Well… So I do believe I saved a book’s life. About to be tossed away, being a pariah of the garage sale variety, I not only took it home; I …READ it. Aglow with endearing cliches, this is the source of plenty of adventure stories, many of which are films, comics, etc.
Verne’s imagination is grand & the plot is silly and almost kid-like. But absurd it ain’t. It is fun exactly because there is a topsy turvy madness to visiting places just to prove a point. It is fun because it is rife with interesting observations, factoids, themes that in Verne’s day were barely in development. There is romance, the plot is thick with well… things happening, a ticking clock looms a large shadow, and a velocity is masterfully established that seems almost incredibly doable–the reader wants to experience this. (Airplanes suck ass anyway!)
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