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A review by linneak2002
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
4.0
I loved this book! I was never super interested in this story, but I watched the new BBC Masterpiece mini series starring David Tennant, and that made me want to read the book. While there are very major differences between the book and that adaptation, I loved both.
I love how everytime there is a set back Phileas Fogg just takes it as a natural course of nature, and says he had already taken that into his calculations, and yet, he still forgot about the international date line. All the adventures that happened on his journey were very fun and enjoyable to read about.
Reading this at the same time as The Hobbit made me see similarities that I wouldn't have otherwise seen. The main character in both is very English, and does everything that is expected of them, and never anything that isn't.... until, of course, they do.
I love how everytime there is a set back Phileas Fogg just takes it as a natural course of nature, and says he had already taken that into his calculations, and yet, he still forgot about the international date line. All the adventures that happened on his journey were very fun and enjoyable to read about.
Reading this at the same time as The Hobbit made me see similarities that I wouldn't have otherwise seen. The main character in both is very English, and does everything that is expected of them, and never anything that isn't.... until, of course, they do.