inane backstories, and bureaucracy." The New York Times stated that "it never grows quite suspenseful enough." (The Andromeda Strain (miniseries) - Wikipedia)

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Colorado Fun! Summer 2019 Part 1: Prehistoric Adventures

Greetings from Colorado! It was sure a wild trek I took a few weeks ago. It was so cool to visit some of the old hot spots and the new places. This was a photo of me taken at one of my favorite Dinosaur Museums. This place is called the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center. It has a lot of cool things in it. It may be a small little place but it has quite the collection. Here I am behind a model of a Megalodon’s Jaws. These suckers got huge. They wouldn’t have to bite just to swallow you whole. I am so tiny compared to this set of Shark Chompers. It was kind of freaky yet cool. I got a lot of neat photos so lets get started. Just a warning you will be hearing and reading a lot of Jurassic Park related stuff in this posting. 

Okay so you know I can’t pass up a Jurassic Park post it is one of my favorite movies of all time. This one is at the same place as the Meg jaws. This poster I am next to is an authentic original Jurassic Park (1993) Poster. I have all the movies and now the original books. Jurassic Park has had a big impact on my life and I enjoy the whole series. The movies are great and the books are even better. I have been a big fan and no trip to a Dinosaur museum is never complete without some references to classic Dinosaur films from the Sliver Screen. Did you notice my clothes? I thought you did. Yep I wore my Jurassic Park button down and my Jurassic World Raptor shirt for this trek. I went all out and even wore my fossilized Shark Tooth Necklace. I always have a theme when I got to certain places or at least I try to. 

On the other side of the theater area they have another authentic poster from my favorite JP movie in the series. This is an original poster from The Lost World: Jurassic Park which came out in 1997. This was so cool to see posters from the two best Jurassic Park films ever created. I really enjoy finding Jurassic Park based things. I just crazy about stuff like this. I really enjoy the novels that Michael Crichton wrote back in the 90s as well as the movies. I like both types of media and I know that when this movie came out many fans of the book were pretty outraged by the movie not being like the book like we saw with the first movie which did follow pretty close to the book with a few plot differences and things. Jurassic Park for me is one thing I really enjoyed growing up with I have some of the Toys, a Jurassic Park bed sheet set, all of the movies that does include the Jurassic World stuff. I have the Lego Jurassic World Video Game for the Nintendo 3DS, I have played countless Jurassic Park games including the Rampage Edition, the NES Jurassic Park game, the SNES game, I have played the demo for Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, I have played Jurassic Park Builder for Android, Jurassic World the Game, and Jurassic World: Alive. i even have the Jurassic Park: Danger board game. I am just a huge fan of this and have several shirts and things that I wear pretty often. I wasn’t able to watch the films until I was older. I was I was about ten or eleven when I was finally able to watch the films. Ever since I was able to watch them my mind was blown and I became an instant fan. Of course I did collect  the toys way before I saw the movies I have several that I might post in post of their own in a collection of my collectibles that I have collected over the years of being a huge fan of many things. Still a pretty cool find in one of the coolest museums on the planet. 

One of the coolest things about this museum is that they have the third Largest Tyrannosaurus-Rex. It used to be the second almost topping Sue; but in recent years there is another one that has been discovered to be even taller than Sue. Still this monster is one of my favorite dinosaurs and has always been my favorite since I was kid and it is one of my favorites in the Jurassic Park franchise. Tyrannosaurus-Rex was not really an active hunter but more of a scavenger. It’s teeth are kind of dulled out and only used for ripping and swallowing whole instead of chewing. What is the deal with the tiny little stubby arms you ask? It has been up for debate for years but some thing that they played a part in the mating ritual of this species but we are not too sure about that. It is just speculation which paleontology is all about. Still a fantastic and giant creature from the last Cretaceous period. 

 One of my favorite shark fossils is this one. This is an almost complete spinal region and skull of a shark. It maybe the only one in existence so far as we know. This is kind of a really interesting rarity. As we know Shark skeletons are made of cartilage and it often breaks down and deteriorates after a while but in this is one of those rare fossils of cartilage. It is kind of neat and this shark may looks small but it is pretty large. The photos don’t really do it justice than experiencing these fossils in person. Lets look at another cool fossil shall we. 

