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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Around the World in Eighty Days is the book for people who finished Dracula and thought to themselves "Man, I wish less time had been spent on plot so that more could be dedicated to the timetables of trains and boats."
Which... doesn't really sell it
Around the World in Eighty Days is the story of Phileas Fogg, a character with all the confidence of a white male written by a white man in the 1870s. Even when things don't go his way they will still end up going his way
And at this point it's probably fair to ask if I even enjoyed the book
Around the World in Eighty Days is about the incredibly autistic Phileas Fogg and his menagerie of travel companions who, one by one, appear to fall deeply in love with him (there's Passepartout, who was always warm towards his employer bit begins to fall over India; Fix, who in the United States gives up simply chasing Fogg as a criminal and finds it "difficult to analyse the thoughts which struggled within him"; and Aouda, who's life, like Passepartout's, was saved by Fogg, and falls somewhere around China). It was a lot of fun
.
Which... doesn't really sell it
Around the World in Eighty Days is the story of Phileas Fogg, a character with all the confidence of a white male written by a white man in the 1870s. Even when things don't go his way they will still end up going his way
And at this point it's probably fair to ask if I even enjoyed the book
Around the World in Eighty Days is about the incredibly autistic Phileas Fogg and his menagerie of travel companions who, one by one, appear to fall deeply in love with him (there's Passepartout, who was always warm towards his employer bit begins to fall over India; Fix, who in the United States gives up simply chasing Fogg as a criminal and finds it "difficult to analyse the thoughts which struggled within him"; and Aouda, who's life, like Passepartout's, was saved by Fogg, and falls somewhere around China). It was a lot of fun
.
"Why, you are a man of heart!"
"Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when I have the time."
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Minor: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Classism
This is the 2nd classic I’ve read so far this year and I liked it better than the 1st, which was “Treasure Island”. I was very surprised at how much I’m enjoying these classics.
I really enjoyed this little adventure and the characters were all very colorful and intriguing. Given the time period in which this book was published, Verne did an amazing job with details throughout the story in all aspects: characters, setting and plot. And I loved how he wrote the very last sentence of the book. It really makes you think.
I’m giving it 4.5 stars as there were a few times I felt a little bit of slow burning throughout. Also, at least in the edition I have, I was excited to read about something that was displayed on the book cover that turned out to not be in the book, which was a little disappointing but it’s not a big deal, just a minor nitpick. The story was still excellent. I do recommend this to anyone who wants to read a really good classic and/or adventure tale.
I really enjoyed this little adventure and the characters were all very colorful and intriguing. Given the time period in which this book was published, Verne did an amazing job with details throughout the story in all aspects: characters, setting and plot. And I loved how he wrote the very last sentence of the book. It really makes you think.
I’m giving it 4.5 stars as there were a few times I felt a little bit of slow burning throughout. Also, at least in the edition I have, I was excited to read about something that was displayed on the book cover that turned out to not be in the book, which was a little disappointing but it’s not a big deal, just a minor nitpick. The story was still excellent. I do recommend this to anyone who wants to read a really good classic and/or adventure tale.
I have been interested in reading this book ever since finishing "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World". Unfortunately, the original was a disappointment. Not only because all Tantor media productions are so low-level and such poor audio quality, but also because the character about whom all the fuss is made, Fogg, is hardly a character at all. Repeatedly he is called "mathematical" and "mechanical", and so he is. But also, when he takes charge of some action, he leaves the narrative completely. Truly, this story belongs to every character but Fogg, as the narrative is never told from his perspective, but from several other characters', and he often leaves the reader completely. It's not even that great an adventure - the whole of the trip between Liverpool and Calcutta is omitted, e.g. and many adventures are included which aren't interesting, e.g. the riot in San Francisco.
I can't say I'm unhappy I listened to it, but it is not the great adventures of a great man it is frequently purported to be.
I can't say I'm unhappy I listened to it, but it is not the great adventures of a great man it is frequently purported to be.
*2.5 les idées colonialistes et en particulier le racisme dans ce livre sont insupportables. l'histoire en général est assez intéressante et intriguante (mais il me semble aussi que j'ai déja lu ce livre plusieurs fois).
le racisme est vraiment incroyable... les anglais sont loués de mettre fin aux coutûmes des indous qu'on portrait comme barbarie, le plus blanche la peau des indous le plus de respect on a pour eux, on parle des 'races' rares indous plus intélligents que les autres (mais surtout pas aussi intélligents que les blancs), les anglais sont décrits comme des dieux et leur culture comme parfaite. j'aimais bien l'humour au début, un peu similaire à sherlock holmes et je me rendais compte qu'il me semblait que je lis un livre anglais à cause du ton et du sujet. mais maintenant c'est juste tellement désagreable et fâchant de lire...
de plus, je n'aime pas l'idée que le stoicisme de fogg définit l'homme idéale, au contraire, c'est toxique.
le racisme est vraiment incroyable... les anglais sont loués de mettre fin aux coutûmes des indous qu'on portrait comme barbarie, le plus blanche la peau des indous le plus de respect on a pour eux, on parle des 'races' rares indous plus intélligents que les autres (mais surtout pas aussi intélligents que les blancs), les anglais sont décrits comme des dieux et leur culture comme parfaite. j'aimais bien l'humour au début, un peu similaire à sherlock holmes et je me rendais compte qu'il me semblait que je lis un livre anglais à cause du ton et du sujet. mais maintenant c'est juste tellement désagreable et fâchant de lire...
de plus, je n'aime pas l'idée que le stoicisme de fogg définit l'homme idéale, au contraire, c'est toxique.