It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.

But there are rumors that something has survived.

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Michael Crichton
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December 17, 2007
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Listening Length	15 hours and 18 minutes
Author	Michael Crichton
Narrator	Scott Brick
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Audible.com Release Date	December 17, 2007
Publisher	Random House Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0011FSS66
Best Sellers Rank	#1,444 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #145 in Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #159 in Suspense (Audible Books & Originals) #227 in Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals)

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Christian Reader

Don’t waste your time. Watch the movie instead.

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2020

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Actually, I liked the movie better. This is unusual. I usually prefer the book to the movie. However, in this case, it is the opposite. This book has too much “preaching” about evolution. And, as a Christian who believes the Bible is God’s Holy Word, I found it sad that the author actually thinks everything happened by chance. I enjoyed the action scenes. If he had left off the constant droning on and on about theories about where we came from it would have been a great action filled book. As it was, if you skip 80% of the book and just read the action story you can enjoy it. Sorry.

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Sci-Fi Animal-Horror Reveals Truths about Humanity?

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2019

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After reading the second Jurassic Park book, it really hit me how Crichton, at least in this series (since I haven't read anything else from him yet), has a wonderful way of making the stories about more than just the individual events happening. There's an overarching theme to the story about how humanity relates to nature and how humanity is part of nature. It sounds trite, but it's hard to describe the way the book handles it. All I can say is that I came out of reading both of the Jurassic books feeling oddly better and less fatalistic about humanity's ultimate impact on the Earth.

His characters are sometimes likable, sometimes not, sometimes survive, sometimes don't, but they're almost always complex in a way you might not expect them to be. It's rarer than people might think to find complex characters in any genre. The people and situations are real and sympathetic enough that I end up feeling equally bad when likable characters and even the most unlikable characters are killed.

I also appreciate how Crichton doesn't really demonize the animals. They may be the primary danger in the books, but they're not evil. They're animals, but there's always a bit of a sense of curiosity and wonder mixed in with the fear. Maybe not as much as the Jurassic Park movie, but it's there. I guess you could say the animals are complex characters, just like the humans are.

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E. Pfeifer

Not like the movie! Better!

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2018

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Was expecting some relation between this book and the movie, but I was wrong. The book could be concidered a completely different situation and story from the movie. Sure some characters are the same and equipment might be the same but everything else is different in a good way. The book makes it seem if you've watched the movie you'll know what to expect in the book. Not here! The author keeps it interesting till the end. Glad I read the book after seeing the movie or I would not have liked the movie. I only knocked one star off because of the over explaining of certain things that don't contribute to much.

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Sarah T

Dinosaurs, prions, and thieving geneticists

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2020

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I first read this book around 1996. I reread this in 2020, and my memory of the book had long been overridden by the Lost World movie, which has a little in common with this book. I also read Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World (from 1912) right before rereading this book, and Lost World Jurassic Park is thankfully much less racist than that one.

This sequel to Jurassic Park was not as exciting or as fun as the original Jurassic Park, but it was still good. The plot focuses on several scientists/teachers/professors: Thorne, a wealthy retired professor who now builds highly complex RVs, Richard Levine, a paleontologist, Sarah Harding, a carnivorous animal behavior specialist of some sort, and Ian Malcolm, who we all thought was killed off in the original Jurassic Park (or at least that is what JP book says), but has somehow recovered and is now back to being a mathematics professor. The book also has two children tag along, perhaps as an effort to convince parents that the future movie version of Lost World was family friendly and meant for kids, Arby and Kelly. Past me might have said the kids are annoying and shouldn’t be included, but I actually found that the kids were fine and once again ended up being the much needed computer experts. I especially liked Arby, who has a complicated childhood as an only child with professional yet mostly absentee parents. (Your mileage may vary – the movie version of kids I think was rolled into one child who may or may not have been a little annoying. The kids in the book were fine with me.)

