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Michael Crichton, el gran maestro de la aventura inteligente y verosimil, retoma en esta continuacion de Parque Jurasico los aspectos mas inquietantes de la trama original y logra una narracion tan emocionante como solo su talento podia conseguir. La pesadilla empieza en la isla de Costa Rica, donde se encuentran varios cadaveres de dinosaurios. El paleontologo Richard Levine organiza una expedicion y, gracias a sus peculiares ayudantes -dos ninos superdotados-, consigue que Ian Malcolm, uno de los pocos hombres que conoce lo que realmente ocurrio en aquella isla remota, colabore en la arriesgada empresa. Como es sabido, esta isla fue el verdadero ""laboratorio"" del parque, donde los dinosaurios eran ""fabricados"" y criados sin ningun criterio cientifico para los responsables de una empresa cegada por los intereses economicos. Ahora, las consecuencias de tales manipulaciones son pavorosas: los dinosaurios se han vuelto violentos e impredecibles y amenazan con extender su salvaje hegemonia a todo el planeta. ... Read more

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I enjoyed the book immensely
The Lost World entertained, as well as, kept the attention of the reader. The characters came across as full of life and passionate emotions. The plot was mesmerizing as well as scientifically accurate. The book requireda great deal of concintration to read. This has got to be one of the bestbooks I have ever read! ... Read more

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The Caribbean, 1665. Port Royal, Jamaica is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. For Captain Charles Hunter, there’s a living to be made, and gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking.

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Combining themes from Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain, New York Times best-selling author Michael Crichton weaves a superbly suspenseful bio-thriller. Snapped up by a major motion picture studio, and heralded with a 1.25 million first hardcover printing, this fast-paced novel mixes primitive vivid creatures and startling future developments. ... Read more

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My first
As some people know, Cracker Barrel Restaurant that is all along American hiways have audio books to loan.A refundable down payment minus $4.00 rental fee and you have an audio book for the length of your trip that you turn in at the end, or exchange for another along your trip.I have never listened to one. "Prey" is my first.It was so interesting and kept me awkake, entertained, and engrossed, that I would tell my husband not to stop for even bathroom breaks!I didn't want to stop, I wanted to keep on listening!He even enjoyed it.

I have ordered "One Second Later" audio for the Spring break trip.I read the book and found it totally awesome and for me life changing.My husband doesn't like to read.So, I am hoping he'll find it as good as I did.

Another great book by Crichton
A fantastic book that is easily listened to in its audio form. A review for this said that he spent too much time on the scientific details, but if you read Crichton, you know he gives the reader background on the science described in his writing. It doesn't bog down the story in any way, but rather gives the story plausibility.
This book is akin to Andromeda Strain and is great for a trip in a car, plane, etc.

Amazing Audiobook
I started listening to this audiobook on a six hour car trip. I found myself so engrossed in the story that I was actually looking forward to the return trip! When I came home, I was thinking up errands that I needed to run so I could listen to it in the car. I have never gotten so engrossed in an audiobook before.

The story was suspenseful and exciting. It has inspired me to get more audiobooks of Michael Crichton's works. The only downside was the scientific portions of the book slowed the story down. The author would stop to inform about nanotechnology or things related to it and a lot of it was unnecessary for the story and caused it to drag a bit. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook! ... Read more

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Tim and Lex take an action-packed tour of Jurassic Park, an amusement park that features real-live dinosaurs living in specially designed habitats.Movie tie-in. ... Read more

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Eccentric billionaire John Hammond is about to realize his greatest dream - the opening of the ultimate theme park, Jurassic Park. But a series of bizarre, unexplained fatalities prompts questions about the safety of the island and reveals the truth about Jurassic Park. ... Read more

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The Dinosaurs of The Lost World: Jurassic Park is an easy-to-read book which explores fascinating dinosaur facts, for example; whatever became of real-life dinosaurs; how did they live, breed and care for their young. Illustrated with fullcolour photographs from the film. Something has survived...In 1993, an ambitious entrepreneur named John Hammond spoke four words which ushered in a new era of motion picture excitement and set worldwide boxoffice records..."Welcome to Jurassic Park". Now, a few years later, Hammond makes a startling confession to scientist Ian Malcolm: another island of dinosaurs exists...an island where dinosaurs have been living and breeding in the wild...the Lost World. ... Read more

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Educational, thought provoking, and entertaining, yet slightly disappointing
Both entertaining and thought provoking, Next is a novel that will keep you enthralled all the way to its disappointing end. It's not that the ending is necessarily bad, but that it's hurriedly resolved not unlike a TV episode. You'd expect a Crichton page turner like this to have a more involved ending, though maybe that's just me.

Even if you're not turned on by biotechnology, you will be intrigued by the story's interweaving of fact and fiction. It is an extremely current piece of work that will put you smack in the center of the current debate of gene therapy, patents, transgenics, and tissue ownership. You will find yourself smack in the center of it, and will learn quite a bit from this extremely well researched novel (as are all Crichton's books). This is definitely an entertaining and educational read, though simply not Crichton's best in my opinion.

Crichton fans may in fact find themselves confused about whether they really love it or not, but will find that it's still worthy of their time.

Better than any previous Crichton novel
I will keep this short. This is the best Crichton novel to date because the author took risks and dared to be politically incorrect. He was not afraid to shock his readers with transgenic creations, dispel myths about blondes, etc. In this day and age where everyone is extremely careful not to offend anyone, it was refreshing to see an established author publishing a daring work of this kind.

informative, not entertaining
I got this gift as a book, and I read it without checking the opinions first.I'm not sure I've read a book through that I found less entertaining.If I hadn't read it in just 3 sittings, I would never have kept all the subplots straight.The subject matter was very interesting, which is why I did finish it, but I've been known to read textbooks as well.This is not recommended unless you are diehard Chrichton fan.

Not the best work by far - too preachy
I have read and loved almost every Crichton work, however lately the books I have seen have evolved into less fiction, more lecture.I do believe that Crichton is combining too much of his lecture material into the books, making his characters seem out of place with their uncanny knowledge of subjects.It almost has the feel of an educational commercial, where the action is stopped in order to provide a quick lesson.Overall the book has plots that go nowhere, characters that do not tie together, and an ending that seems as if the author just got tired of writing.Hopefully Crichton can get back to creating good fiction, and worry less about providing us a moral.Create the story, and allow us find the message.Here's to waiting for the next great novel.Still a fan.

Disappointing, but worth reading for Crichton fans
Those of us who enjoy Crichton's other works will find this book interesting, but don't expect his usual fascinating page-turner. There is no clear plot running through the book and no clearly defined main characters. In fact, I often had to backtrack to previous chapters to remind me which character was which.This is sort of a hodgepodge of loosely related stories bound together by the shared topic of gene research, animal transgenics, patents, and greed. The stories merge together at the end of the book in a set of ridiculous and implausible coincidences surpassed in their improbability only by the fighter jet plane crash in Fred Forsythe's book, The Afghan. ... Read more

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A fantasy card game which is set in the world of Steven Spielberg's sequel to "Jurassic Park". The book includes two pages of punch-out game cards and is illustrated with stills from the film. ... Read more

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Jon
It'sreally good.I loved it from the start.I think that everyone shoud buy this book.

Jon
It'sreally good.I loved it from the start.I think that everyone shoud buy this book.

Jon
It'sreally good.I loved it from the start.I think that everyone shoud buy this book. ... Read more