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Summary: a fun quick read
Review: This was a great summer read. It goes quick, i keeps your attention, and its just good fun. The suspense definitely boils as the plot unfolds which truely makes it hard to lay this one down. Although a bit dated, i found it to be very well constructed. A good story, interesting characters, and alot of mystery. Simply put, one of the better classic adventure tales i have had the pleasure of reading. Highly recommended if your not looking to for something to deep.
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Summary: A wonderful novel of hope and faith.
Review: When I read this book, I was transformed! I could actually breath the fresh, cold, Himalayan air that Conway and his entourage and the people of Shangri-La breathed. The language the novel is written in is beautiful and picturesque.When Conway and his companions flee the warring land they come from, (in a way) they find themselves hijacked, whisked away to paradise: Shangri-La, a place where the air is clean and the living is natural and spiritual and, "moderate." Where people live naturally long lives, hundreds of years, in peace, in love, at one with nature. Hilton's book wisely illustrates that some can never be happy in paradise, they must go on and on searching, but too incredulous to ever actually find anything. In Shangri-La the people, the good, natural people await the destruction of the "outside world," which will surely occur at it's own hand sooner or later as long as people rule themselves with war, lack of moderation, hatred, and a lack of regard for the spiritual nature of humanity. Then the people of Shangri-La will spread the paradise to the far reaches of earth. No doubt, James Hilton has read not only the Bible, but many other spiritual books, because I find myself thinking of Buddism, Judaism, Christianity (as opposed to Christendom), Hinduism, and other Eastern religions and forms of spirituality and well as Western religion and forms of spirituality. What an inspiring view. The "outside" world will eventually destroy itself if humanity continues on the road of "unintelligent leadership," war, hatred, discrimination, excess, selfishness, lack of moderation, lack of respect and care for nature, lack of conservation, lack of respect for self, and lack of respect and care for other human beings and all our fellow animals. The question is: Will there be a "Shangri-La" there to save us? Do we really want to take that chance?
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Summary: Intrigue
Review: Hilton does what so many others wish to do. He writes the sublime novel in an attempt to provoke the reader. His style is fluid and mysterious. His message is powerful and at the time of the novel preemptive. He saw nastiness on the horizon and wished for something better. He found it in this novel. I leave the rest for you. I hate to give too much away. If you are of a certain mind you will love this book and love the questions it makes you ask yourself.
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Summary: This is a good novel
Review: I am not much of a reader, but I like Hiltons style of writing. I got right into the book. Once I started reading it I hardly wanted to put it down. I think Lost Horizon is an excellent novel. I would read this book again.
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Summary: I loved the book and have read it over and over.
Review: I loved the book, since the first time I read in 1969 for a tenth-grade English class. I have read it over and over and each time I feel like I am reading for the first time. Mr. Hilton wrote in such a way, that you feel that you are right there and you can't put the book down until you finish it. I too would like to know Mr. Hilton's life story; although I had wondered if his book "Time and Time Again" was somewhat of a biography. I find it amazing that a book written over sixty years ago can still have such appeal.
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Summary: ask the life story of the writer
Review: I am a chinese reader, I hope to know the life story, the booklist of Jemas. Hilton after I had read the novel <The Lost Horizon >. Please tell me the required data or tell me the address of his heir.
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Summary: MY FAVORITE STORY
Review: When I was a teenager, I went to see the movie Lost Horizon seven times. During my 74 years, I read the book many times. After I retired, I made four trips to that part of the world, and spent many months each time searching for that wonderful Shangri-La dream. If you have never read Hilton's classic, and you are a person with an optimistic spiritual outlook, then The Lost Horizon is a must for you. If you read it and want to believe it, then you should visit Burma and the temples of the ancient city of Pagon, and then spend time in the three kingdoms of the Himalayas: Nepal, Ladakh and Bhutan, in that order. You will be moved to tell others, or write about your spiritual experience. I was so moved. May your days be filled with the magic of life. Sirrom
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Summary: An odd little book, really
Review: Though this books seems to have acheived "classic" status, I'm not sure it necessarily belongs there. I was pleasantly surprised by some of the ideas and a little amazed by Hilton's seeming to predict the concept of (though not in so many words) nuclear war a good 15 or so years before Hiroshima.As a period piece it was charming, but it was so sparse in its style that it left me wanting more and didn't so much end as just kind of fade away.
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Summary: enchanting! caution: may cause wanderlust!
Review: This easy-to-read classic is a gem! I finished it in 1 sitting & couldn't wait to find out what would happen to the travelers. Loved every word of it & would recommend this to anyone who loves exotic places.
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Summary: Hilton writes so mysteriously and so full of vividness.
Review: This is an excellent novel by James Hilton.There is something sepcial about the way he writes and the way he describes his characters. His unique way of writing leaves you suspended and awed. At the conclusion you do not know what to believe. I think everyone should read it, it's an excellent book.
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