The Lost World – Michael Crichton Free Audiobook

Written by Michael Crichton
Read by Scott Brick
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Jurassic Park Series, Book 2
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: August 29, 2006
Duration: 15:20:33

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. . . .

A critic’s review – One fact about this sequel to Jurassic Park stands out above all: it follows a book that, with spinoffs, including the movie, proved to be the most profitable literary venture ever. Chrichton can still conjure unparalleled dino terror, although the wonder is gone and the attacks are predictable, the pacing perfunctory. But his heart now seems to be not so much in the storytelling as in pedagogy: from start to finish, the novel aims to illustrate Crichton’s ideas about extinction–basically, that it occurs because of behavioral rather than environmental changes–and reads like a scientific fable, with pages of theory balancing the hectic action. As science writing, it’s a lucid, provocative undertaking; but as an adventure and original entertainment, even though it sold through the roof, it seems that Crichton has laid a big dinosaur egg.