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Primordia

In Search of the Lost World

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Primordia

By: Greig Beck
Narrated by: Sean Mangan
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 Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author, Arthur Conan Doyle and his great, great grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908. Amazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long extinct creatures. As Ben digs some more he finds clues to the whereabouts of a lost notebook that might contain a map to a place that is home to creatures that would rewrite everything known about history, biology and evolution. But other parties now know about the notebook, and will do anything to obtain it. For Ben and his friends, it becomes a race against time and against ruthless rivals. In the remotest corners of the Venezuela, along winding river trails known only to lost tribes, and through near impenetrable jungle, Ben and his novice team find a forbidden place more terrifying and dangerous than anything they could ever have imagined.©2017 Greig Beck (P)2018 Bolinda Publishing Adventure Science Fiction Fiction Suspenseful

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There's no way to be polite about this: In the opening chapters the narrator sounded drunk! He was slurred and dismal and sounded like an old man. I nearly gave up.

Once the story got going either I got into it enough to overlook the narrator, or he got caught up in the story.

This was a fun adventure, much like the books I read as a young adult. it did occur to me that it would make an entertaining movie.

Slurring narrator nearly ended it for me

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Had read the novels earlier and wanted to hear it on audible, was not disappointed, excellent series, pure escapism

Fantasy Fact

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while mildly interesting, this is just a rewrite/rip off of the lost world. narrations was bad. would have been better if it had a proper narrator who knew how to use a varied pitch and pace to his voice , nothing worse then listening to a narrator who has a monotones approach to the story in question.

a rip off of the lost world.

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What a great idea? Arthur Conan-Doyle's famous Lost World being based on real events and be there for one of his descendants to re-discover. I really liked the sound of that, old clues, jungle adventures, deadly dinosaurs, what could possibly go wrong with all that?

Unfortunately while the idea was good the execution felt pretty average to me. I feel sure that Beck's writing has been much better in the past. The characters felt very two-dimensional and the make up of the team of friends very convenient. The action part of the plot when it did finally arrive just felt like a queue of things that the author had researched being inflicted one after the other on the characters. . The dialogue was lacking with a flippant, youthful approach which remained untroubled by death and disaster.

In addition, Sean Mangan, while he has a lovely rumble of a speaking voice doesn't have much in the way of character voice or dramatic effect to his performance. All put together it leads to a vague sense of the artificial permeating everything giving little that could immerse the listener in the grand adventure that the book promised.

It's not the worst audiobook you can buy by any stretch but to me this feels like the author invented an excellent opportunity for himself but didn't quite manage to make the best of it, particularly with this audio production.

Subprime Ordinary

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this story kept me on the edge of my seat, I am glad I did not live in that age

on edge

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If you like seeing (hearing) rag tag bunches of assorted characters slowly being picked off one by one by an assortment of creepy crawlys and beasty bastard, then you'll love this story.

It's got everything, Rugged men, lovely ladies, old cockroaches, rusty planes, large fronds, small D energy, adventurous Great Granddaddy's, big bot flies and a mean mercenary who should really know better.

I'm a man of simple tastes, and I must say, my appetite was sufficiently satiated for the duration of this listen. This ain't you granny's "Lost World", but it is your teenage sons "Lost World", because he (unlike her) can get behind the idea of someone being eaten alive by.......well, you get the picture, no spoilers here.

Move Over Jurassic Park...

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Good read but doesn't quite match up to other books by the author. However, it's still a good listen. l

Good read

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This is a great adventure book. I enjoyed the story, although it was quite predictable. That said, I find that sometimes it is nice to get a good old adventure book where you can just relax and listen. My only little moan is the narration is just a little bland.

Great 'Boys own adventure'

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What if the lost world is real but only accessible for a few days every ten years. When Ben finds his Great Grandfathers expedition diary it starts him and his naive friends of a journey of wonder and horror. The story is inventive and very well written, although the characters are a little thin and the villains a bit of a cliche once they arrive at the plateau the story becomes a tense rollercoaster of shocks and tragedy, where everything a lethal .and humans are just prey no matter how many guns they have. I will definitely be reading more of these books. The narration is perfect for the story. I received a complimentary copy of the audiobook and am leaving a honest voluntary review

Really entertaining and tense

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Gripping story, well read and kept me entertained to the very end. Now I've got to wait for part 2.

Excellent story well read

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