What is this weird creature? Is it an alien? Well it is from a time very different from our own. This is the Giant Ground Sloth and my brother and I saw this guy being put together on a display stand. This is one of the weirdest creatures. You may have heard of the Horse Apple or Bois De’ Arc tree. Well the horse apple was a favorite food of this species as well as the mammoths that lived here thousands of years ago. This one was pretty young and just a little taller than me. I am about 5′ 9″ and these guys could get up to ten foot tall so this guy was not even close to being done growing. This guy is kind of a weird dumpy animal but it is quite interesting to look at. It was kind of cool to see all kinds of extinct animals other than Dinosaurs. There was a bunch of neat stuff at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. 

As a huge Jurassic Park fan I couldn’t help but notice this skull hanging in the prehistoric wing of the museum. You may recognize it from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. This guy is the Stygimoloch AKA Stiggy in Jurassic Park. Sorry to bust your bubble on these guys but they can’t actually ram each other or solid brick wall. These guys would shatter their skulls if they were to do that. These guys may have used their heads to amplify noise or to show off for the ladies. These guys are still pretty cool to look at. I saw this and was instantly familiar with it. Stiggy is one of my favorite Jurassic World Dinosaurs for the chaos at the auction scene when we was running about causing panic and confusion to buy Owen Grady some time. This was one of the coolest fossils in their collection. This is the first one of these I have seen in any museum collection. 

A cool battle scene between an Allosaurus and a Stegosaurus. You might think of a Stegosaurus to have a pretty good defense due to those big thick bony plates; however this is simply not the case. The plates are actually very thin and were possibly only used for mating purposes. This made the plates more like a blood filled cookie. Still they did have their famous weapon the Thagomizer which was used as a weapon and could really do some damage. I will never forget the scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park when Sarah Harding gets attacked by the family heard after her camera messes up when she is photographing the baby causing it to sent of an alarm call. Stegosaurus is a huge dinosaur and will always be one of my favorites. Fun Fact: In the first Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton instead of using a sick triceratops like they did in the film it was actually a sick Stegosaurus that Dr. Harding was caring for when the Toyota Land Cruisers came up to that point on the tour. That was one of the biggest differences in media but the same thing was going on with both animals in both forms of media.   

A close up of a Stegosaurus Thagomizer. 

A cool Hadrosaur fossil that was also at the Denver Museum. They had a lot of cool fossils but I didn’t get a chance to photograph them all. There was just too much and so little time to see the whole museum but heck it was really cool to see some of the Jurassic Park superstars in this museum. Hardrosaurus was not in Jurassic Park but this was one of the first dinosaurs I ever learned about. These guys are also known as Duck-bills for their goofy looking mouths. Dinosaurs had some of the coolest features from weird headgear, to weird mouth shapes, to their wild arsenal of weapons. Even in the time of the dinosaurs biological warfare was very weird. 

A rather cool replica I got on the trip was this cast of a Raptor claw. I am a huge Raptor fan and adding one of these to my collection was really cool. My collection is now in a nice display cabinet with some of my Jurassic Park toys in the mix just to make it more interesting. Fossils are just one of my favorite things to collect and even though this is a fake it is still a nice edition to my educational collections and too I got it reminded me of Alan Grant’s Raptor Claw from Jurassic Park (1993) and I am a huge JP Raptor fan. I will be doing a top ten Jurassic Park Dinosaurs post soon to show you what my top 10 pics are after the trip photos. So stay tuned more animals and stuff to show you from Colorado as my Colorado trip review continues. 

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Today is Thursday and it’s almost the weekend and I’m so excited and ready for the weekend! But before then, we are going to be talking about some books-to-film where I enjoyed the films more than the book. Which I may have covered before but I love this topic, so I’m covering it again!

