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The Lost World - Michael Crichton |
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27/03/01 (190 review reads) |
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Advantages: An incredibly clever sequel.
Disadvantages: The film has done irreversible damage to the credit of the novel.
PLEASE REMEBER: DO NOT MISTAKE THIS BOOK FOR THE FILM!
The film, admittedly is terrible. It was a much eagerly anticipated sequel to the film, "Jurassic Park", but the storyline was poor, the action concepts were pathetic, and the ending, well, what was Spielberg thinking? It disappointed everyone, including myself, especially so, as I had already read the book "The Lost World" in anticipation of the film. Quite frankly I wish I had not seen the film as it is a disgrace to Michael Crichton's renowned name in writing and no doubt put an awful lot of people off of reading the book and the excellent ideas behind the original "Jurassic Park".
It is such a shame that the book has been over-shadowed by the poor quality of the movie. The book "The Lost World", in a similar way to my review of "Jurassic Park" as a novel, is completely different to the film.
The storyline continues from the wreckage at the end of the book "Jurassic Park", and follows in strict accordance to create an amazing sequel to an amazing first novel. Once again, the main ideas are somwhat followed but there is so much to the book that has not been incorporated in the film.
If the film was to the book, it would have been incredible, but they had already altered the screen version of "Jurassic Park", so the screen version of "The Lost World" had to follow the big mistake they made with the original film.
The ridiculous ending with the Tyrannosaurus Rex running loose around the streets of mainland North America, after coming across from the island on a boat, is stupid to say the least. Nothing even remotley like this happens in the book. So much more is different and better, I cannot start to give examples, as there is so much in favour of the novel that it defies imagination. The whole story around the gamehunters on the island is different and better. One of the main chara
cters in the film is not even supposed to be there in the book!
There are so many examples of how the novel is a hundred times more worthy of your time than the film, I could not even begin catalogue them, so it is up to you as readers to choose to give this book a try.
"The Lost World" is a magnificent follow up to "Jurassic Park", but unfortunately, I think that the film version may have put people off of the idea completely.
All I can say is do not take the film into consideration when reading this book, and you will then see that it is so much more intelligent, exciting, and interesting than the film it really does shock you. Why Universal Studios decided to make the film the way they did, is beyond me, but the book will speak for itself if people can bring themselves try it after the failure of the film. I'm afraid that the damage may have been done, but hopefully this review will go a little way to rectifying the pessimism and doubt.
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