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lushbug 's review for:
The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Really enjoyed this. Published in 1912 by the man who created Sherlock Holmes it tells the story of a bunch of english gents/scientists who explore the amazon in the hope of finding evidence of living dinosours. They soon find what they were looking for but also get stranded in this lost world hiden deep in the Amazon. They find themsleves in the middle of a war between the Native Americans and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
Loved this book- well written and Doyle has perfect comic timing. Dialogue is all very well written and a pleasure to read.
Doyle does reveal his racism in his writing and the book is certainly a product of its time- native americans and the black people are all charecterised as being stupid and in need of white mans help to get along. Lots of american indians die and their deaths are writen in such a passive unemotive way and has as much impact as a bunch of ants being trod on. Racism in classic literature is nothing new though.
Loved this book- well written and Doyle has perfect comic timing. Dialogue is all very well written and a pleasure to read.
Doyle does reveal his racism in his writing and the book is certainly a product of its time- native americans and the black people are all charecterised as being stupid and in need of white mans help to get along. Lots of american indians die and their deaths are writen in such a passive unemotive way and has as much impact as a bunch of ants being trod on. Racism in classic literature is nothing new though.