Even as I listened to it sounded like the stories I wrote as a young teenager. This reads like a how a 14-year-old boy, a fan of Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Discovery channel documentaries on snakes would write a book. How good is it? Well l read it while on holidays in Eden, New South Wales, a beautifully scenic part of the world, only I didn't go and admire the scenery nor did I go and have the world's best fish and chips at The Great Southern Hotel. I spent many fascinating sessions reading the various wikis on things like monster prehistoric snakes, and killer cockroaches (brrrrr!). Beck has done a truckload of research and it shows. There's plenty of action and a great writing style to boot. Think of Greig Beck's story as a nicely updated and modernized version of the original, with hotter, smarter girls (and blokes) included and scarier beasts, and different enough to make it his own story. Shame he never wrote a sequel.Īnyway, here's yet another rewrite of the original Land of The Lost, and before you say, " Oh Beck has ripped off Conan Doyle's story," I can say no, he didn't - well maybe a teensy bit. But jeez I'm glad he wrote it, because I grew up on this stuff. I think Arthur himself, would be shocked by the cult his little story began. The Land That Time Forgot, Jurassic Park: Lost World, Land of The Lost (tv show), Lost, Dinosaur Island, and heaps of other books, movies and tv shows - all inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original book. In the remotest corners of Venezuela, along winding river trails known only to lost tribes, and through near impenetrable jungle, Ben and his novice team find a forbidden place more terrifying and dangerous than anything they could ever have imagined. For Ben and his friends, it becomes a race against time and against ruthless rivals. As Ben digs some more he finds clues to the whereabouts of a lost notebook that might contain a map to a place that is home to creatures that would rewrite everything known about history, biology and evolution.īut other parties now know about the notebook, and will do anything to obtain it. Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between the author, Arthur Conan Doyle and his great, great grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908.Īmazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long extinct creatures.
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