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Summary: a thrilling classic!
Review: Phineas Fogg wager a bet at his club that he can travel the world in 80 days, arriving back at the club by 12 noon on the 80th day. In the days before airplanes, this is quite a venture, but Fogg sets out with his manservant Passeportout to accomplish it. Along the way, through their adventures, the party expands with others they meet, including Ms. Aouda, a lady they rescue in India.The imagery is fantastic as they describe the wonderful places they go to, and the adventures hysterical, some due to cultural ignorance, as when Passeportout takes off his slippers in a Buddhist temple much to the wrath of the Buddhists. You'll start planning your own 80-day journey after you read this tale!
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Summary: Great adventure, great writing.
Review: From the introduction of the hero, Phileas Fogg, to the lovely ending, I consider this book one of my favorites. I read this book every 2 years or so and each time it succeeds in taking me to interesting places and people.
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Summary: Around the World in 80 Days
Review: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The classic Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, is a story about a wealthy man by the name of Phileas Fogg who bet s half his fortune that he could tour the world in 80 days (it's 1872!). With his servant, Passepartout, Fogg embarks on a journey against time and an adventure he'll never forget, to accomplish some thing never done before.
The characters are very interesting. I liked Passepartout because he kept messing up and doing things wrong. I dislike Fix because he seemed like trying to stall Fogg. The theme is that "Hard work leads to great achievements." What liked most was when Passepartout gets in trouble with three Hindu priests while in India. I didn't really like it when they were in Japan, though. I was satisfied with the ending because Fogg gets a big surprise in the end.
The book can keep you interested for a while. It tells you all you need to know. The vocabulary is difficult though because some of it's French. I dislike how some of it is French. I think the age should be ages 10 and up for some mild language. I recommend this book for people who like adventure. I give this book **** for being a little slow in some areas.
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Summary: Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Review: The book stars out by describing Mr.Fogg. Then Passepartout takes the place as his servent because the other had broughten his shaving water too cold. Fogg decides to travel around the world in 80 days or less after his friends bring up the conversation. He brings his newly hired servant w/him. Before they leave there has been a robbery discovered @ the bank. The first days are smooth riding, then a detective,Fix comes to the conclusion that Fogg is the culprit. He befriends Passepartout to find out info. on Fogg. They encounter many difficulties including broken tracks and herds. They mustcut aross India where they pick up an Indian Lady named Aouda. They also must buy ships too, because they are late. They @ one time purchase an elephant. They get attacked by Siox indians which causes Passepartout to get lost, which slows them down. They rush back to England only to find that they were 5 mins. late or were they? Verne's moral? Love and its' attaintment is more important then all the challenges and money in the world.
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Summary: Enjoyable but not enthralling
Review: For some reason, I always envisioned a hot air balloon when I thought of Around the World in Eighty Days; in point of fact, a hot air balloon is about the only means of transportation not employed by Phileas Fogg in his circumnavigational sojourn (though it is given a fleeting thought by the hero at one point). Fogg is an interesting character, a man who takes punctuality to an unheard of degree. Basically, his whist partners at the Reform Club tell him there is no way to go around the globe in just 80 days, notwithstanding the fact that a detailed itinerary involving specific boats and trains promises to make it possible. Fogg immediately bets half his fortune that he can do it, setting out on his journey that very night. Passepartout, his newly hired manservant, finds himself dragged along on this historic journey. It so happens that someone matching a description of Fogg has just robbed the Bank of England of 55,000 pounds, and a detective named Fix "discovers" his robber when Fogg arrives in Suez. He wires England with the news and asks for an arrest warrant to be issued; before it arrives, Fogg is off again. Fix finds himself joining in on Fogg's epic journey, waiting for the warrant to reach him on his way, then waiting to arrest Fogg when he steps back on English soil. The travelers face many perils and stumbling blocks along their way, many brought about by Passeportout's naivete and later on by his selfless act of heroism. At every turn, Fogg finds himself in need of alternate transportation methods; he employs, among other vehicles, an elephant, a bridge-jumping train, and a wind-propelled sled. A series of uncommon adventures unfold, involving damsels in distress, Indian attacks, matters of honor, etc. All these events come to a climax the day on which he is due back at the Reform Club. There is not really much science in this fiction; instead, there is a good bit of geography; the stretches of text explaining the route from one place to another is rather boring to me personally. Luckily, most of the book is full of action. Throughout, the interesting Mr. Fogg remains as calm and placid as a cucumber while Passepartout provides some comic relief by continually finding himself in some sort of trouble. Most of the actors come across as rather wooden and artificial, but the story is good and the ending is quite satisfactory. The reading of this book led me to conjecture that this was one of Verne's earlier works because the characters here are rather drab compared to those in From the Earth to the Moon and because the pages are not weighed down by scientific terminology as in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; actually, it is one of his later novels. Around the World in Eighty Days would well serve the purpose of introducing a Verne newbie to his writing. If you want to see glimpses of Verne's prophetic scientific ideas, though, this is probably not the book for you; it is best suited for recreational reading.
