04-09-2004, 08:08 PM | #1 |
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Writings of Jules Verne
What do people think of the writings of Jules Verne?
i have just finished reading Journey to the centre of the Earth, and i think it is a brilliant book. what does everyone else think? |
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I have four of his books...havent read any of them yet...
Journey to the centre of the earth Around the world in 80 days mysterious island michael strogoff
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I like the books of Jules Verne. I've read his stories ever since I was first fascinated by the mysterious Captain Nemo as a little girl. The one I like best still is "20.000 Leagues Under the Sea", probably because of nostalgia.
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The only one I've got is 20 000 leagues under the sea. And it's pretty good.
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I read 'The Children of Captain Grante' - I think that's the name of the book. I read it in Hebrew, translated from French ('Les enfants du Captaine Grante'). It was awful. It was really bad, and boring. Perhaps it's only this book - but I didn't try another book that he wrote.
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i recommend: Around the World in 80 Days, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth two of his best, in my opinion. |
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From the Earth to the Moon is another great book by Verne... it is interesting from an early scifi perspective, but is also just a good adventure story
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I dunno- his ideas are great, and the adventure is good, but his writing style is pretty bad, especially if you compare it to H.G. Wells
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I particularly like 20 000 leagues under the sea I remember reading it in bed at night, when I should have been asleep. It wasn't easy getting the book under my pillow fast enough when my mum came to check on me.
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I almost started the exact same thread under a different name. I'm reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea right now, but Journey to the Center of the Earth is my favorite of his books, and probably my favorite movie.
Edit: What happened to you? It seems like you fell off the face of the earth . Were you taken as free prisoners in a submarine, or did you reach the center of the Earth yet? Send me a postcard from Atlantis and the Saknussem ocean .
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So I want to know, are there other people underground, apart from the explorers, in the book 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' or aren't there?
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Darn, I don't remember any of that.... just a spring and a large sea... I think this calls for a re-read.
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You can't have forgotten the gigantic "spiral staircase," and the Hans River which flowed down the center of it for around a hundred miles of so (now that's one long waterfall ), and still continued downward ? Or is that the spring you mentioned?
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I read Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. I liked them all, but I thought Around the World in Eighty Days was really good. Out of the ones I've read it's my favorite. I didn't like Journey to the Center of the Earth as much though, I'm not sure why. I liked the movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea but it wasn't as good as the book.
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On another note, this thread takes me way back. I read the 'Illustrated Classics Edition' series way back in... kindergarten, I think. Wow.
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I just saw a really old movie of 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'. Was major fun. And no inhabitants or lush forests down there, only giant mushrooms, a lost city of Atlantis and a batallion of lizard-y monsters. They were nicely done, but not really by the book, as far as I remember the book anyway.
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I've recently read Michael Strogoff and The Mysterious Island. Michael Strogoff was good, but I thought The Mysterious Island was great! And I was only allowed to read two chapters a day , so it drove me crazy.
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