The plot focuses on Thorne, Malcolm, and Eddie Carr, an engineer, (and the kids, hiding in the RV) traveling to Isla Sorna (Site B) to rescue Dr. Levine. Sarah Harding shows up a few hours later, to join in the rescue attempt, by hitching a ride with geneticist Lewis Dodgson (the guy who was trying to steal the Dino embryos in the first Jurassic Park book). Dodgson, along with two other colleagues, is still trying to get his own dinos by stealing eggs.

Site B was the breeding laboratory for dinosaurs that were then transferred to Jurassic Park, and like most things involving genetics, there was a lot of trial and error before getting things right. This site was abandoned after the whole InGen was shut down after the every of Jurassic Park, and many dinosaurs got out and are now living and breeding on the island (this is background, not part of the actual book plot, although I would read that book).

The plot mostly focuses on a.) finding Dr. Levine, b.) studying the behavior of dinosaurs in the “wild”, c.) understanding what is causing the dinos to act more erratic than usual , d.) surviving, and e.) not being killed off by “the bad guys”. The bad guys were never really a threat to anyone except Sarah Harding on the boat, and unlike the movie, there wasn’t a whole troop of guys with guns trying to kill the dinosaurs, mostly just Dodgson, who was trying to steal eggs.

Since I’ve just read A.C. Doyle’s Lost World, I would like to mention that Crichton’s Lost World has many more dinosaurs, fewer highly problematic “ape-men” (none), and was a whole lot less racist. I thought Isla Sorna having sheer cliffs making an entrance or exit to the island hazardous was similar to Doyle’s Lost World plateau, but there were not that many similarities between the two. The only small criticism for this book is that the ending seemed anti-climatic to me. There are no big discoveries (other than prion disease, which I had no idea what I prion was when I was 15-16 years old reading this book, but I do now), no big resolutions. This book did not seem that suspenseful, and I was never that worried for most of the protagonists, but that might be because I’ve already read this book and seen the movie.

All the familiar dinosaurs from Jurassic Park are back – T-rexes, hadrosaurs, velociraptors, triceratops, as well as a pair of camouflaging predators that can match their backgrounds like chameleons or octopi. Is this a feature of the Indominous Rex in Jurassic World? I’m not sure.

Lost World Jurassic Park was fun, escapism fiction for me, and I’m glad I reread it. I struggle with some of Crichton’s later works, when scientists somehow are always the “bad guys”, climate-change denial runs rampant (State of Fear), evil scientists are working on human-chimp hybrids (Next), and I don’t even remember what scientists did wrong in Micro, only that almost all of them were killed off in horrific ways. Those books turned me off to Crichton’s work in general. But, after rereading this one, I think I might continue my reread of Michael Crichton. The two Jurassic Park novels may well be the first science fiction books I ever read, and I have a special place in my heart for these two books.

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A worthy sequel

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2020

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Awesome book. It's not often you find sequels that match the originals, and this novel achieves that. Ian Malcolm leads a team to the island of Isla Sorna - Ingen's "Site B" - to rescue a colleague. At the same time Ingen's rival company Biosyn sends their own team led by the nefarious Lewis Dodgson to retrieve fertilized dinosaur eggs from the numerous nesting grounds around the island in an attempt to boost their own research.

The story is fast paced with plenty of action scenes and some great characters. The fact that Richard Levine, Doc Thorne, and Arby didn't make it in to the movie adaptation is a crime. Dodgson is a suitably despicable villain and besides the usual raptors there's another species of dinosaur which feels even more threatening, despite the fact that they have a very limited presence.

As with the original there's a lot of scientific theory interlaced within the fast moving story, but it was done in such a way as it didn't hold things up much. Thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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Jordash386

... book I found the book to be so much better than the movie adaptation which really isn't even similar

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2018

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Having watched the movie and not read the book I found the book to be so much better than the movie adaptation which really isn't even similar. Crichton's books are so fun, but make you feel like you are reading something education that will make you smarter. Malcolm is a much more satisfying character in the books.

