Lost Horizon : A Novel by James Hilton
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Book Reviews of Lost Horizon : A Novel
Book Review: Lost Fan gets insight from Lost Horizon
Summary: 4 Stars
I read this book because quite a few Lost fans believe the series is based on this book. I thought the book was a quick read and interesting. I could see the parallels with the series. I did get some insight but I also believe there are numerous references in the series to other story lines - like Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. If you are a Lost fan I recommend this book.Book Review: As an adventure the story falls miserably short!
Summary: 1 Stars
The hullabaloo surrounding the book will lead one to believe that this is an epitome of all adventure/suspense stories. In reality, the book is nothing but a wanderings of a disturbed mind, disillusioned with life and suffering from abnormalities of mind - so common among soldiers after attending a bloody war. Those readers who praise the book sky-high must have some ulterior motive in mind; otherwise this is a shoddy piece of work and written obviously with a film script in mind rather than a book, which anyways what Hilton was, scriptwriter in Hollywood! His other tiny book Goodbye Mr. Chips is a better read and doesn't pretend to be something else or is it we who label a book. No wonder Lost Horizon is out of print and should remain so. I don't blame the writer as much as the so-called critics, readers and other writers for whom the world begins in Western Europe and ends in North America. A very myopic view!Book Review: I just don't understand
Summary: 1 Stars
No, I don't at all understand how anyone can assign even the first star to this putative literary work. I invested a goodly fifty pages without noting the first scintilla of action or intrigue, although I did suffer through reference after reference to 1920s practices and customs at Oxford--couched in impenetrable Edwardian slang. I had absolutely no idea what was going on, other than that I was bored witless.