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

I did see the movie first, before I realized that this was based off of a book. I loved the movie, absolutely enjoyed it. It’s actually the first movie my husband, then friend, cuddled to at his apartment in college. So the movie itself does have some sentimental value, but when I compared the movie objectively as I could to the book it was based off of, I couldn’t believe they were supposed to be the same. The book just fell flat for me, and none of the characters were the beautiful, bratty, kids I loved in the movie.

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Again, this was another movie I saw before I read the book. I was about 8 or 9 when I saw the movie so there was really no way for me to know that there was a book; or if I knew there was a book, I don’t think I would have really understood it had I tried to read it at that age. I read fast at the age, but my comprehension wasn’t as high as it is now. Still a highly enjoyable book though, but I love the movie so much more.

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Okay, there is definitely a theme today. I saw the movie first, then I read the book. I read the book soon after seeing the movie though and realized how very very different the movie was verses the book. I did truly love the book, but I loved the magic of the movie better. And just the all around silliness of the movie as well. The book felt very serious at time, and to me it didn’t quite hit as well. That’s not a bad thing, but it wasn’t quite my cup of tea.

I didn’t realize that this was a theme as I was picking out books today, but I had watched all of these movies first then I read the book. It was not a bad thing, I loved the movies! The books were okay, but I loved the movies and these are ones that I would actually recommend the movie over the book.

What movies have you enjoyed more than the books? How did you come to enjoy to see the movie or read the book? Comment below and let me know!

Tiny Navajo Reads: Another Three Books-to-Film - come see what movies I've seen that I enjoyed more than the books they are based on. Today is Thursday and it's almost the weekend and I'm so excited and ready for the weekend!

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My top 3 books of 2017

I know this isn’t quite on time, and probably a little unnecessary, but I wanted to catalog my favorite books that I read in 2017, even if none of them were actually published this year, whoops. Not any real deep analysis, just my own personal thoughts and opinions, and in no particular order. Here we go!

1. Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. First of all, I really doubt anything I have to say about this book hasn’t been said before, and I’m not even going to try for anything remotely deep, just my own thoughts on it. The most I can manage to say about the plot is that it involves a religion that is established right away to be fake, a man trying to write a book, and also an apocalypse. It’s the first Vonnegut book I’ve read, and it pretty much left me speechless. What I can say is that I didn’t read it all at once, and while I wasn’t immediately drawn into the plot or anything, it was simply a book that I couldn’t stop thinking about. It wasn’t the kind of story where you have to read it all at once or you’ll die waiting to find out what happens next, at least not for me. Instead, all of the ideas in it are so very unique and real that they stay with you, and even if you put it down for a while, you’ll eventually be drawn back in by those same bits of thought. Everything about it was so interesting and memorable, and I’ll probably have to read it at least a few more times before I can really start understanding it. Overall, it was a fantastic, thoughtful, and realistic book, and I’m definitely going to have to read more Vonnegut in the future.

2. Kill he Boy Band, by Goldy Moldavsky. On a totally different note, this is a book about four girls who accidentally kidnap their least favorite member of a fictional boy band called the Ruperts, and everything turns to chaos from there. I can’t say more without spoiling it, but really, this book takes you in so many crazy and ridiculous directions, while still staying somewhat plausible. It’s a really interesting look at what being a fan is like, how quickly things can get out of hand, and overall just really fast-paced and thrilling to read, not to mention absolutely hilarious. When I picked it up in the bookstore, though it was funny enough for me to go ahead and buy it, I was really worried that it was going to do that whole “boy bands are dumb simply because they’re a thing teenage girls enjoy, and fans are just faceless, over-emotional monsters” thing, you know the one, but I ended up being really pleasantly surprised. Instead, the author demonstrates what it’s like to really, really love something, how it feels to be made fun of for it, and what it’s like when you start doubting your own enjoyment because of what other people think. Though it’s not perfect, the four main girls are certainly all well-developed individuals who are just as flawed as real people, and it’s also very interesting that the main character is never described or even named (she just uses aliases from movies), which allows for the reader to imagine her as anyone they want, or see themselves in her place. Not to mention that this is one incredibly funny book, and I was cackling loud enough while reading it for people to worry. The humor is dark and funny, even when everything’s falling apart and the situation is sometimes quite dire. I could keep talking about this book for a while, but I’ll try to wrap up here. This book will have you on the edge of your seat the whole time and make you proud for loving things with your whole heart without shame, and I really, really recommend it if you’re looking for something entertaining.

