At the end of "Jurassic Park", the dinosaur island was destroyed. Butit turns out that they're still alive on another nearby island.There's a different team of good guys whose well-planned operationturns to chaos, and a different team of bad guys who stop at nothingtrying to recover the gene-manipulation technology. Ian Malcom, themathematician, is back from the dead to wisecrack us with his chaos-theoretical predictions. There are two different kids getting drawninto the operation by accident, again demostrating that people beyondthe age of twelve are no good at operating modern computer systems.And of course there's the main ingredient: a good helping of dinosaurs;cute pet dinos as well as vicious beasts slashing and eating people alive.The plot moves along much too predictably. If you haven't read "JurassicPark", read it instead, it's so much more original. If you did read it,read it again; "The Lost World" might give you some bad deja-vus.