Mark Smith is a wonderful reader with a beautiful voice and cadence with perfectly timed expressive stresses and tone. Thank you sincerely for recording this great work.
Conan Doyle is a genius writer. He created a lot of interesting, exciting, brilliant masterpieces. I loved reading his stories translated into Russian when I was a child, and I enjoy listening and reading them now when I am trying to improve my English.
@Sans Handlebars, thanks a lot! It’s so pleasant and so inspiring to read your message! You’ve made my day! I can write not complex sentences, but my speaking skills, my speaking speed in the first place, are still very far from my ideal. I’m going to start a channel on RUclips to improve my speaking skills, and your comment has inspired me to do that as quickly as possible.
I read the book when I was 12 or so (in my sixties now). I had no idea how funny it was. Conan Doyle has given full rein to a sense of humour and justifiable criticism of journalists in a way that one doesnt encounter in the Sherlock Holmes stories. The humour crops up in Challengers both brilliand and also vain character and the comparison with the Chieftain, and also with the upshot of the affair with Gladys. The tale and characters, so far, are much livelier than the more plodding plots and less colourful characters of Jules Verne, at least in translation. I love hearing Jules Verne on audiobooks and his stories have more science. Being a few decades earlier, for the writer and reader, the scientific knowledge was more novel and fascinating, and it is marvelous to experience the level of scientific knowledge back then. Thanks for posting this.
Have always enjoyed movies based on this novel but this is the first audio version I have listened to of it. Really worth the time to hear it! Such a remarkable and inventive story. Made it so plausible. Thanks for sharing!
A beautiful complex work of fiction. Written in a time and place different from our own. It shows the time it was written in which one day may be as important. History can repeat its self it’s up to us to learn what not to repeat
Well read and a great story, thank you for taking time out of your life to read this as I have adhd and can’t read a page without being distracted. ON TO THE NEXT!
That... was awesome! : D A very very humorous and smart story, that I could well imagine as a (retro) anime of back 40 years ago. In that ghibli-ish style. I really enjoyed listening to it.
Tom I’ll take British accents over some incomprehensible American accents most of the time. For instance Greg Wayland is one of the best British narrators of all things Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Although this is certainly a memorable reading of The Lost World.
@@cha5, funny that you mentioned Greg, I was just checking out Magpie audio to see if he had this, alas he doesn't, but I did leave a suggestion in the community page.
@@browngirlinaclownworld2077 Well I'll be, seems there wasn't any kind of Ceratopsian in the book, that's my bad, I could have sworn the group encountered a Styracosaurus at one point or another, maybe I was thinking of King Kong, love Kong.
@5:25min The first thought that popped into my mind about Ned was "Loser!" "Being put into the friend zone" and so deftly he never knew what happened until she was reveling in their platonic relationship!
What such amazing reading with good pronunciation!By the way, there're Russian youtubers who've made the videos using the translated text of the book.At least, one of them uploaded a video in which music and different voices were used.I 'll be glad if you do the same thing.
A great story and a much more believable scenario than the wackadoo premise of Journey to the Center of the Earth, though I respect that story as the progenitor to the great 'prehistoric adventure' genre.
" ...a dark, swarthy, dried up person, of an uncertain age..." What an articulate, descriptive , powerful visual! " ...the stool of penance..." What an interesting writer; reminds me of Lucy Montgomery just not so flowery and prosaic. Old school writers with a grasp of language that commands our imagination's attention. "You swam up unto my serious notice's attention..." Thank you for a great production, very well prepared and presented. Thanks. Mario SirSirReal Villarreal " an Indian tribe with the mental acumen not much better than that of the average Londoner." (Sic) No he didn't! LOL
Is there a movie about this book? I feel like I saw it when I was a kid but I can't recall much about it. It had lizard people in an underground cavern and I believe there were dinosaurs as well. It was similar to Land of the Lost but I don't think it was. probably made around 2000ish.
@@ayaansuratiya4316 That sounds scary as fuck. I think the show I was thinking of was the OG early 2000's "The Lost World" Tv series. It had creepy 2000's cgi and the dinosaur men just freaked me out.
Not 100% sure it’s the same time frame but I think that during the age of dinosaurs there was a lot more oxygen in the air which helped creatures grow so large, this applies even more so to insects and also applies to plants, so super huge trees might make more sense.
@@manueldejesusrojassandi3919 And because of how laughably sexist and unrealistic it is. If all the characters are like this I may pass this one over. When I read it as a kid I'm pretty sure I just skipped to the dinosaur parts haha!
@@KFrost-fx7dt I mean, it just impacted me and I found it interesting. The rest of the book is fine. Although I think you can also note the racist connotation the book has reflecting on the time where it was written.
