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Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free.
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Quite an exciting and lively book, atleast in the initial and middle parts. Hilarious at times. Becomes a little predictable and slow towards the end, but a superb story worth reading atleast once in your lifetime. Some great quotes on leadership and dealing with difficult circumstances.
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First I've had a chance to read this novel and I somehow have managed to avoid hearing about what this story is about. Part of me expected the dinosaurs to fill up the entire plot line after they reached the plateau, I didn't expect this to story to swerve into a telling of a battle of an indigenous people and anthropoid ape-men.
This story is definitely a product of its time, with instances of racism and sexism towards various characters. On a positive note, there's quite a bit of science related to botany and zoology that I ended up going to Wikipedia to read up on as I read this story.
Overall, this story reminds me of several others where the adventure is the main focus and not the action (though this is obviously present) and I can appreciate stories like that.
DNFed at 45%.Too much racism, colonialism, and misogyny for my taste. The action and story wasn't super compelling either, somehow. I found [b:Journey to the Center of the Earth 32829 Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389754903l/32829.SY75.jpg 1924715] more exciting. It's not draggy per se, but I just wasn't really enjoying myself. Oh well.
I love how much of a man's book this is. It's just a work of epic bro-ship in exploration and tribal warfare. While I picked it up for the dinosaurs, I now return to it for the humor and nuance of the life lessons that are sometimes left to the discretion of the reader.
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4 primary booksProfessor Challenger is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1900 with contributions by Arthur Conan Doyle.