3. The Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton. This is sort of story-fied telling of the real Great Train Robbery of the 1850s, based off, I believe, the actual recorded testimonies of the men involved in the robbery. It’s not only a very interesting, suspenseful story on how they managed to pull of stealing a bunch of gold off of a really well protected train, with a detailed telling of how every piece of the plan slowly comes together, but also a look at the environment in Victrion London, from the progress that the trains represented to individual methods of committing crimes explained thoroughly to the stark differences between the wealth and the poverty of the time. Seriously, it’s a very suspenseful book, and incredibly interesting to try and guess just exactly how they’ll manage to pull it off, and if you’re like me, and love tons of little details about a time period, this book is really a ton of fun. Not to mention that it’s still fast-paced enough to very thrilling, especially if you like reading about crime. In all honesty, I would love to see this one turned into a Disney movie or the like, though I doubt the subject matter would be allowed. I’m definitely very glad I picked it up from a yard sale, and I recommend it to anyone who likes historical fiction, or just anything suspenseful at all.

So, those were my top three books that I read in 2017! I really recommend all three of them, and if you do check them out, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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An Email About Writing, and a Reply

A friend sent me an email recently asking some pertinent questions about writing.

Here is part of the email from Sharon.

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Have you ever coached a fantasy writer? How silly do you consider this genre?

I have this dream to finish my story before I die and that’s not looking as good as it used to! Years go by really fast as it turns out.

What’s a good first step for this process? Or, do you have a series of essays on how to get off your butt and just write?

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Those are good questions, and hard to answer questions. Here is my response.

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I quite like fantasy.

My writing coaching has just been on the skill rather than on projects, so I've mostly played with tiny little stories that we make up at the time.

There is no correct process for writing, and no correct writing time frames. Patrick Rothfuss worked on his first book for 14 years before it came out. Stephen King took 30 years to finish the Dark Tower series. J. K. Rowling had all seven books planned in detail before she began the first. Her planning took 5 years by itself. C. S. Lewis just did it one book at a time. George R. R. Martin has a general idea of where he's going, but no detail.

Writing only requires writing. So it's whatever works for you. I only really make progress when I'm doing articles for the blog where I'm going to publicly post them soon. I just happen to like that. If you can block out a certain time to write, do that. If you can set a goal of writing a certain number of words a day, do that. None of that works for me, my conscientiousness scores are just too low to handle it. But, writing in little bursts of inspiration has worked for many people as well.

It's whatever gets you going. If you feel like writing detailed plans and that will get you putting things on paper or screen, then do that. If there's a scene you're excited about, then write that. Gabaldon writes her books completely out of order just based on what she feels like doing at the time, and then arranges the scenes later. Robert Louis Stevenson made a list of chapters and then wrote Treasure Island chapter by chapter, and read each to his family by the fire that same night. When he wrote Jekyll and Hyde his wife awoke him in the middle of an inspiring nightmare and he wrote it in three days. When she didn't like it he burnt it and rewrote the entire thing again, all while being on doctor prescribed bedrest.

As for fantasy being silly, it is no more silly than any other genre. A western can be silly or serious. Fantasies are communicating personal and collective archetypes, patterns of interpreting and acting within the world, just as all narratives are. The Emperor Has No Clothes is an important work detailing deception, self-deception, authority, social structures, the value of innocence, fraud, and more. The Chronicles of Narnia is a Protestant religious work, and The Lord of the Rings a Catholic one. Harry Potter has an almost unlimited number of important subjects, not the least of which is the exploration of the good and evil that divides us all within ourselves, how the evil within being incorporated into us protects us from the evil without, and how by dying unto self we may be reborn. So, fantasy is not so silly. It allows us to have fun while confronting subjects of the utmost importance, and maintaining enough distance to allow us a less reactive perspective on emotionally engaging topics.

Finally, writing does require a leap of faith. That's why it's an adventure in itself.

