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A review by finnwilliams
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
3.0
Aside from all the insensitive parts (sexism, racism, xenophobia and probably other bad things) there is something fun and charming about the whole plot; which kept me reading and enjoying this short book.
Passporteut and Fix were the characters I preferred to read, seeing Fix's conviction waiver and his growing uncomfortableness with job was interesting. And Passporteut's insane individual escapades were great, a bumbling and loyal servant on a globe trotting adventure is a lot of fun for me; him leaving Shanghai, his dynamic with Fix and his activities in Japan to name a few moments.
Fogg I never liked, his stoicism never really crumbles into an interesting driving force for the adventure. The obvious fact that he wasn't a bank robber took something away from him that I thought (early on) would be a part of the story. Coupling this with him solving every problem with money and not much else and I didn't find him to be the great man all the other characters see him as. Also he deducted the gas costs from Passporteut at the end, what a d***head.
Oldest book I have ever read, I think, and for that I did find it interesting; but again very offensive by modern standards.
Passporteut and Fix were the characters I preferred to read, seeing Fix's conviction waiver and his growing uncomfortableness with job was interesting. And Passporteut's insane individual escapades were great, a bumbling and loyal servant on a globe trotting adventure is a lot of fun for me; him leaving Shanghai, his dynamic with Fix and his activities in Japan to name a few moments.
Fogg I never liked, his stoicism never really crumbles into an interesting driving force for the adventure. The obvious fact that he wasn't a bank robber took something away from him that I thought (early on) would be a part of the story. Coupling this with him solving every problem with money and not much else and I didn't find him to be the great man all the other characters see him as. Also he deducted the gas costs from Passporteut at the end, what a d***head.
Oldest book I have ever read, I think, and for that I did find it interesting; but again very offensive by modern standards.