Talk:The World We Live In (Life magazine)

Tone
The tone of this article needs to be changed. It sounds like praise for the series, not a neutral encyclopedia article. I'll try later this week. I don't have access to The World We Live In, though. --Jpkotta 06:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Pics?
The tone has definitely improved, and the quotes help... Has anyone got scans or pictures or Life covers of the series? They would certainly spice up the page.

I still have a copy (in Dutch). It greatly influenced my views on the world when I was 10 years old and almost learned the book by heart. It is outdated in its views but most books are after 50 years. I disagree with the former comments because a neutral encyclopaedia article is not relevant for a book of this age and has to be valued in its timeframe and paradigmas. I can provide some pictures to lighten up the article.

The article is a valuable summary--but why on Earth wouldn't it include the actual dates when the various instalments appeared in Life? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.30.202.15 (talk) 17:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Written Word
I would not believe everything that Bob Bakker says. He seems to have always critical of the Dinosaur mural, which was, of course, painted in the 1950's and was accurate for the information Paleontologists had at the time. Sometimes I feel that Mr. Bakker is "out to get" this monumental piece of History. Perhaps Bob Bakker is trapped in his own realm of knowledge and can not recognize the Past as it occurred. I suppose he now wants someone to paint feathers on the mural, since this is a relatively new discovery!

Kristina Zallinger —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.204.123.2 (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Revamp
Gave this page a much-needed revamp and expansion. Still could use some more pics though - would low-res images from the Google Books Life archive work? Sphenacodon (talk) 20:46, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Companion series/book
A few years later Life ran a series titled "The Epic of Man". Again, Barnett was the author, and a few years after that there was a third series/book in the series that had a number of pages omitted in the binding of the book. It was called "The Wonders of Life on Earth" and was mainly based on Darwinian Theory. No author is listed in my copy which is one of the ones with pages missing, and no hint of the page ever having been in the book in the first place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.73.52.79 (talk) 02:16, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Me too
Like everyone else I was influenced in my teen-age years by this outstanding and unduplicated series. We can all agree on that. Now it is a classic. It looks pretty good at this point. The pictures never materialized for us. Apparently the main reason is that they still are under copyright, or were re-copyrighted. The main ones you would want to see are those of Chesley Bonestell. No way. Still in copyright. I am putting in some links to the original magazines on Google. I did find something I can use as an example. As to being out of date, well, it is not all that out of date. Some material never goes out of date, such as HG Wells and Will Durant.Botteville (talk) 13:24, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Proposed expansion of "Issues"
I'd like to propose an expansion of "issues" to include a 2-3-paragraph precis of the content of each episode. The current descriptions would remain. References would only be parenthetical page numbers to the issue of Life. The bullet would become a subsection, which would give us an outline in the TOC and provide easy access to the episode. I'm re-reading the whole thing, which is an opportunity to do the precis. Meanwhile I'm polishing up the links and toning down a few of the over-conclusions. Let me know what you think. If I start, there will be a period when the bullets have been converted to subsections but all the precis are not in. I will need your forbearance there.Botteville (talk) 16:44, 21 April 2019 (UTC)