i think sir arthur conan doyle is classy. if he is still alive, i would like to stalker him. like really stalk him and paste his pictures to cover my walls.

why? because his classy. i'm repeating myself. ouh gosh! that is not good.

i managed to get myself The Lost World from this writer. i read his sherlock holmes series. in fact, i have the whole compilation that i know i haven't finish reading but it is certainly delightful to see him manage to keep the humour.

in this book, we travel with Professor Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee and Edward Malone to venture into the land where dinasours still live. No, it was not time travelling but Challenger gathered these people to go into some part of South America and witness the existence of the prehistoric animals.

Challenger went to the said place in the previous two years before reaching London and being ridiculed by the science community due to his far-fetched ideas. hence, he gathered the company with Summerlee, whos is the chief in ridiculing Challenger's ideas at the time. Not known as someone who has a calm nerves, it was not difficult for Challenger to get into the bad books of everyone else.

the story was told in such a way that i can really picture myself being in the plateau full of boiling asphalt, facing the great iguanadons and also witnessing the cruel 'jumping-off-the-cliff' game of the ape-man. everything that happened; be it the shooting of one of their slaves, the nightwalk edward malone took, the war between the indians and ape-man, each and everyone of it kind of stuck in my mind. like it was literally a journey.

reading the book was definitely a joy. added with the sarcasm and dry humour of all the characters, i kind of agree that this book must be read before dwelling into jurassic park.