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Summary: Journey Around the World in 80 Days not so exciting
Review: ¡§We are going round the world...in eighty days so we haven¡¦t a moment to lose.¡¨ Mr. Phileas Fogg tells his confused servant, Jean Passepartout. In Around the World in 80 Days,ƒnJules Verne tells of travel and exploration, which he hoped would capture the attention of the mid-1800s society, who happened to have a growing interest in science. To do so, Verne uses a variety of literary techniques and elements. Although he does this very well, overall, the bad factors outweigh the good in this book.
Phileas Fogg, a wealthy, punctual perfectionist, makes a bet with some of his rich buddies: 20 thousand pounds that he can make a trip around the world in 80 days. Sounds easy with today¡¦s technology-but in 1972, it was highly improbable, if not impossible! Fogg leaves London promptly, taking only his servant, some money, and a carpetbag with him. Will he make it around the world and back to London in time? Or will he be slowed down along the way, causing him to lose his fortune?
The setting, which is London 1872, is essential in making this story work. If it had not taken place in this time period, the story would be pointless. Say, for example, it were to take place in this day and age. With the technology now available, 80 days is more than enough time to visit tourist attractions in some of the famous cities of the world: New York, London, Paris, Cairo, Beijing, Hong Kong, and even Tokyo. However, in 1872, because transportation was much slower, it would have been very difficult to make this trip in this amount of time.
The characterization in this piece impacts the events, the plot, and of course, the audience¡¦s perception of the characters and their actions tremendously. Phileas Fogg has a habit of keeping the same routine, day in and day out, down to the exact minute. His tendency of being so timely allows Fogg to stay right on schedule, and even see where problems may occur in the future so he can allow extra time for such hold-ups. Passepartout, Fogg¡¦s French servant, is very loyal and holds true to this throughout the book. This loyalty ensures that he sticks with Fogg through the entire trip, danger or no danger.
The plot, while very drawn-out and uneventful most of the time, does have occasional moments of action. The book has a rescue scene, as well as a love story. These rare interest-grabbers allow the reader to acquire quick glimpses of the characters¡¦ attributes and emotions.
Although the language style does suit the books time period and setting, it is not likely to be appealing to modern society. It is not very realistic to true human speech, in the sense that it is too precise for everyday conversation for an average person. An example would be ¡§Those who were honored by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else.¡¨ This type of language, even though it is clearly stated, can become rather confusing and may distract from the rest of the book¡¦s components.
Jules Verne¡¦s Around the World in 80 Days contains little dialogue, and the reader never gets to hear the ¡§inside scoop¡¨ about what the characters are thinking and feeling, making it hard to get to know them. The majority of the book is either an overly-detailed explanation of the actions of the characters, an unimportant description or historical background of each new scene, or , concerning the scene, that do not affect the story at all. This book is perfect for those who enjoy classics such as those assigned to students in high school. Those who hate that type of book probably would not enjoy this book very much.
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Summary: Around the World in 80 days
Review: Around the world in 80 days is about an amazing journey that these four men take. These four men one day decide if its possible if they could go around the world. The four men set off to go on the journey and go through tons of things, like they get lost. They also face other difficulties like no water or food, and being stuck in a cave. After all these hard things they go through, the men are allmost around the world. I'm not going to tell you if they go around the world, because if you read the book you will find out. I recommend this book to anyone who likes andventure and excitement.
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Summary: A really fun adventure story
Review: Even though it's not one of his science fiction novels (which are wonderful), this is my favorite Jules Verne story. Phileas Fogg is absurdly calm in any situation, and Passepartout is the everyman who reacts to all the insane situations his boss gets into. Considering the narrow-minded time in which the book was written, I love the fact that Fogg winds up with a beautiful and intelligent Indian girlfriend. There are lots of short, episodic adventures each in a new exotic location, all told with a good sense of humor. The subplot about Fix the detective chasing Fogg helps hold the narrative together. And it's hillarious that Verne portrays the Americans as a bunch of daredevil screwballs. Loads of fun from cover to cover. Younger readers shouldn't have any trouble following it. This is one of my favorite adventure stories.
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Summary: a classic?
Review: This is my first Jules Verne book, and I must say that I'm disappointed. This is a "classic"? Everything is viewed from afar. Verne never let me feel as though I were right there. There is almost no dialogue, and even the action is related as though it were second-hand. Although I didn't expect it to be in Jane Austen's league, from its reputation I was hoping for something in the range of Stevenson, Tolkien, and Wells. It's not. This sort of storytelling is more of the Edgar Rice Burroughs or Stephen King variety.
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Summary: Passepartout stills the show!!
Review: Even though Phileas Fogg is the main character, the real star of the show and book is his French servant, Jean Passepartout! I started liking Passepartout when Eric Idle played him in a mini-series. Even though Passepartout can come off a bit of a show-off, arrogant, and a jerk from time to time(He's French and can't help it and doesn't mean to come off that way on purpose!!)
