This novel didn't appeal to me as much as the first Jurassic Park.Micheal Crihton should have left Ian Malcolm out of this story because any person who had suffered a life threatening experience like he had to face, would never go back to a similar place to Jurassic Park . The first novel had a plot which connected to everything in the story. This Novel was basically go to the Island, run from Dinosaurs,then escape from the Island. In the begining of the book Dinosaurs were being washed up on beaches in Costa Rica. The only reason they were going to go to the island was to see what was driving these creatures into the ocean. It never came out with why the dinosaurs were swimming from the island. There was some good action throughout the book . I was disappointed with this novel and that is why I only gave it 3 Stars.

The Lost World is even more exciting than Jurrasic Park. It has lots of twists and turns that should make you lose track of time and miss class. The main thing that made the book exciting is that it has missing links to the first book in the sequel.

Like i said before i recomend this book to anybody that likes blood and horrer,i saw the movie and it was scary but when i saw the book i was so amaized that i bought it and i read it over and over again and again.I think the book was better than the movie because they added more action and more of the scarry stuff and I know im going to read it again but i probibley wont right again but you can find another one of my coments in a book cald Desparete Persute,my name is JESSE GALINDO if you can find me.

I got this book not for the way it was written - I understood it was for younger kids, but rather I got it for the colorful and beautiful photos and facts about Ancient Egypt. I myself love Ancient Egypt and enjoy reading anything on the subject, plus I love The Mummy and will no doubt love The Mummy Returns. I have already also read the novel by Max Allan Collins. It was fast-paced and exciting. So if you're older and interested in The Mummy Returns, you can still get this book. It's a treat for the eyes, and simply nice to have. I can't wait for the arrival of the film itself!

I usually don't even buy these kinds of things, but I lumped it in with other stuff and it was a great buy for the price.

The images were great and a special pleasant surprise was teh first person vantage from Alex's viewpoint. For that alone it is priceless.

And if you're like me, the pages are great for wallpaper, postcards, etc....oops!!!

When I first got The Mummy Returns Scrapbook by John Whitman, I was amazed by the pictures and the time and effort put into the making of this awesome scrapbook. This Scrapbook also gives the story of the book as well as amazing pictures. This book was written fantasticly, and assembled with a lot of thought behind it. If I could say one word abouth this wonderful book, that word would be "Awesome"!

It was bizzare. I loved it.

Zack, Tash, and Hoole Go to see Jabba the hutt for help. While there Tash and Zack meet monks that can make brain transfers from one being to another or into a brain spider. But its getting out of hand.

I just finished reading this for the therd time last night. This is just one of those books that you can't put down. Its got a great plot but i'm not going to tell you the end. But for the people who want to know what that spider thing is craling past the door of jabba's palice in return of the jedi is, read this book.

I loved this book! Zak and Tash go to Jabba the Hutt this time. And few things happen. This is a great book for kids and adult that are crazy about Star Wars.

In this book Zak and Tash are on a space cruiser. But Zak won't come out of his Room. He say's "something will happen to me if I come out. But Tash aranges for him to go to the main control room. That gets him excited! But he just happend to get there during this crazy tecky's work shift. The guy doesn't want Zak around so he tells him to press some buttons and when Zak does the ships power goes out! This little cruise has turned into a great big mess. This book will scare as well as surprise you. More surprising than scaring though. Hope you enjoyed reading this review and hope it helped you out to.

Tash and zac go to a cruise ship only to find out the ship is to be taken over by a weird bug. tash befriends a stranger that zac doesnot like . Hang on to your seatbelt as you go along on a fast breathtaking adventure with tash and zac rent this book today.

This book is very different from the others in the series. Instead of one big problem the book is a lot of problems, also it is the only book in the series where so many people die and you feel sorry for them. You would never imagine that such harmless technology can be so deadly, and you would never guess who the killer is.

Zak and Tash "rest" on the planet Dantooine, where their uncle Hoole takes notes on the natives that live there. Tash has a dream about the dark side of the Force and she begins to use the Force for evil. When Hoole, Zak, and Tash run into another adventure, Tash must choose between the light or the dark side. The outcome really surprised me!

