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nathanjhunt 's review for:
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
fast-paced
Loveable characters:
Complicated
This was my 136th book finished in 2025.
This was my second exposure to Verne, and I was just so... Underwhelmed! So I read Michael Palin's book of the same name before this, and it's definitely more fun. Obviously you can't really compare them, but I just expected a bit more from the original.
I suppose it's a snapshot of the world in the 1870s, but it's just terribly dated now.
Verne is very bad at writing likeable characters. Fogg is a pompous ass, honestly. The end was kind of sweet, I'll admit.
This was my second exposure to Verne, and I was just so... Underwhelmed! So I read Michael Palin's book of the same name before this, and it's definitely more fun. Obviously you can't really compare them, but I just expected a bit more from the original.
I suppose it's a snapshot of the world in the 1870s, but it's just terribly dated now.
Verne is very bad at writing likeable characters. Fogg is a pompous ass, honestly. The end was kind of sweet, I'll admit.