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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Spoiler: he makes it.
This book is on Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die," and for the life of me I don't know why. It's a light, almost madcap, shallow adventure story/armchair travelogue for 19th-century Europeans who wanted to read about India and the U.S.
I can see wanting Verne on the list; he's the father of science fiction. This book ISN'T SCIENCE FICTION. Besides, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is also on the list.
It's not amazingly good; it's probably a better movie than a book. Didn't the movie have a balloon?
It didn't stretch the boundaries of what a novel was.
Why am I even going on like this? Why do I care? Does anybody take that list seriously? I don't, and yet I can't let it go.
Well, if you feel like you have time to read 1000 of 1001 Books, but not the 1001st, let me save you some time on the last book: HE MAKES IT BECAUSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE, and for the last three weeks of his trip he didn't realize it, because NOBODY EVER MENTIONED WHAT DAY IT WAS.
This book is on Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die," and for the life of me I don't know why. It's a light, almost madcap, shallow adventure story/armchair travelogue for 19th-century Europeans who wanted to read about India and the U.S.
I can see wanting Verne on the list; he's the father of science fiction. This book ISN'T SCIENCE FICTION. Besides, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is also on the list.
It's not amazingly good; it's probably a better movie than a book. Didn't the movie have a balloon?
It didn't stretch the boundaries of what a novel was.
Why am I even going on like this? Why do I care? Does anybody take that list seriously? I don't, and yet I can't let it go.
Well, if you feel like you have time to read 1000 of 1001 Books, but not the 1001st, let me save you some time on the last book: HE MAKES IT BECAUSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE, and for the last three weeks of his trip he didn't realize it, because NOBODY EVER MENTIONED WHAT DAY IT WAS.