Thanks for Sharing .... Well I am struggling to understand the Language/Wording (do not know what word describes .... Bla ble bla I Shall, uhh whatnots to whatfors, Thus ..... Who uses that Word 😏✌ Beyond my Brain damaged Brain 🤫🤨🦖🦕 Read the book ... ? 50 years ago
The failing of the modern mind. Unable to enjoy the blissful experience of words. Instead rushing to the bare bones point and losing all meaning and value. unneeded stress by a phantom clock that does not exist.
@@theredknight9314 No, it's not that. I love classics. This just felt like a Steven King novel were he wastes an entire chapter talking about an ice cream truck for no reason.
@@theredknight9314 ohhh, so you're not modern? I'm in my 40s, grew up in the farm lands, walk barefoot everywhere I can and want nothing to do with anything ""modern" if I can hit the woods. So please do explain.
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*"You seem very anxious to lose your life...*
*To justify my life, Sir."*
Perfect.
Mark Smith is a wonderful reader with a beautiful voice and cadence with perfectly timed expressive stresses and tone.
Thank you sincerely for recording this great work.
Yes. This was beautifully read - thank you, Mr. Smith. I was delightfully surprised and grateful that it was your voice throughout.
This is I think my 6th Mark Smith audiobook in a row. He does a quality job
Mark Smith , thank you.
Conan Doyle is a genius writer. He created a lot of interesting, exciting, brilliant masterpieces. I loved reading his stories translated into Russian when I was a child, and I enjoy listening and reading them now when I am trying to improve my English.
@Sans Handlebars, thanks a lot! It’s so pleasant and so inspiring to read your message! You’ve made my day!
I can write not complex sentences, but my speaking skills, my speaking speed in the first place, are still very far from my ideal. I’m going to start a channel on RUclips to improve my speaking skills, and your comment has inspired me to do that as quickly as possible.
I suspect the humour came through even in the Russian translation!
@@granthurlburt4062, of course! No wonder it is said that well-translated foreign literature becomes the property of domestic literature.
What a soothing calm voice, just the perfect narrator for this story.
yeah smooth. Put me to sleep
I had am abridged version on cassette when I was a kid, read by James mason.
@@agentolshki4265 He had such a great voice! Very distinctive and polished.
I finally got around to finishing it with the help of this fine reader. I can't wait to finish the rest of the series.
I just discovered this … there’s more !?
@kazi2277 There's three more. The Land of Mist being bigger than the rest, and The Disintegration Machine being a short story.
@@ryangreen6255 just finished it and I’m ready for more thank you for the info !
@kazi2277 Glad I could help. Also, 2000 Leagues under the Sea is part of a Captain Nemo series, though I haven't started that series yet
@@ryangreen6255 so how does the order go ?
The lost world
Land of the mist
The short story ??
This is a masterpiece of literature. It was a pleasure going through this book especially with this exceptional narration. Thank you!
I read the book when I was 12 or so (in my sixties now). I had no idea how funny it was. Conan Doyle has given full rein to a sense of humour and justifiable criticism of journalists in a way that one doesnt encounter in the Sherlock Holmes stories. The humour crops up in Challengers both brilliand and also vain character and the comparison with the Chieftain, and also with the upshot of the affair with Gladys. The tale and characters, so far, are much livelier than the more plodding plots and less colourful characters of Jules Verne, at least in translation. I love hearing Jules Verne on audiobooks and his stories have more science. Being a few decades earlier, for the writer and reader, the scientific knowledge was more novel and fascinating, and it is marvelous to experience the level of scientific knowledge back then. Thanks for posting this.
I grew up with the television show, this is my first time deciding to listen to this book.
Have always enjoyed movies based on this novel but this is the first audio version I have listened to of it. Really worth the time to hear it! Such a remarkable and inventive story. Made it so plausible. Thanks for sharing!
Nice narrator, very pleasant to listen to.
Better than "nice".... More like excellent!!!!
A beautiful complex work of fiction. Written in a time and place different from our own. It shows the time it was written in which one day may be as important. History can repeat its self it’s up to us to learn what not to repeat
00:00 chapter 1
14:55 chapter 2
31:45 chapter 3
49:03 chapter 4
1:27:00 chapter 5
1:57:55 chapter 6
2:20:42 chapter 7
2:44:27 chapter 8
3:15:24 chapter 9
4:07:42 chapter 10
4:40:19 chapter 11
5:17:40 chapter 12
5:54:30 chapter 13
6:29:04 chapter 14
7:40:00 chapter 16
Well read and a great story, thank you for taking time out of your life to read this as I have adhd and can’t read a page without being distracted. ON TO THE NEXT!
excellent reading! You really brought the characters to life. Wonderful job
I can listen to this every year, like Pride and Prejudice it never gets old.
