The Lost World is 100 years old this month
No not Jurassic Park.. I am talking about A. Conan Doyle's book..
I actually own a copy from 1912.. its understandably in rough shape, it is 100 years old after all.. The gold print has worn away and the print on the cover is barely there. The pages themselves are in decent condition.. I personally have owned it for about 10 years.. This is actually the copy I read when I read the book for the first time.. there is something kind of cool about reading the first printing of an old book.. I wonder how many other people have read my copy over the years. Anyone else have this book?
I actually own a copy from 1912.. its understandably in rough shape, it is 100 years old after all.. The gold print has worn away and the print on the cover is barely there. The pages themselves are in decent condition.. I personally have owned it for about 10 years.. This is actually the copy I read when I read the book for the first time.. there is something kind of cool about reading the first printing of an old book.. I wonder how many other people have read my copy over the years. Anyone else have this book?
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They were astounded - see link for quote from "New York Times"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(1925_film)#Background
As I did with Dracula, I'm planning to read the book first and then watch all the adaptations. Which one would you say is the best Lost World one?
The 1925 original is the only one worth watching.
yes.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-World-ebook/dp/B004UJDLJE/
Also, here are other inexpensive (and possibly differently formatted) ebook versions:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=the+lost+world+doyle
What I mean by that is, the free version may not include the best form of (or any) Table of Contents or "chapter markers" (ie. markers which allow skipping from chapter to chapter at the press of a button); whereas a version which costs money may be formatted better as such. Download a demo first if you're not sure.
Uhhhhh my on/off lady from Nashville, a future surgeon, and all her friends all own nook colors. That thing is awesome.
If I wasn't getting a tablet, I would definitely consider an e-reader. The kindle, I think. I'm in a competition to win one at the moment at my college, (it's essentially a "read six books and we'll enter you into a raffle for it) thing. But very few people have actually entered, and fewer still have finished the competition, so my chances are quite high (One in 30 maybe.).
@Chyron: How can you have 38 Twilight books?!
On topic: What is the lost world book actually about? Still dinosaurs?
My wife likes certain Twilight fan-fictions (I admit, some are quite good... rather better than the canon books, tbh) and, though we both have Kindles, I keep any books she might read also on mine in case we're in a circumstance where only mine is available.
Suffice it to say, a fantastic reason to have an ebook reader is to have the ability to read (free) fan-fictions on a device which reads like a real book instead of getting eyestrain from staring at an LCD.
I think this is the oldest book I have. It's a bit rough aroud the edges but in good nick and you can feel that it got good use over the years. There's Roman Numerals on the bottom of the title page that I clipped out by whoopsie 'MCMXXX' (1930).
No dinosaurs though
Definitely, i'd love to see that.
There's a big library close by that's full of these proper old manuscripts for all sorts of stuff and Jonathan Swift's first edition copy of Gulliver Travels, I should peep in and have a nosey some day
Anyway, that book is awesome. Even more awesome is the fact it pre-dates the printing press too, so someone spent days writing that thing out.
*edit* wikipedia is very misleading for dates. Why show a picture with bold writing saying it's a printing press from 1811, when the actual date was 1462?! I guess I should've read more carefully. Or remembered my history lessons.