Dr. Strangelove
21st March 2005, 05:48 PM
This was the first book of Verne's that I read. I fell in love with the book, (even though it had the tiniest writing in the world) and it such a classic.
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is a novel about the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passerpartout. One day while Phileas Fogg is with some friends, he reads in a newspaper that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. No one believes this is true, except Phileas. Then Phileas bets them that he could make the journey in eighty or under days, and then leaves along with his servant immediately.
The thing Jules Verne concentrates most on during Around the World in Eighty Days is how precise Phileas Fogg is. In the beginning, Mr. Fogg fires his servant because the water he brought him to shave in was four degrees of the correct temperature. I thought this was quite comic. When Mr. Fogg hires Passerpartout, he instructs him exactly when to prepare breakfast, exactly how hot his water should be and many other silly things. When Phileas is talking to his friends after making his bet he told them exactly when he would return and exactly where he would be.
The great thing about this book is that he did it entirely without the help of any technology which is a rarity these days, and it's jsut great ufn reading about him visiting these far off palces, which now would be croded up by horrible noisy tourists. This book also made me want to read Journey to the centre of the earth, which is almost as good as 80 days!
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is a novel about the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passerpartout. One day while Phileas Fogg is with some friends, he reads in a newspaper that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. No one believes this is true, except Phileas. Then Phileas bets them that he could make the journey in eighty or under days, and then leaves along with his servant immediately.
The thing Jules Verne concentrates most on during Around the World in Eighty Days is how precise Phileas Fogg is. In the beginning, Mr. Fogg fires his servant because the water he brought him to shave in was four degrees of the correct temperature. I thought this was quite comic. When Mr. Fogg hires Passerpartout, he instructs him exactly when to prepare breakfast, exactly how hot his water should be and many other silly things. When Phileas is talking to his friends after making his bet he told them exactly when he would return and exactly where he would be.
The great thing about this book is that he did it entirely without the help of any technology which is a rarity these days, and it's jsut great ufn reading about him visiting these far off palces, which now would be croded up by horrible noisy tourists. This book also made me want to read Journey to the centre of the earth, which is almost as good as 80 days!