Tash and zac are on a vaction to dantoonie. where a tribe of dantinara are looking for food. the garoo tells tash about a jedi temple . tash cheackes it out when a clone of her hits her in the head with a rock . will tash accape . buy this today

I think that this book is the last book in the series, and I also get the feeling that John Whitman just hurriedly tried to finish it off. For instance, the introduction to the real story takes half of the book, and also, it is so predictable what the ending is going to be. But aside from that it is a really great book just like all the others in the series. I also really like the book because it takes place on the Dagobah system, and it includes a lot of stuff that was in the movies.

I think this is the finish of the series,and all in all this was just a great book.I'd lend it to my friend any day!

If you really look at it, "Adventures On File Island" is hard to decide if it's 2nd or 3rd best because it has a good introduction to Digimon, but this book dosen't have all that Digimon Vol. 1 has. It's still good though, if you read it and thnik overall about the action. This isn't the best one, but if I were you I'd read it.

...I have a better idea. One, wear a cool cowgirl suit like Mimi. Two, if you like this book, just buy the cotton pickin' thing, okay? Three, if I was Tanemon or Palmon, I'd stick by Mimi's side all day and all night.

This book AKA "And so it begins, Parts 1 and 2". It's still good, though, but I'd not rate it much higher than the first reviewer.

This book is basically just the first two episodes in print. There is nothing new here. I would save my money and just tape the show.

I think that this book would be about 2 kids that fight giant bugs. Yes,the book was what I Expected It to be. I still feel the same about this book. Nothing about this book has changed.
Thi9s book is about these kids who go to this planet called
''Sk'rrr'' and one of the kids accidently kills a bug. The main characters are:Zak,Tash,and Hoole.The setting is at the Sikadian
Garden. The Book was actually about 3 kids that go to a planet called''sk'rrr''and one of them kills a shreev and it upsets the swarm of bugs.This book is Fiction.The author is John Whitman.
I like this book because it has fighting in the book and it
has adventure striving in it. I would rate this book 4 stars. The
headline for this book is:The Sikadian Garden on Sk'rrr has many
beautiful plants and flowers.

I usually steer clear of kid's books, but my sister had and I only read this book because it had Grand Admiral Thrawn in it. It wasn't bad, for a kid's book, pretty interesting in some parts. I felt Thrawn should have gotten a better role in the book. Other than that, it's pretty good.

I only read this book because it had Grand Admiral Thrawn in it. It wasn't bad, for a kid's book, pretty interesting in some parts. I felt Thrawn should have gotten a better role in the book. Other than that, it's pretty good.

This book is the equivalent of a two-hundred-plus page poem, for the text is wistful, metaphorical and languid. Other than how beautifully it is written, the gnarled, diminutive plot takes suspension of disbelief to swallow all the circumstances and events following the climax.

White Oleander, put simply, is the coming-of-age tale of a young girl separated from her mother by imprisonment for a hideous crime, and the tribulations she must endure to find her crumbling identity in a corrupt society. Though the book is lyrical and rhythmic in its amorous decree, the tale is heart-breaking and morose with its many tragedies and unrelenting focus on the struggle to survive in a cruel world.

It all begins with a lover scorned, Ingrid Magnussen, a meditative, sharp-tongued poet with a touch of evil lurking in the pit of her stomach. She is enamored by the most unlikely of men and becomes passionate towards his nature, oblivious to the fact that she is not the only woman in his life. When she discovers her boyfriend's random activities, she concocts a deadly poison derived from the very title of the novel while her daughter Astrid (the main character) looks on in quiet contemplation. Soon after her lover's death, she is promptly arrested and sent to prison, leaving Astrid a helpless orphan without the vaguest conception of the consequences of her mother's actions.

From this point, Astrid is moved to and from three different foster residences, each one leaving more tragedy behind than the previous home. She is scarred for life by the bullet of a jealous lover, marred by a crazed canine, captivated by the lifestyle of a neighborly prostitute and gains a sense of control over the hypnotic power her mother casts in the poisoning letters she recurrently writes from the confinements of her cell.

