Alien: Lost World Cd : Alient Voices Series

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Summary: The best novel about dinosaurs and lost worlds!!
Review: I've just finished reading the book. It's wonderful! It guides you through the book, and when you want to see how much you've read, you see you're in the end, and you can't believe it. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.

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Summary: CRICHTON, EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!
Review: For those readers who love a good "lost world" story, well told and with plenty of exciting action and detail, this book is a must. One terrific scene follows another, and the principal characters, especially the incomparable Professor Challenger, are well drawn. It should come as no surprise that this novel is far superior to the silent film of the '20s that was made following the book's huge success. I won't even go into that recent popular dinosaur novel/movie that ripped off Conan Doyle's title. In short, hey--they don't call these books classics for nothing!

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Summary: Whew.
Review: This is the only Doyle book I ever read. His idea is nothing short of remarkable...but at times he tends to ramble on which makes it slightly boring at times. I found his descriptions of the plataeu rather confusing. Does anyone agree?

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Summary: Doyle puts you in the action.
Review: Doyle puts you in the action. He makes you want to be on the Challenger expidition. His writting is so discriptive you can see the see all the action take place. The book starts slow but really picks up as the adventure begins. The old English language is a bit distracting at first, but once you get past that the book is great.

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Summary: Tedious. Really would have given it a 2.49999999999999999999
Review: This book's style of writing was to bore you. All the other of Doyle's books are so cool! Was Doyle in a coma when he wrote this? It had a non-exciting plot but on a mildly exciting subject. If you want to read Doyle, read "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

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Summary: Alien Voices Series keeps on getting better
Review: Combine the feel of old-time radio, modern sound quality, and familiar Trek actor voices and you've got a winner. Combine THAT with Doyle's original premise of the hidden amazon plateua, and you've got something that's a lot of fun to listen to, repeatedly. The plot doesn't focus on the dinosaurs, nor does it allow itself to be updated much at all-- Doyle's original plot shines through. I applaud the AV team for resisting updating these classic tales; they survive on their own merit, despite their age. Young and old readers, whether familiar with the Doyle novel, will enjoy this treatment. I found it also surprising that this was essentially a live performance; a real rarity in audio dramitization.

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Summary: A Wonderful Adventure Story
Review: I first read this book when I was 11 years old. It enthralled me and probably started my life long fascination with well written science fiction and fantasy stories. I read it again recently at age 40 and enjoyed it as least as much all over again. Read this one and forget about the Michael Crichton novel of the same name.

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Summary: A new, fully-dramatized version of a classic story
Review: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, so obviously Alien Voices isn't the "author," but we are the producers of this new, fully dramatized adaptation of the sf/fantasy classic. It was recorded live in performance at the Creation Entertainment Grand Slam V "Star Trek" (R) convention in Pasadena, California in March, 1997 and features sound effects, original music (by Peter Erskine) and an all-"Star Trek" cast. It is also remarkably faithful to the original book, so we hope that listeners will be pleased.

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Summary: Before Speilberg or Jurassic Park there was Doyle!
Review: In the recent sequel to Jurassic Park the movie, "Jurassic Park: Lost World", the obivious reference to this classic novel is made in the title. That is where the similarity ends. The movie was a joke, the book was fanatasic. I much prefer Doyle's rendition of dinosaurs in mondern day to the fuzzy plots of frog-dna-reborn Veloci-Raptors running amuk, but that's me. I would, however, recommend that before you allow yourself to be polluted by the movie, you do honor to the reference by getting and reading this book

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Summary: An adventurous story that reveals dinosaur existence
Review: The first book of the Professor Challenger Series and certainly the best. The Lost World takes place in a remote island near South America where dinosaurs still exist through a preserved tropical environment. The famous Professor Challenger along with his team find the island and explore the truth that it holds, concluding that the era they have traveled to is far more dangerous than they have ever imagined.