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Letter writing is a lost art. But I like it. I'm reading the letters exchanged between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson right now, along with the letters between John Adams and Abigail Adams. They offer some of the best insights into history, and into people, that I know of. And, fictional letter writing as in Johan Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and Ovid's "Heroides" give you a different feel than that of other literary works. (Technically that's its own field of study called epistolary writing.)

Emails are not letters. But sometimes they start to feel like that, and it feels good. Here is a slightly edited reply from Sharon.

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Wow Jeff this is such a great email, you should post this to your blog as is!  It’s very motivating just reading about how other authors work. I usually imagine them as tirelessly holed up in book laden studies writing away for endless days.

I know it took Tolkien about 20 years to finish LOTR etc. and I often think maybe that is why it is so good.

The thing that has gotten me writing finally is that I just tell myself no one will ever see this...

Constructive criticism I take VERY well but someone saying “wow this is just a piece of garbage” I’d have a hard time with.

And everyone knows that “no filter” is sort of the new norm.

Thanks social media.

I guess I will just jump in and do whatever and see where it goes.

How are you enjoying isolation?

Feels pretty normal to me, I kind of live in a pumpkin anyway!

Have you written a book yet? Or mostly essays?

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She has a lot of good points in this email. I've had the same concerns.

I wrote an article about other writer's writing processes a couple of years ago called "The Write Process", and it did help give me a well-rounded perspective on the reality of writing. There are many interesting ones that could be added to the list, like Michael Crichton writing scenes on 3x5 cards until he had a shoebox full, but just knowing that a dozen famous writers all disagree on almost every aspect of writing is quite helpful mentally and emotionally. Here's that article: http://www.jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2018/01/the-write-process.html

Then there's the whole can of worms on being on both ends of creating and criticizing. One important realization is that critics and creators aren't writing to each other or for each other, they are writing for a public, otherwise it would be in private correspondence. I wrote about that idea more in "Critics and Creators": http://www.jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2019/02/critics-and-creators.html

My last response reflects some of those ideas.

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Lol. I was thinking the same thing about making that an article.

I agree that it's very motivating to see how other authors do it, and to realize that they all completely disagree. For instance, Shonda Rhimes is a prolific television writer known for Grey's Anatomy. She says that if you write every day you're a writer, if you don't you're not. Her favorite writer is Aaron Sorkin. He wrote The West Wing and various movies. He says that 90 percent of a writer's time is not writing. When he's writing a movie he usually thinks about it for about 18 months and then writes it in 6. So, by her definition Shonda Rhimes' favorite writer isn't a writer.

If keeping your writing close to the chest works for you, do that. Social media is crazy. I've even gotten some death threats for my political article on Antifa. I've had a number of insults for my writings on grief, where I'm developing an original theory. But, I've also had a lot of good compliments and people sharing my work. I'm certain that by this time my article on suicide has saved a few lives because of the circles that it's been shared in.

Isolation isn't too big of a deal for me. I teach English online and spend most of the rest of my time reading, writing, watching, and meditating.

I've written over 300 articles. Which would come to over 2,000 pages in a book, but no book yet. I'll probably make some article collections this year.

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In addition to the over 300 articles I also have notes for more than 200 additional articles. I'll never run out of things to write, I'm guessing that the more I write the more I'll fall behind in comparison to the ideas that I have yet to write. I've been urged to write books about my adventure traveling out west mountain climbing, and my couple month road trip, and my near-death misadventure in Africa. Those would all be interesting, but I lived them, so it's not that adventurous for me to write about them. I do have some major works that I want to tackle in this lifetime though.

Out of all of the projects that I have started and have in mind there are two that would compromise major life works. One is a philosophical work creating a new structure connecting epistemology, ethics and morality, and political economics in a better way. The other is a literary work to compliment "Prometheus Bound" by Aeschylus. I do not know if I can accomplish either of those in this lifetime, they both still feel a little out of my reach in terms of mental insight and writing skill. But, there are other projects that have been growing which are unique and could contribute quite a lot to society, such as my original theory of grief, a new literary analysis method, work showing the emergent nature of morality in art, the historical pattern of abolition, my unique experiences and insights into meditation, and some of my current work in applied politics. So, my work has just begun.