Ooow i dearly loved it, thank you very much for uploading!
Fantastic storytelling, Great voice. Thank you for taking the time to voice this book.
That... was awesome! : D
A very very humorous and smart story, that I could well imagine as a (retro) anime of back 40 years ago. In that ghibli-ish style. I really enjoyed listening to it.
Omg I was thinking the exact same thing!
A fascinating and unusual story; read by a real professional, who could adapt his voice to each character.
You mean to say that he gives each dinosaur a different voice? Wow.
😂
Man. I heard about this book. But i didn’t realize that the first section to literally be about a guy getting friend zoned 💀
Sorry I am English, don't understand a word.
@13:48
I have this on audio cassette read by James Mason. It is abridged, so it's only two hours long on two tapes. Too cool.
Whats abrigaded
@@nickgarcia3319 means it's shortened
@@nickgarcia3319 unless you mean what parts were abridged. I'm also curious
Thank you for the read!
Most excellent reading. Thank you
Terrific! Most enjoyable presentation.
Fantastic! My cordial gratitude to the narrator!!
One of the better narrators from libravox well done Mark👏🏼👏🏼
I agree. I'm sick of British accents in audiobook narration.
Tom I’ll take British accents over some incomprehensible American accents most of the time. For instance Greg Wayland is one of the best British narrators of all things Arthur Conan Doyle’s
Sherlock Holmes stories.
Although this is certainly a memorable reading of The Lost World.
@@cha5, funny that you mentioned Greg, I was just checking out Magpie audio to see if he had this, alas he doesn't, but I did leave a suggestion in the community page.
Wonderfully read, thank you.
The greatest book of all time written by the greatest writer to ever have graced this lovely planet of ours.
My all-time favorite novel.
@@alanfoster6589 Same here.
Amazing! Cheers from Edinburgh ✌️
I brought this book on May 2024 tysm ❤️had a such great time reading the book and amazing voice 💅💅❤️
4:40:31 bookmark 🦕🦖
❤ great narrator
I like how you choose a image with all the Dinosaurs described in the book
Very true and very well observed on your part
@@granthurlburt4062 thank you
I don't recall mention of a Styracosaurus. But a lot were vaguely described so I might have missed it.
@@browngirlinaclownworld2077 Let me research that, I will update,
@@browngirlinaclownworld2077 Well I'll be, seems there wasn't any kind of Ceratopsian in the book, that's my bad, I could have sworn the group encountered a Styracosaurus at one point or another, maybe I was thinking of King Kong, love Kong.
Thanks ❤
Really nice rendition! I'm working on this one too and I must say your version is very well done!
49:16 Chapter 4 bookmark
1:58:04 Chapter 6 bookmark
@5:25min The first thought that popped into my mind about Ned was
"Loser!" "Being put into the friend zone" and so deftly he never knew what
happened until she was reveling in their platonic relationship!
If a woman jumps through that many hoops to avoid a relationship with a man, chances are she thinks he’s dangerous
7:02:14 bookmark🦕🦖
An excellent read
The original jurassic park 👌
The title of JP's sequel is a nod to this.
Bookmark 2:28:23
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That was great, thanks.
Amazing.
God I wish there was a sequel.. "Return To Maple White Land"
Thank you Mark Smith
Nice voice, audio is so meditative. Shld hve made a movie, really adventurous story.
There may be more than one film.
very nice reading, thank you
What such amazing reading with good pronunciation!By the way, there're Russian youtubers who've made the videos using the translated text of the book.At least, one of them uploaded a video in which music and different voices were used.I 'll be glad if you do the same thing.
7:24:00 bookmark
53:29 bookmark
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A great story and a much more believable scenario than the wackadoo premise of Journey to the Center of the Earth, though I respect that story as the progenitor to the great 'prehistoric adventure' genre.
Outstanding. SAM from S.C.
Read this yesterday, the audio,
5:39:18 ....I ran so far away, I ran all night and day.
I couldn’t get away
😂
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when do the dinos come in?
Niceee Likeee THE LOST WORLD
Can you hear that high pitched sound in the background too? :(
wow wow
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" ...a dark, swarthy, dried up person, of an uncertain age..." What an articulate, descriptive , powerful visual! " ...the stool of penance..."
