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The Lost Continent
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A classic "lost race" story, with all of the required elements: a seductive empress, a straight-arrow hero, battles, escapes, sorcery, and earth-shattering cataclysms! Eminently readable and very entertaining, without any profundity to distract a fan of Haggard, Aubrey, or Janvier-style fantasy literature.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Writing style not at all readable to me so abandoning it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Pretty silly novel of Atlantis, culminating in the great flood. The point of view character is Deucalion, a famous flood survivor in the Greek tradition. This could be an example of how a great deal of fantasy will date itself by its plots and interests. But not a good trashy book! originally published in 1900.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One in a while, you come across an older book that blows your mind. You wonder where it has been and why you’ve never met it before. I found this to be the case with this book. Deucalion returns from Yucatan to find things have changed in Atlantis. No longer the prospering city he knew, it is now under the Empress Phorenice who plans on taking him as a husband. Deucalion however has just fallen in love with Nais. Phorenice has Nais buried alive and Deucalion is forced to try to save Atlantis from Phorenice. The plot sounds plain, but the writing is very good. My one complaint is we never find how Phorenice obtains her knowledge.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A reprint of a novel published around 1900, this is the story of Deucalion, the governor of Yucatan province. He is suddenly recalled home, back to Atlantis, by Phorenice, the new Empress. She turns his arrival into a grand ceremony, parading him through the city, and back to her palace, on top of a live mammoth.Having been away from Atlantis for twenty years, Deucalion is disgusted by the conditions in its capital. Everywhere is filth, and poverty of record-setting levels. Unburied dead bodies litter the streets. Outside the city walls are thousands of destitute people clamoring to get in. Phorenice’s attitude is: the rich (mainly Phorenice) get richer, and everyone else fends for themselves. Phorenice makes it known to all that she is the daughter of a god, and expects to be treated as such, even though she is actually the daughter of a swineherd. Anyone who says no to Phorenice, about anything, can expect to die very unpleasantly, so Deucalion and the people of Atlantis are forced to go along.Deucalion saves a woman named Nais from being eaten by tigers. He is betrothed to Phorenice, and does not dare to say no, but he falls for Nais. The Empress gets very jealous toward Nais, and has her buried alive between two huge blocks of stone. Deucalion slips her a drug, known only to the Priests Clan, of which Deucalion is a senior member, that puts Nais into suspended animation.Deucalion has seen enough, and gets a ride with a boatful of people planning to start over on a faraway island, away from Phorenice. He suddenly has second thoughts, and asks to be let off on the other side of Atlantis, a land of deep swamps, impassable forests and hideous beasts. It takes months, but Deucalion makes it back to the capital. Phorenice, who is now to be worshipped as a god, has learned that Nais is not really dead, and is not happy. Then comes the final battle between Phorenice and the Priests Clan, just before the "real" gods make it clear that their patience is gone.This is a gem of a story. Atlantis is certainly a popular setting for fantasy stories; this is one of the better stories ever written. It has just a little bit of weird in it, and is very much worth reading.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5After reading Peter Hart’s The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War, I thought it might be fun to read a science fiction novel that touches on the war, indeed was written during the war and even before America entered it.Now, I’m not a Burroughs fan. I find him way too dependent on coincidence. And the plot is hardly surprising – Pan-American naval officer accidentally crosses the forbidden Latitude 30 W, meets a barbarian queen in Britain, instantly falls in love with her after rescuing her from some baddies, gets separated from her, and, after some whopping coincidences and a whirlwind tying up of plot threads, is reunited with her. But it is also usually unappreciated how politically topical and even satirical Burroughs could be on occasion. Here, amidst the adventure, are wry bits of satire on what the consequences of the Great War could be for European civilization and white imperialism. And, just maybe, there’s also a swipe on the sanctimonious of the Wilson Administration on the brink of WWI.Burroughs’s fans, of course, will want to read this. And those interested in cultural responses to the war might want to take a quick look at this one too.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Early Burroughs adventure, 122 pages in my Ace Edition (with Frazetta cover). The continent of Europe loses contact with America for 200 years after WWI. Additionally, US ships are are forbidden to cross to the continent. A ship accidentally enters this forbidden zone and finds a ravaged world with zoo animals overrunning the cities. It has the typical Burroughs tropes, hero's hero, gorgeous women, romantic mixups, some racial content of the times and the final reconciliation. Unfortunately, Burroughs rushes through the last 2 chapters. It was aone-shot novella for a magazine issue. More chapters, even more books could have been written of the further adventures that are only hinted at while they attempt to return home.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5To be perfectly honest, I borrowed this book because I was trying to figure out how to add library books to my Kobo and it was available at the time. I really had no desire to read it. However it was only 100 pages and I was home sick so I gave it a quick read.The year is 2137, apparently after or during the great war, the United States cut themselves off from Europe. No one was allowed past the 30 longitudinal line. United States is now called Pan-America and its Navy patrols the Atlantic to enforce this rule. Due to a series of accidents on board his ship a Navy Commander finds himself East of this line and eventually on the continent once known as Europe. There he discovers a strange and savage land.This was a quick read, very entertaining. I enjoyed it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A short adventure novel in which Burroughs imagines a post World War 1 Europe segregated from the American continent for over two hundred years, which has become a wild and inhospitable place. Interesting from the perspective of being written prior to America's entry into the war. The book starts well with the interest maintained into the final third when it begins to feel like the Author just wants to get to the end as quickly as possible. That said, anyone who enjoys Burroughs more famous stories will probably enjoy this one as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An decent book, but not very deep. The beginning of the story is pretty strong, the middle is alright, but the ending just seems rushed. I would have liked another chapter to better explain Turck's journey home as well as some of the other things that were glazed over in the last 2 pages.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Burroughs puts us in the 23rd century. Pan-America is thriving from the Aretic Cicle down to the tip of south america and no one goes beyond 30 degrees llngitude to the east or 140 degrees to the west. our protagonist does, however, when he is forced to go east from the winds of a fierce typhoon. he lands in england and finds pre-historic conditions, comp-0lete with lions, tigeersd, and elephants (oh my). needless to say, he falls in love with a native girl, a barbarian heathen girl-child named Victory (Vitoria?) who tgurns out to be the Queen of Grabraw (Great Britain). Hey, I could not dream up these things.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a good easy read that I was able to knock off in one afternoon. I like the concept of the story, but in hindsight Edgar Rice Burroughs missed an excellent opportunity for a deep & thought provoking story. It seems that this book was targeting the teenage demographic as he spends too much of the book fighting lions and elephants.
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