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geowhaley 's review for:
Lost Horizon
by James Hilton
My Recommendation: Pass. It wasn’t that great of a read. There are better utopian fiction books out there and although this novel has a unique perspective — especially when you take into account it’s publication date and world events (1933, Great Depression, eve of WWII).
My Response: I read this book for our library book group, Books into Films. I just finished watching the film and as usual, the book was much better. I think you could say the film is ‘loosely’ – if even that – based on the book. There were so many additions that I was rather confused throughout.
My Response: I read this book for our library book group, Books into Films. I just finished watching the film and as usual, the book was much better. I think you could say the film is ‘loosely’ – if even that – based on the book. There were so many additions that I was rather confused throughout.
The novel, however, was well written and interesting enough if you can get past the first somewhat rather dull ‘old boys club’ sitting around a table rehashing their youth bit. If you make it past this bit, you see experience the (after the publication of this novel) legendary Shangri-La.
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