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The Lost World by Michael Crichton

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The Lost World Quotes
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The Lost World (1995) by Michael Crichton Quotes "What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species...


Author Biography

Name: John Michael Crichton
Variant Name: Michael Crichton, Michael Douglas, Jeffrey Hudson, John Lange
Birth Date: October 23, 1942
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, screenwriter

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Biography of (John) Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton has been called a "megastar" who has made a resounding impression on the literary world. Critics applaud him as a writer who is entertaining to read and who can "elaborate a gripping high concept into a crackerjack tale" (Publishers Week...
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Biography of John Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton (born 1942) is best known as a novelist of popular fiction whose stories explore the confrontation between traditional social and moral values and the demands of the new technological age. His most successful novel, Jurassic Park (1990),...
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Biography of Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton has had a number of successful careers--physician, teacher, film director, screenwriter--but he is perhaps best known for pioneering the "techno-thriller" with novels such as The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, and Jurassic Park. Whether writi...


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The Lost World Information
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The Lost World is a techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, published in 1995 by Ballantine Books. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) was issued in New York in 1996. It is a sequel to his earlier novel Jurassic Park. Like Arthur Conan Doyle's...


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Review by Mim Udovitch
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In the following excerpt, Udovitch favorably assesses The Lost World as a thriller but ridicules Crichton for his allusions to what she terms contemporary "hot-button" issues.
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Critical Review by Publishers Weekly
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In the following review of The Lost World, the critic applauds Crichton's grasp of science but faults the characterizations and the originality of the story.
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Critical Review by Mark Annichiarico
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In the following review, Annichiarico compares The Lost World to Jurassic Park.


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The Lost World by Michael Crichton

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