What an interesting writer; reminds me of Lucy Montgomery just not so flowery and prosaic. Old school writers with a grasp of language that commands our imagination's attention. "You swam up unto my serious notice's attention..." Thank you for a great production, very well prepared and presented. Thanks. Mario SirSirReal Villarreal " an Indian tribe with the mental acumen not much better than that of the average Londoner." (Sic) No he didn't! LOL
The way Lord John speaks is hilarious wot.
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SPOILER: The last few chapters are very exciting and emotionally sad
Is there a movie about this book? I feel like I saw it when I was a kid but I can't recall much about it. It had lizard people in an underground cavern and I believe there were dinosaurs as well. It was similar to Land of the Lost but I don't think it was. probably made around 2000ish.
There is a movie called The Lost World but it's older than 2000.
I think its the one with Will Ferrell but I’m pretty sure that’s land of the lost
I remember some of the scenes to be somewhat disturbing in their realism. The film I saw was somewhat modern.
*The midnight meat train* had underground lizard like creatures but no dinosaurs
@@ayaansuratiya4316 That sounds scary as fuck. I think the show I was thinking of was the OG early 2000's "The Lost World" Tv series. It had creepy 2000's cgi and the dinosaur men just freaked me out.
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EITHER THOSE TREES ARE INSANELY HUGE, OR THOSE DINOS ARE WAY OUT OF SCALE XD
Trees are big
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Not 100% sure it’s the same time frame but I think that during the age of dinosaurs there was a lot more oxygen in the air which helped creatures grow so large, this applies even more so to insects and also applies to plants, so super huge trees might make more sense.
They did also refer to redwoods in the story if I'm not mistaken
@@Meichrob7 that was the carboniferous era,with giant insect life.
If Mark Smith is a narrating , I am a listening.
Why does it keep repeating chapter 6?
Is T. rex Dinosaurs in this book ?
no
sorry
bitch
Basically kong skull island, sorta
Kinda the inspiration to it.
@@ryangreen6255The 1925 film adaption of The Lost World directly inspired the original 1933 King Kong.
There’s a high pitched noise behind the reader’s voice
If I was in the right mood right now I would be enjoying this right now. But I don't mean to be mean or any thing...
DINOSAURS!!!!!!!! :D
What the hell is this intro? Ew! I don't remember this being an erotic novel.
6 minutes in and I am stunned. Not because of what is happening, but rather because I didn't expect it.
@@manueldejesusrojassandi3919 And because of how laughably sexist and unrealistic it is. If all the characters are like this I may pass this one over. When I read it as a kid I'm pretty sure I just skipped to the dinosaur parts haha!
@@KFrost-fx7dt I mean, it just impacted me and I found it interesting. The rest of the book is fine. Although I think you can also note the racist connotation the book has reflecting on the time where it was written.
@@KFrost-fx7dt Seems to me you still are a kid, at least mentally.
@@manueldejesusrojassandi3919 I heard a truly great piece of literary fiction; you merely found 'isms'. Sad.
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The Scottish accent isn't good at all!
Edinburgh is pronounced Edin-burro.
Thanks for Sharing .... Well I am struggling to understand the Language/Wording (do not know what word describes .... Bla ble bla I Shall, uhh whatnots to whatfors, Thus ..... Who uses that Word 😏✌
Beyond my Brain damaged Brain
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Read the book ... ? 50 years ago
Warning, based af.
"Round headed,grey eyed,black haired, with suggestion of a negroid....Celtic I presume?" Love old books. Good times.
Great narrator, but his impression of the Scottish accent sounds Eastern European.
What's up with the noise in the background? Very distracting.
Ape man?
Tull
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Beautiful book wonderful reading too bad he didn't get the girl in the end
bruh what the fuck is this
edit: 10 mins in and i realized this isn't the lost world
Yeah, it's the real lost world.
Yes. It is. The original. Maybe you're expecting the Michael Crichton Jurassic Park one.
A better version of this was made 3 years earlier.
this woman is sick
american narrator. unfortunate.
Arthur Conan Doyle ? Really?!
I tried.... But couldn't. I hate books with useless verbage. Your reading is good though.
The failing of the modern mind.
Unable to enjoy the blissful experience of words. Instead rushing to the bare bones point and losing all meaning and value.
unneeded stress by a phantom clock that does not exist.
@@theredknight9314 No, it's not that. I love classics. This just felt like a Steven King novel were he wastes an entire chapter talking about an ice cream truck for no reason.
@@snakeinthegrak8969 eh no. Its proven modern people have a smaller attention span
@@theredknight9314 ohhh, so you're not modern? I'm in my 40s, grew up in the farm lands, walk barefoot everywhere I can and want nothing to do with anything ""modern" if I can hit the woods. So please do explain.
@@theredknight9314 more like "modern" people don't have the spine to take criticism. AKA, you.