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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
I loved it. I also adore the game by Inkle based on it, so I had that experience with me as I read, which only increased my enjoyment as it's so clear that the game is a real love-letter to the book.
This is a great book to read in short snippets as it was serialised, so has around 35 chapters which each come to a conclusion. I read it for 20 minutes each morning with breakfast for about a month.
The characters are interesting in that they're not written in a modern style, they're more described bluntly or in terms of their actions. There isn't a huge amount of dialogue where you really get a feel for them, especially Mrs Aouda.
However, it does have real, old-fashioned action and excitement - very much focused around men and brave deeds, but it was written in the 1870s so you can't blame it for being a product of its time (including some rather colonial opinions)
This is a great book to read in short snippets as it was serialised, so has around 35 chapters which each come to a conclusion. I read it for 20 minutes each morning with breakfast for about a month.
The characters are interesting in that they're not written in a modern style, they're more described bluntly or in terms of their actions. There isn't a huge amount of dialogue where you really get a feel for them, especially Mrs Aouda.
However, it does have real, old-fashioned action and excitement - very much focused around men and brave deeds, but it was written in the 1870s so you can't blame it for being a product of its time (including some rather colonial opinions)