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Summary: Lost World Aliens
Review: I loved this adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World". Alien Voices presents these classic stories in high style and I enjoy them immensly. The characterizations are the best. You can't go wrong with Leonard Nimoy and John DeLancie, et al. Great 'hear'.....believe me!
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Summary: The Best of Doyle's stories
Review: I've read some of Doyle's work, but after reading this story I was stunned. In this timeless tale a Zoologist (Proffesor George E. Challenger)leads an expedidition into Amazon trying to find a land inhabited by dinosaurs. With him he brings a young journilist (Edward Malone), an adventurer (Lord John Roxton), and another proffesor (Proffesor Summerlee). With their bearers and guids they set fourth towrds their destination... THE LOST WORLD. Only as they meet their destination something goes wrong leaving them stranded in The Lost World for what seems to be forever... Therefore, I rate it a five for it's thrills and chills. Your, Reviewer for the George E. Challenger books, Austin T. Van Tassel
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Summary: THE FIRST AND STILL THE BEST!
Review: Look out Mr. Crichton, the original is still the best. The premise of a lost world in the middle of the Amazon is not only possible but plausible. There areas in the Amazon that man has never stepped foot in and there is no telling what could be found in those areas.Professor Challenger is an engaging character as he takes his small group of adventurers into the wilds of the Amazon, to confirm to the world that his dicovery of a lost world with Jurassic dinosaurs, is indeed real. Man eating dinosaurs, ape men, cave men and an entire new world, who wouldn't want to go?
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Summary: The good and the bad
Review: This review is in reference to the "Alien Voices" CD audio presentation of the "Lost World" by Sir Athur Conan Doyle. The adaptation by Alien voices was excellent. The voices of Star Treks' John de Lancie and Leonard Nimoy were remarkable. These two readers along with a powerful orchestra accompaniment provide a thrilling and engaging rendition of this classic. Very satisfying indeed. The only qualm I have is the reworking of the plot and characters. I think that the plot reworking made the story easier to tell but not to listen. There were many events that would not have made sense to me unless I had previously read the work. Over all a decent script of a superb classic with a wonderfully choreographed production.
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Summary: This Romance is the Holy Bible of Cryptozoologists
Review: When I was young, my grandfather read this book aloud to me, and it was for me then, as it is now, a truly exciting story of dangerous lands, heroic exploits, fantastic situations and odd peoples and events. My grandfather was an amateur naturalist of some knowledge and experience, and I believed him when he told me that there were secret places on the map where Nature--the way he said it, I couldn't help but hear the term personified and capitalized--had given refuge from the forces of extinction and evolution to certain of her children, and that they had survived to the present day, just as the book promised. He and I conspired to travel someday to the plateau which the adventurers in this romance explore, and bring a stegosaurus or pterodactyl back to civilization, to put in our local zoo. This book was one of the strongest bonds we shared: he recited it to me time and again, until I knew it by heart. I still hear his strongly accented voice every time I re-read the tale. I can also hear him saying again and again, "You and I will go to that secret place, Hermes, we will go to Maple White Land and bring one of these prehistoric creatures back to civilization." Swept up in his vision, it was a dream I have never forgotten: to travel with him to seek out the places where nature kept her secrets, and to reveal her clandestine museum to the rest of the world. Such were my dreams of adventure, when I was but a child. It is possible to read this work as merely a tale of adventure, and that would be enough: it is one of the best of its kind (it also pokes fun at itself and the adventure genre as a whole). The prime mover in the story's events, Professor George Edward Challenger, is simply unforgettable: he is a renowned intellectual, who, in defending himself against accusations of fraud, behaves like a common street thug, and who storms through the narrative like a force of nature. His three fellow travellers, Malone, Summerlee, and Lord Roxton, each with their very different motivations, are no less fascinating and carefully drawn, and it is a pleasure to watch the clever way in which they face the difficulties into which their zeal for scientific inquiry, or glory, or adventure deliver them. In reading this book, one is swept away on a perfect mixture of realistic detail, exciting narrative, strong character sketches, and just the right amount of self-parody to be convinced that such a place as Maple White Land might really exist. Partly because of the conviction with which the story is told, and the risks the author takes by poking fun at the characters and their intentions, it has a deeper meaning in our culture than do most mere adventure stories. Just as Edward Abbey's _Monkey Wrench Gang_ is the Holy Bible of eco-terrorists, so too is this story the sacred tome of material cryptozoologists (material cryptozoologists being distinct from their paranormal colleagues, who work from the premise that cryptozoological creatures are in fact phantoms, or manifestations of the id). This book is less a step by step guide to mounting a cryptozoological expedition--such a book, I believe, yet remains to be written--than it is an invocation of the necessary world view for material cryptozoologists. The premise of Conan Doyle's text is that there are places where creatures which ought to have disappeared into the past are still alive. These creatures, if