The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2) by Michael Crichton

 The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2) by Michael Crichton-400 pages

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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.

There are rumors that something has survived....

Thoughts: I read Jurassic Park a few years ago and I've seen all of the Jurassic movies, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The movie is very different from this book, though. The first one was somewhat different, but this one is very different. Some of the characters have the same name and are similar such as Ian Malcolm, Sarah Harding, Kelly, and Eddie Carr. However, in the book Kelly is a friend of Richard Levine and Dr. Thorne (2 characters not in the movie), but in the movie she's Malcolm's daughter. In the movie, Sarah Harding is already on Isla Sorna, but in the book she decides to travel to the island later after an invitation from Ian Malcolm. Another similarity is that there's a scene where Eddie takes an infant Tyrannosaur that's leg is broken. Eddie and Sara try to make a cast for it in both the book and movie. In both, chaos ensues as the Tyrannosaur parents come for the infant. The scenes aren't exactly the same, but they're similar. In both the book and movie, Ian Malcolm travels to Isla Sorna to rescue someone. In the movie, it's Sarah Harding. In the book, it's Richard Levine. That's about where the similarities end. One scene from the movie that's iconic (and not included in the book) is the Tyrannosaur getting loose in San Diego. This scene is not in the book, but it's such an iconic scene. It seems like they took inspiration from different parts of this book for scenes from other movies in the Jurassic series, though. Overall, I like both the book and the movie, even though their vastly different.