katie_is_dreaming 's review for:

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

4.0

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My first introduction to the story was a bit of an unusual one. When I was little, there was an animated version shown on TV, where all the characters were different types of cat, and Phileas Fogg was a lion named Willy Fogg. The story stayed with me, for the most part anyway, so I'm happy I could read the source material at last.

I enjoyed this. I liked Verne's writing and I liked the characters. Fogg is your typical phlegmatic English gentleman, for whom regularity is the order of the day. He comes across as cold and aloof, but there is a bit of warmth to him. I loved the 'Sometimes, when I have time' line. Passepartout and his blunders was a great character also.

I very much enjoyed the journey around the world. I could have wished the book a bit longer, so that we'd have more time to explore the places Verne took us and his characters to. I almost wish I didn't know the outcome of the story as well, because it would be such fun to have that suspense of not knowing if it turns out alright in the end.

I enjoyed this, and I'll read more by Verne. I'd love to see if I can find the animated version somewhere too, just to compare.