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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
This was a lot better than I thought it would be! It was interesting and fun. I hated the romance thing from the get go. I mean, dude, she said she wasn’t interested. But whatever.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
In which a man refuses to take no for an answer when he proposes to his beloved lady, so poor lady has to send him away to The Lost World with dinosaurs and apemen to get away from him.
This book was good just not great. I enjoyed the adventure parts, which seemed few and far between. The narrator of the story was pretty boring and naive. I thought Challenger was a great character, in an over the top arrogant sort of way. Overall I enjoyed the story just nothing that really wowed me.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation is obviously Sherlock Holmes, the arrogant detective that goes around England solving insolvable crimes and proving Scotland Yard and the general public wrong at every turn. His second most famous creation is probably this book and its main character Professor Challenger, an arrogant scientist that goes around the world making impossible claims and proving the science community and general public wrong at every turn. Sound familiar? Doyle certainly has a preference for this archetype and it’s even more prevalent in “The Lost World” than it is in most Sherlock Holmes stories.
“The Lost World” tells us the story of an eccentric professor that claims that there is a section of unexplored South America still teeming with prehistoric life (a.k.a. dinosaurs) and that they have lived there pristinely for millions of years surviving extinction. After getting laughed out of the building, Professor Challenger takes a fellow scientist, an adventurer, and a journalist there to prove his point. We follow along through the eyes of the journalist as they encounter all sorts of adventures and mishaps deep in the jungle of South America. Trapped and surrounded by dinosaurs and prehistoric monkey men, can they find a way out?
Predating the Jurassic Park books, this might be the granddaddy of the “Dinosaurs in Modern Times” plot line. And I have to say, it’s not too bad. It’s a short read but it’s filled with a decent amount of adventure. The territorial war going on between the “ape-men” and the “Indians” was a nice subplot that I didn’t see coming. The encounters with the dinosaurs were limited but fun. I do have a fair amount of grievances with this book however.
If you are looking for a Jurassic Park-type involving heavy amounts of interaction with the dinosaurs, you’re going to be disappointed by this one. Half of this book involved these characters messing around in London or in transit to the actual “Lost World”. We have all kinds of scientific meetings and useless boat rides before we make it to where the cover told me we were going.
To make matters worse, there’s this tertiary plot about why the journalist is going on this journey in the first place. It’s about how he’s out to prove to this woman he loves that he’s courageous or something; either way, I couldn’t care less about it and it adds nothing to the overall story.
The borderline racism in this one is also a problem. I realize that this was written in a different time but there were some parts of this where everyone was acting like these European explorers were the gods of these South Americans who were treated as if they were an inferior race. It made my skin crawl a little bit and took me completely out of the book a few times.
But if you can look past all of that, there’s enough excitement going on here to grasp your interest and hold on to it through this short novel. It’s definitely not a “must read”, but it is an okay time.
“The Lost World” tells us the story of an eccentric professor that claims that there is a section of unexplored South America still teeming with prehistoric life (a.k.a. dinosaurs) and that they have lived there pristinely for millions of years surviving extinction. After getting laughed out of the building, Professor Challenger takes a fellow scientist, an adventurer, and a journalist there to prove his point. We follow along through the eyes of the journalist as they encounter all sorts of adventures and mishaps deep in the jungle of South America. Trapped and surrounded by dinosaurs and prehistoric monkey men, can they find a way out?
Predating the Jurassic Park books, this might be the granddaddy of the “Dinosaurs in Modern Times” plot line. And I have to say, it’s not too bad. It’s a short read but it’s filled with a decent amount of adventure. The territorial war going on between the “ape-men” and the “Indians” was a nice subplot that I didn’t see coming. The encounters with the dinosaurs were limited but fun. I do have a fair amount of grievances with this book however.
If you are looking for a Jurassic Park-type involving heavy amounts of interaction with the dinosaurs, you’re going to be disappointed by this one. Half of this book involved these characters messing around in London or in transit to the actual “Lost World”. We have all kinds of scientific meetings and useless boat rides before we make it to where the cover told me we were going.
To make matters worse, there’s this tertiary plot about why the journalist is going on this journey in the first place. It’s about how he’s out to prove to this woman he loves that he’s courageous or something; either way, I couldn’t care less about it and it adds nothing to the overall story.
The borderline racism in this one is also a problem. I realize that this was written in a different time but there were some parts of this where everyone was acting like these European explorers were the gods of these South Americans who were treated as if they were an inferior race. It made my skin crawl a little bit and took me completely out of the book a few times.
But if you can look past all of that, there’s enough excitement going on here to grasp your interest and hold on to it through this short novel. It’s definitely not a “must read”, but it is an okay time.
Eine interessante Leseerfahrung - neues Wissen trifft auf alte Ansichten. Unterhaltsam war es trotzdem :)
The lost world starts with a fairly typical plot. Boy likes girl, girl tells him he is boring and needs to have adventure in his soul to marry her and a chain of events is set off. Written at a time when the last corners of the map were being filled, the lost world is well written with a strong plot. The story itself was a little lackluster and I found myself disappointed by the lack of action in the book. The actions scenes are more descriptive than prose and the narrator quite often skims over them. I learned a few new words as well. So enjoyable but not necessarily recommended.
I would have rated this book higher, but it hasn't really aged well. I could excuse some racism, sexism in century old books as being a product of that time, but it seemed like I encountered such a thing in every other statement, and it made me almost sick to my stomach, to be honest. It really took me away from actually enjoying the rest of it.
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No