Whenever we set out on a new venture doubts and concerns spring to the fore. Those are the things that make us stronger in overcoming them. And throughout history, letters have contributed to the overcoming of many such obstacles. Just maybe, it's helped in this case too.

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To read more from Jeff go to JeffThinks.com or JeffreyAlexanderMartin.com

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Dinosaurs and a lost world. A very engaging bit of fiction. it held my interest right to the end. the story is based on the idea tha in a very remote part of the Amazon there was a very highly elevated jungle that was almost impossible to get to. in London one scientist claimed to have achieved the apparently impossible feat of getting there and discovering dinosaurs, petrodactls, etc., but when he left with photos a rver accident destroyed them. his fellow scientists called him a fake. the guts of the book relates both he and one of hi accusers, along with a news reporter and a known spotsman with rifles and ammo, returning[ and then all hell breaks loose. Go to Amazon

An Exciting Sequel The dinosaurs on Site B can't be contained forever in Michael Crichton's The Lost World. Although I've read this book at least two times before, I must admit the movie version had warped my memories of the book, so there were many scenes I felt like I was reading them anew. Crichton expands upon the dinosaurs and their presumed behaviors. I loved that Ian Malcolm was back, although for me, Sarah Harding quickly took over. She's intelligent and fearless, and I doubt anyone would have made it out alive if she hadn't decided to come on this adventure to Isla Sorna. Although not quite as fantastic as Jurassic Park, The Lost World by Michael Crichton is an exciting read. Go to Amazon

Awesome! I loved Jurassic Park and this made a great sequel! Lots of new tidbits that weren't in the movies! I love the mystery, the lore..Malcolm's Chaos theory and the way he thinks of things..plus he is always having accidents! I think it does prove that.. the better person you are..the better chances of your survival especially intelligence, attention to detail and survival skills!! Wish Mr. Crichton..would have written more to the series!! Loved it! So instead of zombies I'm crushing on dinosaurs! Go to Amazon

Crichton clones his first book There are some interesting thoughts in this second book and one or two new characters including a stronger female but mostly it is just a retelling of book one. Even the new characters are refinements of old ones. You still have two engineers, a mathematician, a paleontologist, a life scientist, two greedy people and two kids. You still have the same dinos and dino villains. The only new thoughts are on theory and even those are just extensions of ideas in the first book. If that does not bother you, read away, there are some moments of interest. Go to Amazon

Better than the movie! Like the Jurassic Park novel, The Lost World is so much better than the film adaptation Spielberg did. Not only are there more characters, the characters are much more diverse than what you see in the film. You also see the involvement of a dinosaur we've never seen in the movies. It's a shame they were left out. Go to Amazon

Jurrasic Park - Lost World I originally bought this book thinking I could listen to it through text to speech. this function was inactive due to the publisher. I subsequently had to buy the audio as I did not want to return the novel! I don't like this method and I think Amazon should move this notice and make it evident that the text to speech is not activated! Go to Amazon

Great sequel to Jurassic Park! I thought this novel was a great follow-up to Jurassic Park; forget the second Jurassic Park movie - it was nothing like the book. I don't read these novels for great character development, I read them for the action and suspense, and they definitely deliver. In some ways, I enjoyed this more than the original, though honestly it's hard to create a lot of surprises since the reader KNOWS to expect lots of dinosaurs, mayhem and death, but that doesn't make it less fun. If you read Jurassic Park, read this, too! Go to Amazon

It's no Jurassic Park, but there's a lot more ... It's no Jurassic Park, but there's a lot more exploration and focus on the animals. Don't expect the movie. The movie delved into more of a remake of the old Lost World film, while the book spends the entire time on the island discovering a lot of exciting new things about the dinosaurs they're surrounded by. Go to Amazon

Five Stars Much much better than the movie It has done exactly what I got it for. Is still a good book. what a stupid error. Awesome Brilliant product. Five Stars Four Stars love Conan Doyle