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The Mysterious island was great, I remember reading one chapter a night (when I was supposed to sleep so it had to be done sneakily) when I was young. It was very exciting. And with a nice tie-in to another book at the end.
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Jules Verne is a classic author...unfortunately he can tend to get a little dry here and there...but he's still really good. Mysterious Island was really interesting, the way it shone light on Nemo.
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I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but most of the time I was anxious for him to clearly state what the plot was. I didn't notice any conflict in it. It seemed like 95% of the book was about the speaker hanging out in Nemo's sub. And then when it ended suddenly, and accidentally it seemed like, I was furious that I had wasted my time and wondered what made this a literary classic. Now, I think that was probably rash; it's just a different sort of story than I was used to. But since then I haven't gotten around to reading any of his others. Is Around the World in 80 Days very different? ie less dry?
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I don't think Around the World in 80 Days is very dry. The movie wasn't very good though.
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You also might have gotten a bad translation of it. There are a few of those.
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Jules Verne was the man that opened the way for most of what we know as Science Fiction. His writings led H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton and many others to write speculative fiction.
As to his novels, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" was a hard read for me. Haven't tried it again since I was about 14. "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" was my first 'Verne'; bought a copy of a hardbacked Omnibus when I was eleven (my first hardback book - I still have it!). The omnibus also contains "Around the World in Eighty Days", "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "From the Earth to the Moon". "The Mysterious Island" is probably my second favorite. However, my favorite 'Verne' (possibly my favorite read period) is . . . . . "Michael Strogoff"! A must read for anyone reading Jules Verne. No future visions, no technology, just a Courier of the Czar attempting to warn the Grand Duke in Irkutsk of a traitor as the Tartars hordes invade Siberia.
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Howdy, Trolls' bane. I've only been active for about a month.
As to Edgar Rice Burroughs, he wrote the "Tarzan" series, the "John Carter of Mars" books and "The Land that Time Forgot" as well as a number of other novels. P.S. GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!
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I read a lot of his books when I was 10 or so (in french of course) and I loved them.
I don't remember a lot of details of them, except from "Le tour du Monde en 80 jours", "20 000 lieux sous les mers", and a passage of "Michel Stroggof" has chocked me, I can't describe it, but I remember well because of the picture that was with it. |
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It's always interesting to see names of books in another language. Like Le Planet Le Singes. What's Micel Stroggof?
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Sounds like absolute Dune to me.
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I've been thinking about starting to read Verne in French. He seems lucid enough to pick up in the original language. I recently finished Around the World in Eighty Days in English, and decided to coast around Wikipedia afterwards (as I often do for hours on end).
I was very surprised to read this in the Jules Verne entry: Quote:
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Indeed curious. I can't help you as I read his books in yet another language and I don't know how that translation fits in. And I never had a head for maths anyway.
But I like the idea of reading his writings in French. I've been trying to find some good books to read and amend my French and I had not considered Jules Verne yet. Might be worth looking into, so thank you for the suggestion.
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