I almost feel like I should read it again. I don’t have the knowledge to comment on it. The Lost World is the sequel to Jurassic Park, and it is about as good as most sequels.
The interesting part of the book takes place on Isla Sorna, ‘Site B’ as it was called by the InGen folks. Ian Malcolm is back with a mostly new cast of incredible characters. The genius kids who sneak along, the incredible engineer who makes dinosaur proof equipment, and the other ‘perfect’ characters make it a very readable book. You don’t spend much time thinking about how stupid the characters are, like you do in many book/movies.
Once again, it is a battle to get off the island alive, except this time, there are no fences, and there are people interested in not disturbing the dinosaur environment. Impossible, right? Right. But once again, there is a lot of good theory. And, it is so different and so much better than the movie, that comparison is pretty much impossible. Crichton could have been a philosopher…though he probably wouldn’t have made as much money. While this is a book worth reading, unlike Jurassic Park, increased vocabulary and maturity didn’t make it any better.

“They showed dinosaurs.
He squinted. It wasn’t possible. These were movies or something he was seeing. Because in one corner he saw a herd of triceratops. In an adjacent square, some green lizard-looking things, in high grass, with just their heads sticking up. In another, a single stegosaurus, ambling along.
They must be movies, he though. The dinosaur channel.
And in another image, he saw Thorne and Malcolm and Eddie get quickly into the green Explorer, and drive around the back of the laboratory. And he realized with a shock:
The pictures were all real.“