What an adventure! King Solomon's Mines definitely proved to be a different kind of dramatic narrative that is built upon high-stakes adventure. But the writing — that's where the story seemed to lose much of its forceful delivery. A lot of times the writing just felt stale and sorta like it drew out the details too much. Since this is a plot-driven story, the characters are flat and don't feature much development; but for this story's purpose — providing readers with an exciting plot — the lack of character development doesn't hamper the story very much. Taking everything into consideration, I still certainly enjoyed the general delivery of this classic piece of literature.