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Summary: The Right Stuff, 19th Century Style
Review: I decided to read "Around the World in Eighty Days" after encountering an essay about Jules Verne's deep interest and belief in science as an almost God-like vehicle to carry mankind into a brave new world. I then decided to see how this work fit into this theme of Verne's world view. I found a story which, to the reader of Verne's day, may have seemed as inspiring as the tales of astronauts to contemporary readers. Without giving too much away, "Around the World" is an improbable tale of Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman who carries his regularity to the extreme of eccentricity. After engaging a new servant, the Frenchman, Passepartout, Fogg engages his fellows at the Reform Club in a discussion over the possibility of the completion of an around the world journey. Immediately, Fogg engages in a bet that he can circumnavigate the globe in an eighty day period. Collecting Passepartout, they set off that very night on a journey which will take them, truly, around the world. Verne's writing was driven, in large degree, by a desire to promote the public acceptance and advancement of science among the French people. In his journey of 1874, Fogg employs many types of conveyance, from the most primitive to the most technologically advanced of the day. Verne uses this novel to contrast the industrial might of the United States with the traditional cultural mores of India. We can only try to imagine how this novel would have affected the reader of 1874. To a modern reader, the book is a light, fast moving novel with a stimulating thread of suspense and just a touch of romance. What little character development takes place is dwarfed by the demonstration of technological wonder which is depicted throughout the journey. We do, however, come to know a little about the main characters. We see Fogg as an eccentric, phlegmatic Englishman, seemingly single-mindedly devoted to achieving his goal of circumnavigation of the globe within the prescribed period. When Fogg does abandon his single-minded drive it is sidetracked and overwhelmed by his innate senses of honor and duty, almost leading to grave consequences. Passepartout comes across as a fairly simple-minded servant whose sole purpose in life is the faithful service of his master. Add in a beautiful damsel and a determined but feckless detective and we have the makings of a most entertaining read with a most unpredictable hero.
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Summary: Easy but a little boring...
Review: I am 15 and I have to read this version of "Around The World in 80 Days." The plot is a good idea but the book is a little boring. It is easy reading but it doesn't have too many climatic moments so far (I'm on chapter 13). I would reccomend this book only to people who have a lot of patience and like to read classics.
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Summary: Around the World in 80 Days
Review: The book that i am reading is Around the World in 80 Days.I did not really enjoy reading this book.I did not like this book because it had to many parts to it.
This book was mainly about a group of people who wanted to explore the whole world.They explored many new things in the world. The setting of this book is in the past.This was one reason it made the book a little bit more creative. This is one reason I did not like this book.
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Summary: Around the World in Eighty Days J.D.S
Review: It started with a bet that changed everything. It starts as long journey that had twists and turns that were exciting and had danger in each one. It was about a two hundred thousand pounds that started in 1873 in London with some of the Reform Club members. They bet that they could get back around the world in eighty days. The story starts out slow and gets better during the book. Like when they get attacked by a Indian group and Passepartout can't be found. It is pretty good after getting into Egpyt. They go from London to France to Suez to Calcutta to Bombay to Hong Kong to Singapora to Yokahama to San Francisco to Fort Kentucky to Chicago to New York to Liverpool to London. They do things in these places that sometimes aren't smart to do. They are in a rush to get around the world so they barly have time in these places. Will they get there in time or lose the bet to the Reform Club members?
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Summary: The Eighty Days of going Around the World
Review: It was a long journey that had twists and turns that were exciting and fun. It was about a bet that started in 1873 in London. They bet that they could get back around the world in eighty days. It starts out slow and gets better during the book. Like when they get attacked by a Indian group. It is pretty good after geting started.
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