The Lost World
By: Michael Crichton
Reflection
This book was just awesome. It was full of adventure, mess-ups, genetic fiction, and best of all dinosaurs. One of the things that I love most about this book is the fact that Micheal Crichton makes it seem genetically possible to re create dinosaurs. This book is also awesome because of the fact that it is full of animal behaviors, and explanations for these behaviors. Yet the best thing of all about this book is it's adventure that it seems to be so full of. This is most definitely a book that I would recommend to my peers. Especially if they want a book to read that is good enough to stay all night up for. Some thing that was definitely unique about the book was it's setting. The beginning of the book begins at a university in the united states of America. Then the story takes you to the forests of Costa Rica, and lastly to an island setting for the remainder of the story. This island is called “ Isla Nublar” located off the coast of Costa Rica, in a chain of islands called, “ Los Cinco Muertos” which is Spanish for the five deaths. Something else that worth mentioning is the fact that thru out the story many of the characters change. They change in their view point of each other, and and their view point on life. One example of such a change is the Main character Ian Malcolm. He began the story with little more than a skeptical eye for dinosaurs, and that they had been re-created. Yet b y the end of this story he had full belief in the dinosaur's re-creation, and had an enhanced appreciation for life itself. The next example of a character that had changed thru out the story is the character Sarah Harding. He was previously a field scientist that documented the behaviors of a large range of carnivores, and believed that all carnivores of any time period followed the general same traits of behavior. Yet by the end of this novel she has learned that hunters of times past are nothing like the hunters of modern day, they are more rage full, and chaotic. Not only that but she too learned a new respect for life, and all that it inhabits. In conclusion this book is not just only a good read but one of the best reads that you , or anyone can lay their hands, and eyes upon.