sueodd's review against another edition
3.0
This is the second time I've read this, although I had forgotten about my previous reading until they reached the lost world continent. So I'm already deducting points because it clearly didn't leave much of an impression on me the first time around.
The entire first half of the book was various mishaps and adventures at sea with German U Boats during WWI. It took up entirely too much of the story.
The evolutionary biologist in me is cringing at the jumbled mess of completely different eras represented on this island. Dinosours and Large Land Mammals, plus a variety of early hominids, all existing together with the earlier period flora and fauna occupying the southern part of the island, with the later period creatures more prevalent as you go north. I know Burroughs was trying to create a new form of evolution on this isolated continent, but it doesn't sit well with me.
The entire first half of the book was various mishaps and adventures at sea with German U Boats during WWI. It took up entirely too much of the story.
The evolutionary biologist in me is cringing at the jumbled mess of completely different eras represented on this island. Dinosours and Large Land Mammals, plus a variety of early hominids, all existing together with the earlier period flora and fauna occupying the southern part of the island, with the later period creatures more prevalent as you go north. I know Burroughs was trying to create a new form of evolution on this isolated continent, but it doesn't sit well with me.
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