Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of her. Soon after, he meets Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a 'lost world' populated by pterodactyls and other prehistoric monsters.

This book is so much fun! I've read it twice.

Yeah, it's a fun read. A lot like an H. G. Wells story to me, and dinosaurs are always fun.

I forgot that at first they didn't think Professor Challenger was going with them.
Some day I have to read the other Professor Challenger books.

I've read a couple more in the series. They're fun!

It's kind of odd that it's just a plateau. Plenty of things must have gotten up or down in millions of years. Usually lost world books are on an island.

ACD really seems to like dinosaurs that hop.

And in the end Ed didn't get the girl but he got rich. That's much better.

Funny, I read this in March before I joined the group. Tremendously fun story. I really enjoyed this plausible alternate history type of sci-fi! I didn't even realize there were other Professor Challenger books until I looked the book up on Goodreads and saw the series notation.

ForestGardenGal wrote: "Funny, I read this in March before I joined the group. Tremendously fun story. I really enjoyed this plausible alternate history type of sci-fi! I didn't even realize there were other Professor Cha..."
I don't think it's that plausible really but it's fun.

I didnt know much about this, glad to see the group suggestion. I enjoyed it a lot and found it very fun! I might go on with the series. I was surprised by the plateau also, I thought maybe a big hidden valley or underground somehow.

I thought the setup took a little long and I barely remembered the girl by the end. Malone dodged a bullet there ;-)

Not sure on plausibility - certainly this is a oft-revisited theme in entertainment. Seeing repeated and various scenarios makes it feel more real I think. I always thought it was somehow related to Land of the Lost. But No.

I see it as a plausible type of sci-fi because it is the same physical mechanism that allowed island life to evolve separately from mainland life. It has actually happened in our world and in our prehistorical timeline.

This therefore is a much more plausible concept than sci-fi concepts such as viruses that make pigs talk or radioactivity that causes abnormal "superhero" traits, right? 😁

Exactly!

So true! Very eloquently put!