- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Ace Books (April 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0441009212
- ISBN-13: 978-0441009213
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,507,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
Have you read End of the Matter, Midworld or Mid-Flinx? As with these you will find yourself in the primeval forest, but instead of strange life forms or mutated humans you find youself face to face with intelligent dinosaurs. The characters may be shallow but you like them and feel for their predicament. Keelk (a struthiomuses) who fights to save her family from slavery at the hands of nneteenth century pirates. To this end she involves the brash self-assured Will Denison a teenage human citizen of Dinotopia and Chaz a young protoceratops translator of the various dinotopian dialects. The three follow the pirates through the T-Rex huants of the Rainy Basin. The future adventures of Will Denison and associates may becomes the books to buy if Foster develops his characters into rounded believable sapient beings.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A notch or two above the original Dinotopia books.
13 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover
A few of the reviewers below slam "Dinotopia Lost" by Alan Dean Foster because they claim that the language is too difficult for children. But in doing so, they forget to look at its merits as, simply, a book.
This is an excellent novel that I, a college junior at time of writing, have read and reread numerous times. I personally feel that Foster managed to develop the characters of the Denisons to a level that even James Gurney, Dinotopia's creator, was unable to. He infuses the new characters with much three-dimensionality as well, especially the wild and wily pirate captain Brognar Blackstrap and his intellectual first mate, Priester Smiggens. And Tarqua, a character who shows up near the end of the book, is such a delight that if I tell you more about him I'll ruin some of the book's best moments.
Please, don't judge this as a "children's book." Judge it as a full-fledged novel, like I did.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Best By Far
29 Dec 2002
Format:Paperback
Dinotopia Lost is an exceptionally written masterpiece, and anyone who says otherwise hasn't read it! The beginning dragged because it was setting the scene and characters, but Alan Foster made Dinotopia seem like an actual spot on the map. It was full of traps, pirates, kidnapping, rescue, amazing creatures, and everything else that is essential to a spectacular fantasy novel. This book is truly a work of art that should be enjoyed by all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
very good, and very exciting
11 Feb 2001
Format:Paperback
This is a great, great book. I loved every moment of it. The entire time I was reading it, I was either sighing, because I would rather be in Dinotopia then our world, or my heart was pounding through my chest. The book was very descriptive, without spending too many words giving useless details, and the scenes were almost visible. It was almost like I was in the book, watching what was going on, which only a small number of books have done for me. The plot is excellent, and has a nice, fulfilling ending. Foster brings the reading-level up, which overall made for a better book, in my opinion. Some of the other Dinotopia books were quick, fun romps, but this was a full-scale novel, and it was extremely good. I recommend it to everyone.
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