Sorry dudes, I give this one a thumb down.
Relatively boring story full of attitudes and manners that are objectionable to a modern and enlightened mind. Some parts are fun, and I guess I can see why this is a classic, but if you are a reader who chooses his material based on my recommendations, as I will be from now on, I’d give this one a pass.
Read The Lost World (Doyle) instead, if you’re in the mood for this kind of thing.
First Encounter:
“King Solomon’s Mines” was a nonsense phrase that I’d heard a few times in my youth. Eventually I learned it was the name of a Blues Club but presumed it also referred to something more famous given the contexts I’d vaguely remembered hearing the phrase in. Sometime between childhood and 2017, when I read this book, but probably closer to 2017, I learned that this was a book, “The Most Amazing Book Ever Written,” by some accounts, and the title was a literal reference to Mines, specifically those of King Solomon.
Recommendations to Myself 