Jurassic Park Series

[OmegaZilla]

The Lost World novel's characteristic that sets its pacing apart from its predecessor is that Malcolm spends much more time in monologues or long dialogues. I think one of them covers up an entire page or two. Perhaps that's what makes people bored when reading it. I wasn't, to be honest.

[Kol]

I wasn't, to be honest.

i wasn't bored either. 

and yeah, it's not about being "entertained" in every second.

[Shasvre]

I think the discussions in The Lost World were very interesting, especially since they were building up to that big reveal at the end (on how this "Lost World" was flawed).

Also, that bike chase with the Raptor would have been awesome to see on screen.

[Remonster]

I love the novel and the film. The novel is a slow burn. I think it does an amazing job of building up tension over the first two thirds of the book, then everything comes crashing down and the last third of the book is nonstop action and death. Freakin love it.

[OmegaZilla]

Also, that bike chase with the Raptor would have been awesome to see on screen.

Thorne and Levine on a Motorcycle chased by a Tyrannosaurus.
That is all.

[Ratchetcomand]

Too bad that there was a never a JP3 novel. I wonder what Crichton version of JP3 would have been like?

[stephen]

Actually The Lost World is the only sequel Crichton has written.  I remember seeing a quote from him regarding it and the feeling I got was that he didn't really overly enjoy the experience.

[evolution_rex]

The problem I have with The Lost World novel is that it's message is the opposite of the first novel. Jurassic Park: "Life finds a way." The Lost World: "These dinosaurs are all doomed to go extinct again."

[DoomRulz]

TLW was about life finding a way. Hammond explicitly says so at the end. I thought that made it obvious.

[Remonster]

TLW was about life finding a way. Hammond explicitly says so at the end. I thought that made it obvious.

The Novel. Not the film.

[OmegaZilla]

I think life will find a way in the novel too, btw.

[KNIGHT]

It wasn't so much "The dinosaurs were all doomed" as it was "It wasn't a perfect lost world"

The environment of not only the creation of the dinosaurs, the size of the island, and what they had been fed all forced them to adapt. They weren't likely acting like real dinosaurs did, thus it wasn't a "lost world".

[mastermoon]

Both Jurassic Park 3 and the most recent Jurassic Park 4 never began as novels.

Now the movie "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" is very loosly based on the novel.

[DoomRulz]

It wasn't so much "The dinosaurs were all doomed" as it was "It wasn't a perfect lost world"

The environment of not only the creation of the dinosaurs, the size of the island, and what they had been fed all forced them to adapt. They weren't likely acting like real dinosaurs did, thus it wasn't a "lost world".

Yeah, I didn't think raptors could climb a metal cage a la Aliens.

[Shasvre]

I'm just gonna leave this here so I can get a second opinion from people who've read the book.

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