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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
it’s easy for me to condemn the inaccurate and often offensive way that POC are depicted in this book from my vantage point in history
and so condemn i shall!
jesus christ this was the worst classical book i’ve read in a WHILE. this just felt like praise of the british empire. initially this was about a funky little rich man who was gonna go on a road trip and then it devolved into a white savior complex typa thing. (the white savior complex ESPECIALLY showed itself in the rescue of aouda)
the pacing of the story was off, and it was oftentimes just downright racist.
i was seriously considering DNF-ing this book but I was about halfway through so i decided to power through.
this only gets two stars because there were some interactions (particularly those with passepartout) that were genuinely funny to me, but that’s overshadowed by the sheer amount of garbage in this.
so there. i do have another physical copy of a jules verne book (20,000 leagues under the sea) so hopefully that one’s less horrible than this was.
i don’t typically write long reviews, so you can imagine the rage this book has incited in me <3
and so condemn i shall!
jesus christ this was the worst classical book i’ve read in a WHILE. this just felt like praise of the british empire. initially this was about a funky little rich man who was gonna go on a road trip and then it devolved into a white savior complex typa thing. (the white savior complex ESPECIALLY showed itself in the rescue of aouda)
the pacing of the story was off, and it was oftentimes just downright racist.
i was seriously considering DNF-ing this book but I was about halfway through so i decided to power through.
this only gets two stars because there were some interactions (particularly those with passepartout) that were genuinely funny to me, but that’s overshadowed by the sheer amount of garbage in this.
so there. i do have another physical copy of a jules verne book (20,000 leagues under the sea) so hopefully that one’s less horrible than this was.
i don’t typically write long reviews, so you can imagine the rage this book has incited in me <3