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Meh..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2018

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I thought after reading Jurassic Park that I would like this just as much. I was mistaken. I think the problem with this book is that Jurassic Park had a point, which was that when science becomes a business it can have very deadly results that never served any purpose other than to satisfy the greed for money of the investors and the lust for fame, recognition and power of scientists and everyone else involved.
I don't see what the point of this story was in comparison and that lead to disappointment. It's basically just more consequences of the actions of conceited people and a dead character even reappeared.
It's actually quite funny that this book was obviously only written to capitalise on the popularity of the first meaning that it's subject matter is somewhat hypocritical.

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ShropshireBookWorm

Crichton Delivers Again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2020

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When this book was first published many readers were critical, claiming that Crichton was cashing in on the success of the original Jurassic Park. And whilst there are many elements of the original novel in this sequel, it still works perfectly and keeps the magic of genetically manufactured dinosaurs alive!

The story is relatively straightforward, with genetesists looking for "Site B"; the development site of the dinosaurs from the original novel with two sets of protaganists racing each other for the prize. With only one original character returning from the original, it doesn't simply continue on the saga and introduces new ideas and opinions. Each character has their own strengths and weaknesses but I feel that their development wasn't as strong as those form the original. That said, they work for this story (which isn't too long) and with a short timeframe in which to complete their mission, the drama unfolds very quickly and probably doesn't allow for greater depth of character development.

OK, there is a great deal of predictability and some very far-fetched ideas, but this is science fiction and can only be approached with an open mind. Having re-read this (many years after originally reading it upon it's release), I have come to appreciate it a lot more than maybe I did first time around and I would encourage doubters to give it a go.

A fun read, that won't take too much time, and in typical style Crichton delivers a great tale based on great, fast-paced drama surrounding cutting edge technology of the time .

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Alyssia Cooke

Not as good as the original

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2020

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Whilst I did enjoy this, I wasn't as enthralled with this second installment as I was with the first. It was very slow going to begin with and seemed to take far too long setting the scene before throwing you into the dinosaurs. When the action starts however, this novel really does take off with a bang and you are flung around for one hell of a ride. I did find it somewhat more predictable than the initial novel though, with the who lives and who dies being less of a surprise or shock and more, yep, saw that coming. Jurassic Park really put you through a roller coaster, not knowing which characters would come out the other side vaguely in one piece... this didn't quite manage that and so didn't keep me hooked to the edge of my seat in the same way.

One of the reasons I loved the initial book was because of the focus on the scientific and moralising aspects, often using both together. This had some of the science, although less of it and somehow less interesting, and almost none of the moralising. It is very clear from the beginning who the bad guys are and there are no murky shades of grey where you feel sympathy for a character who is perhaps doing something the wrong way or for the wrong reasons. Other characters aren't really fleshed out, in fact Malcolm is the key player and that's only because all of his characterisation was laid out in Jurassic Park. This doesn't add to it or even enhance it and little effort is made with the other characters either.

So all in all, I found this to be a thinner and weaker novel than Jurassic Park, but it was still a good read and is a fast paced science fiction thriller that should keep you on your toes if you want a relatively easy read. I would certainly recommend starting with Jurassic Park however; it isn't completely necessary, but there is some important background and it gives at least one of your characters a fully fleshed out character as well.

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Bazza

2nd time around, just as gripping.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2019

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I read this book not long after it was released and found it gripping. I recently loaded it onto the kindle and once I started to read it I could not stop its that good. I know we’ve all seen the movies but the book is a far better story with all the main protagonists plus a few extra. You must give it a go. RIP Micheal you’ve been taken far to soon.

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Ricki

Another Dinosaur Hit

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2018

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An absolutely terrific book by Michael Crichton. The book is a lot different to the movie version and offers a fast paced dinosaur adventure. Well worth a read for any Jurassic Park/World fan.

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