I do not give four stars for the unbelievably outlandish plot, but simply for the bravery of Janet Fitch for a first novel with this context and the intelligence and imagination incorporated into her writing. May she be just as creative and triumphant with her second piece, and may we bless her with a five-star rating when it hits the shelves of Barnes and Noble, B. Dalton et.al worldwide.

Opening this book was like opening the door to an unknown soul; full of misery and mistrust. Fitch tells a heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, and thought-provoking tail of girl forced to grow up too fast. "The future was a white fog into which I would vanish, unmarked by the flourish of a rustling taffeta blue and gold. No mother to guide me." In reading this and the myriad of other poetic metaphors filling this book, chills shot down my spine. As I read, Fitch's words seeped through me like the poison of oleanders; affecting and intertwining her characters unpredictably. Her investigations of a vulnerable youth's reality lead me to question my own environment, and to discover more efficient ways to approach imperfections. And her vast exploration of the human heart and mind was both informative and beautiful. With her artful and detailed writing style, her story never failed to intrigue and entertain me. I must say that White Oleander was in every possible aspect one of the best books I have ever read.

I don't wait with baited breath for Oprah to tell me what book to buy next. But, after hearing her proclaim "White Oleander" the best book she's ever read, you know I was mentally forced to get it. I'm so glad I did. Janet Fitch is a wonderful author-her use of similes and metaphors is amazing. We have Ingrid, a narcisstic, over-the-top mother whose daughter, Astrid, worships her and hangs on her every word. Unfortunately, Ingrid feels the defenition of being a mother stopped at actually pushing her baby out, because Astrid is pretty much cast to the four winds. The only wisdom this so-called "mom" is interested in imparting to her precious daughter is in the form of poetry and prose-like speech- "never let a man stay the night; dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic". Excuse me? After Ingrid is arrested and charged with poisoning her lover (using the poisonous white oleander flowers that grow everywhere around them); Astrid is shuttled from one bogus foster home to another. She is shot at, gets mauled by a pit bull, kept in a home where the refridgerator is padlocked and the girls practically starve, and is forced to sell clothes for the foster "mom" in one house. Where's the beauty of the novel?, you may ask. Unbelievably, Astrid manages to find at least one piece of beauty and/or wisdom in each home she stays at and that, eventually, will educate and shape the woman she is to become. Ingrid writes to her from prison, telling her not to complain about her foster homes. "If they're not beating you, consider yourself lucky", she writes. Hmmmph. I found myself wishing they'd have given this selfish woman the chair. If the storyline doesn't sell you, believe me, Janet Fitch's fabulous writing will. Defenitely a book you'll want on your shelf for years to come.

Being a big fan of Zorro when I was a child, I purchased this book to read in my spare time. I was expecting a fairly toned-down, zorro story-it seems Zorro is being tailored for younger audiences these days, forgetting the adults. The book is an easy read and holds your interest, although its very predictable which does spoil the fun. There is heaps of action, and the ending was quite decent. However, it would be nice if Zorro didn't make too many appearances, infact Zorro is around more then "Don Diego", which is not a good idea. In my humble opinion Zorro must only come in when necessary so this makes his presence special! The story juggles between trying to satisfy both adult and younger readers, but it still doesn't mean I didnt enjoy it. Zorro is pitted against a mysterious "Witch" who may or may not have a connection to a series of ruthless pirate attacks on California. The Witch uses "special effects" to create illusions and soon Zorro discovers her true identity. Nice plot, but I wish, in future, that more "adult" Zorro novels are published - to balance things evenly.

This is the best zorro book in the series thus far; however I also should note that this is the first by Whitman. Unlike the previous books that feature samuari warriors and cult-like villians that are magicians (which stray FAR from the original Zorro story-line) this book is much more believable.

This is the third "new" adventure, and continues to have replaced Zorro's original love interest Lolita, with the much the more intriguing Arcadia.

Whitman portrays Zorro much like McCulley - this book is an enjoyable read.

This is three in a series, so far, by Tor/Forge paperbacks, with approval from Zorro Productions.

Zorro is presented in a delightful description and the characters are fun! Couldn't put it down.

I hope Tor/Forge books will come out with a new Zorro paperback (mass production) for this year, 2001!

Z forever!