discovered, would more or less fit into our vision of biology as we know it now: there may be new species, genera, or perhaps even phyla, but there would be nothing that would demand that we revise our understanding of physics or psychology. These creatures could become part of the present paradigms quite nicely, and Linnaeus, Darwin and their intellectual progeny would retain their places in the scientific pantheon. Just how powerful its influences upon the field of cryptozoology have been is clear in the seminal work of that discipline, Bernard Heuvelman's _On the Track of Unknown Animals._ The index of this book lists Conan Doyle's name six times, and the title of Chapter 1, "There are Lost Worlds Everywhere," is clearly derived from the romance. The history of cryptozoology is full of adventurers and scientists like those in Conan Doyle's work, going forth into strange lands, seeking improbable beasts. _The Lost World_ is the bible of all cryptozoologists, and Professor Challenger, their patron saint. He would be pleased at the efforts of such scientists as Clementi Onelli and Roy Mackal to expose to the eyes of the world those creatures that have escaped time's abyss. Because of this book, and the bond it gave me with my grandfather, I have been inspired to travel and seek out the hidden secrets of Nature, though my interests are largely protozoological rather than cryptozoological. In the same spirit of adventure in which this book was written, I have entered the hidden places of the globe in search of new protozoans, including the secret corners of South America, from the mouth of the Orinoco to the tops of the Andes. My eyes have seen great wonders there: one gets a different sense of time, as if it passed more slowly, as if the forces which shaped this world are still playing with this sphere and its inhabitants, safeguarding old forms and molding new ones out of the four elements known to the ancient philosophers. It would not surprise me very much if there were indeed lost worlds or new ones hidden amidst those jungles, plains, and mountains, or if supposedly extinct creatures lived there yet, or strange new monsters based on old models, born of the comminglings of Time and Nature, had been released to the world in that savage paradise.
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Summary: The Lost World
Review: The sequal to the great book Jurassic park was a dud. This book was a big let down. This is the only bok I can say that I liked the movie better. The whole Idea and storie line is boring and so predictable. A group of people coming to document a bunch of lost, and dead animals are not to exciting. The only thing this book had going for its self was it was the sequal to a best seller. Readers beware this book isn't worth your time. Stay away. The only thing That I can say that is good for this book is, "The Dinosaures win again." No surprise their. In closing, If your bored and don't have anyother book to read, mabey then read this book.
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Summary: Grand adventure in 1910s.
Review: Edward Malone, reporter for the Daily Gazette, finds himself caught up in the claims of the eccentric Professor G. E. Challenger to have found a South American plateau where dinosaurs still live. Malone volunteers for a fact-finding mission, along with the dubious Professor Summerlee and the fearless big game hunter Lord John Roxton. The band voyages to South America, journeys to the plateau, and finds it filled with plants and animals for many different epochs. Finding themselves marooned on the plateau, the team faces many dangers and adventures. While somewhat dated, this book is well written and exciting to read. As a matter of fact, part of the book's charm is its pre-Great War feel. If you like adventure stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, or big game hunters, then this book is for you!
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Summary: THE BEST
Review: It Is The Best Work Of This Century ,every single person around the world must read it.
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Summary: Light adventure novel about a mysterious plateau land
Review: This enjoyable novel led to the silent movie, and is similar to it in much the same way as Jurassic Park was to its movie. That is, they are a bit different, although the basic outline and characters are the same. The scientific claims of a Professor Challenger as to the existence of a land sporting unusual fauna is challanged by the London Zoological Institute who send an investigating expedition to the plateau. As for the insitute, there is a fair amount of passion for science and opinion, which seems unrealistic today. Shouting down, rioting, etc. The story is told as a narrative by a journalist who goes on the expedition because of his girlfriend. There is much less emphasis on dinosaurs than one would think, and does not have the gripping quality of Jurassic Park. But it probably deserves a 3 1/2 star rating.
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Summary: The earliest Lost World tale of dinosaurs in modern times.
Review: This book is one of a number of Professor Challenger adventures of Sir A. C. Doyle. A noted zoologist (Challenger) has come across evidence that there is a plateau in South America that can be reached from deep in the Amazon rain forest in which prehistoric animals still exist. An expedition of four (Challenger, a sceptical zoologist named Summerlee, a noted hunter (Lord John Roxton), and Edward Malone, a journalist) sets out to verify this report. The arguing and interactions between the academics is interesting in that little seems to have changed in the last 87 years! It should be noted that Doyle isolates the plateau so that there is minimal interaction with the rest of the rain forest (thus, the dinosaurs can't escape). But, why couldn't the ptereodactyls spread out? This story was one of the earliest "Lost World" tales and has been made into a film a number of times. Other stories in this sub-genre owe much to Doyle and Challenger.
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