A review by wickedcestus
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

I love the way Verne gets his stories going so rapidly, and then immediately loses himself in the technical ephemera of whatever topic he is dealing with. In the same way that 20,000 Leagues is mostly descriptions of aquatic creatures that the main character observes through a window, this book is concerned primarily with the technical problems that accompany firing a projectile into space. But this is not to say that the book gets bogged down, because there are enough looney characters and funny discussions littered throughout to keep the book entertaining.