Well, this book is a ton of fun.Haggard was enormously popular in his time; he and Robert Louis Stevenson were the two dominant adventure writers. (Trivia: this book is the response to a five-shilling dare from Haggard's brother that he couldn't write a book half as good as Treasure Island.)It's eno...
I've read this book three times now: once in undergrad, once for a seminar in grad school, and now for my exams. That's a lot of ol' Haggard, that Victorian adventure beast. At the time it was published, this book was advertised as "The Most Amazing Book Ever Written," which is pretty hilarious, b...
Re-read, er ...listen (audiobook).Update: I did not love this as much as I did when I was a kid. It seemed cartoonish and flat with little character development. Do I risk GR excommunication if I venture that maybe the movie is better than the book?Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is much, much ...
This is a classic adventure story taking the form of a long letter from Alan Quartermain to his brother, in which he narrates his experiences in search of a lost Englishman who was on a quest to find the legendary diamond mines of King Soloman.It is presented straightforwardly and suffers from being...
This story was not boring but why didn't I enjoy it there? Well because I was young and the victorian writing was not easy. I was used to fantasy novels and I was trying to read in english.. This was one of the first books I read in english. I think that's why I didn't enjoy it... The second book fr...
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