He is very resourceful, lovable, the comic relief, makes up for his bumbling and sometimes nosey ways with a heart and soul of gold and becomes an asset to Fogg in his help to go around the world and rescues the Princess Auoda and makes Fogg from being a cold as a fish, very private, quiet and withdrawn, and very un-human to becoming more human, sensitive, and not too concern with appearance, structure, or time. Fogg may be the star and the central character but Passepartout is my all-time favorite character and is really the star and is the heart and soul of "Around the World in 80 Days"!
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Summary: Around the World in 80days book review
Review: Around the World in 80 days, written by Jules Verne is a historical fiction book that takes place in the 1800s. What makes this story interesting is that it takes place on a voyae around the world. The main charecter, Phileas Fogg, is a mysterious,lonely man. With a big big fortune. He evn owns his own club! No one knows where or how he got the money, but Detective Fix does. Fix thinks Phalease fogg is guilty for robbing a bank, and heres why: On the same day the national bank was robbed Mr.Fogg bet have of his fortune that he could traval around the world in no longer than 80 days.Since no one knows where or how he got his fortune Fix thinks he's a robber and is skipping town. On that same day, Mr. Fogg hired a trusty, loyal man named Passpertrout.Passpertrout is a former gymnest from France, and wanted to try something new. mr. Fogg disided to take Passpertrout with him so he could have some help. On there voyage, they traveled on a hot air baloon, boats, a train, a locomotive, and evan a sledge! On there stop in India Passpertrout, and Mr.Fogg rescud a oung girl named Adua from her death. Passpertrout enters a religious temple waring his shoes and guets sent to coart. Also they are fallowed by the suspitios Detective Fix, and had to prove him rong. After all these exciting adventures they made it home earlier thatn 80 days, and Mr.Fogg married Adua. The reader will enjoy the vivid verbs and discriptive details that the auther used. If you like a story with lots of exciting adventures, and suspence, this is the story for you.
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Summary: 19th Century Adventure is too tame for today's readers
Review: Among the most realistic of Verne's "imaginary voyages", this novel describes how Phileas Fogg, a reclusive, eccentric, British bachelor, wagers some members of his club that he can travel completely around the globe in just eighty days, based on rail and steamer schedules available to this very punctual man. So off he goes, on what should have been a fun-filled, adventure-packed journey. Unfortunately, this precursor to the science fiction novel has not held up well over the years, and it's really a testimony to the ever-changing world that we live in that this was ever considered an adventure novel. Too often the action takes place "out of scene" and is only described after the fact, losing the story's intensity and immediacy. The characters are quite one-dimensional; Passepartout, the faithful French manservant, provides only the barest minimum of comic relief, and Aouda, the love interest, isn't much more successful. The real stars should have been the different cultures and modes of transport experienced by the travelers, but even these are often treated in a cursory fashion. Instead, the focus is on timetables and detours and the hapless Detective Fix, who believes that Fogg is wanted for robbery. It seems as though Verne had a clever idea for a short story (that is, he had the conclusion, or "hook", for a puzzle-type story), but needing a round-the-world tour to make it work, found himself writing a novel that he really had relatively little interest in. As a result, the story doesn't really heat up until the very end, and even there the final twist will not manage to surprise many contemporary readers. A very light entertainment, but no longer very impressive or imaginative in a world where astronauts orbit the globe in hours. This story might have seemed remarkable to those born before the days when commercial aviation made the world such a small place, but younger readers will probably find this book far too tame to suit their tastes.
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Summary: A bit boring
Review: I'll keep this short and sweet. I picked up this book with great expectations, hearing from various others about it's qaulity. Unfortunately, I was mostly dissapointed. This book, most definitly, has adventure and some very interesting parts, except they are few and far between. Verne is much too consumed with irrelevant details to the point of boredem and loss of attention span.
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Summary: Around The World In Eighty Days
Review: This book was pretty good. The main characters, Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepourt make a wager of twenty thousand pound that they can travel around the world in eighty days. Along the way, they have to travel as fast as they can while somehow they have some crazy adventures. Such as meeting a beautiful indian princess, they get arrested because they look like a thief that a detective has been looking for, and all sorts of crazy stuff. This book is really good for people who like adventure books but it is still good for anyone who likes to read
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Summary: 360 Degree Entertainment
Review: Finally, I got round to reading this, years after meaning to and having seen the both David Niven movie and Michael Palin's successful TV reenactment of Phileas Fogg's round the world trip. I was expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't. It's a very easy read, and an entertaining one - the tale is familiar, and some of the more fanciful descriptions of foreign climes now appear very quaint, but that didn't matter. I think that the success of Verne's story is founded upon the mix of good plot devices: the race against time; the exploration of mysterious countries; the chase (the detective Fix pursues Fogg from Egypt onwards); some comedy and a bit of love interest thrown in. It could be criticised as being outdated, but I found that part of its attraction - and I don't mind being entertained. G Rodgers
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