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Summary: Great Page Turner
Review: Around The World in Eighty Days is a book about Phileas Fogg making a 20,000 pound bet that he can make a jouney around the world in eighty days. It's a book filled with fascinating places and adventures that keeps you turning pages until it's finished.
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Summary: A Fun Journey
Review: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is the story of Phileas Fogg and his attempts to circle the globe in 80 days. In Verne's day going around the world in 80 days would have been an incredible feat. Fogg places a wager that he can accomplish his journey using all the best technology of the day, including locomotives, steam boats, and hot-air balloons.This is a Verne story that is more heavy on the adventure instead of the science. It's not quite in the realm of "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" in those terms; but, it is close. Fogg is an entertaining character that is as devilish as he is daring. It can really take you back to an era before instantaneous communications and jet travel when the world was not quite so small. Verne also gives a good account of the many civilizations that Fogg encounters on his journey. These are civilizations that have all but vanished from the earth with the colonial policies of 19th and 20th century powers that sought to homogenize the lands they conquered. Around the World is a good book for the Verne fan and a good place to start for the Verne newcomer.
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Summary: my book review
Review: Around the World in 80 days by: Scott The novel Around the World in 80 days is a mysterious masterpiece. It is a story that is filled with action and adventure as well as a lot of mystification. Around the World in 80 days has interesting characters that are weird in their own ways. The entire story has 80 different settings in 80 different places. The entire book is based upon a 20,000 pound wager for a bet. The book takes place in in the year 1872. This book is so fascinating that it will keep you turning pages for hours and hours of action filled enjoyment. I recommend this book to everyone who is an action and adventure lover, then you would love this book.
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Summary: A book to be shared around the World!
Review: This classic book is astonishing in it's in depth look of a grand aventure aruond the world in 80 days.It is a must read and once you start, you cannot put it down!I loved this book, ecspecially the ending and I recommend it to everyone, even kids.I find it a great starter for the world of books! :)
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Summary: Great book!
Review: Very entertaining, interesting, and easy to read... great for kids and grown ups! (I know -- I read it as a kid, and as a grown up, and loved it both times)
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Summary: MUST READ!!
Review: This is simply the best book I have ever read. It's also a fun way to learn geography! From San Fransisco, California to Allahabad, India, follow the adventures of the tranquil, exact, phlegmatic, and laconic Phileas Fogg as, for a bet, he heads around the world in eighty days with his manservant Passapartout. On the way, he rescues the wife of a dead Rajah from an untimely cremation, is pursued by a detective who thinks he is a robber, bribes the crew of the ship Henrietta to mutiny, and still manages never to show emotion! It's a really fun book with adventure, romance, humor, and much more! A must read!
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Summary: A great adventure in space and time.
Review: This is Verne's classic story of the trip of Phileas Fogg (who is obsessed with time), Passeportout, Aouda, and Detective Fix around the world on a wager. The book is filled with beautiful time and space imagery throughout (I would bet that one could write an entire thesis on all the time and space references in the novel). Thirty-three years after its publication, the world first learns of the space/time continuum (although I'm certain Verne was not anticipating Einstein). Fogg bets his fellow club members that he can circumnavigate the globe in a mere eighty days. He leaves immediately with his valet Passeportout and is pursued by Detective Fix, who thinks he is a bank robber. Through many adventures, including the rescue of Aouda from immolation, they all return to London. Interestingly, a few years later, after a number of improvements had been made in railways and roads, a U.S. journalist named Nellie Bly (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane) decided to attempt to break Fogg's "record." Leaving New York on November 14, 1889, she was able to circumnavigate the globe in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds. But, she didn't rescue a Hindu princess! It should be noted, however, that one has to be very careful concerning the translations of this novel. There are some terrible ones being sold. Perhaps that's the reason for the few poor comments by earlier reviewers. There is an excellent translation by William Butcher that appeared in 1995.
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Summary: One of the Greatest and Most thrilling Books Ever!!!!!!
Review: I liked the book Around the World in 80 days. Once I sarted reading I could'nt stop. Phileas Fogg was never in one place for too long so it motivated me to read more and more. I wanted to read more and more because I wanted to find out if he reached his destination and win the bet. I recomment it to everyone. It is a faccinating book
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Summary: Cheerfully inoffensive more than anything else
Review: Everyone knows the story - which just shows what a great story it is, and how much of an opportunity Jules Verne let slip. He wasn't a good writer. His prose doesn't sparkle (okay - maybe it does in French), the suspense is never really suspenseful, and one gets little of the flavour of the parts of the world that Fogg passes through. I was told before reading this book that he tends to have national caricatures rather than characters: even so, I was unprepared for the reality. All that can be said in his defense is that he isn't afraid to make his French characters as cartoony as the rest. I enjoyed this book, but only while reading it.
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Summary: Interesting World Travel, Adventure is Great
Review: Phileas Fogg is a great main character. Verne shows his once great abilities in this great novel. If you want adventure, read this book. Good surprise ending.
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