Around the World in Eighty Days
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Ein Klassiker, der einen auf eine abenteuerliche Reise mitnimmt. Natürlich muss man bedenken, zu welcher Zeit das Buch geschrieben wurde, aber meiner Ansicht nach lässt es sich auch inhaltlich heute noch gut lesen. Einfach ein nicht zu detaillierter Abenteuerroman, der auch für jüngere geeignet ist. Mich hat er gut unterhalten und ich habe bis zuletzt mitgefiebert.
This might just be one of the most fast-paced classics I have read so far. Considering how much happens during such a comparatively short book length of about 250 pages, it's no surprise that Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days was a huge success upon its release in the form of serial installments. The plot faces considerable progress during every chapter, often culminating on a cliffhanger, so it is easy to imagine that readerships during the 1870s were thrilled to learn how this story was going to continue. Obviously, almost 150 years afterwards, some of the initial thrill of Jules Verne's adventure story has been lost simply due to the timeframe we live in. It isn't quite as extraordinary and seemingly difficult anymore to travel around the globe, and some of the cultural depictions feel strangely inappropriate from our modern point of view (although it should be said that the exhausting 1956 film adaptation of the story, which for some obscure reason managed to win Best Picture, was even more guilty of delivering culturally insensitive representations). So, Verne's story really works best once you try to emphasize with the mindset of the people who must have been reading this in 1872. A sense of adventure and thrill drives the story along, something that hasn't ever quite been done before and that would have sounded so inachievable if not for some logistical changes in the world throughout the most recent years - to follow these adventures, to capture the novel's spirit of achieving something that might be deemed impossible or ridiculous by those more averse to risking something now and then to achieve your dreams. Verne's story also has some worthy messages, including the depiciton of Phileas Fogg's ambitions - the value of the entire voyage does not lie in the financial compensation that awaited him, but rather in the thrill and excitement of actually having conquered this seemingly inachievable bet, of having done something to be proud of for the rest of his life. It's a fun and entertaining read that has deservedly turned into a classic of the adventure genre.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Ein Klassiker, der einen auf eine abenteuerliche Reise mitnimmt. Natürlich muss man bedenken, zu welcher Zeit das Buch geschrieben wurde, aber meiner Ansicht nach lässt es sich auch inhaltlich heute noch gut lesen. Einfach ein nicht zu detaillierter Abenteuerroman, der auch für jüngere geeignet ist. Mich hat er gut unterhalten und ich habe bis zuletzt mitgefiebert.
This might just be one of the most fast-paced classics I have read so far. Considering how much happens during such a comparatively short book length of about 250 pages, it's no surprise that Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days was a huge success upon its release in the form of serial installments. The plot faces considerable progress during every chapter, often culminating on a cliffhanger, so it is easy to imagine that readerships during the 1870s were thrilled to learn how this story was going to continue. Obviously, almost 150 years afterwards, some of the initial thrill of Jules Verne's adventure story has been lost simply due to the timeframe we live in. It isn't quite as extraordinary and seemingly difficult anymore to travel around the globe, and some of the cultural depictions feel strangely inappropriate from our modern point of view (although it should be said that the exhausting 1956 film adaptation of the story, which for some obscure reason managed to win Best Picture, was even more guilty of delivering culturally insensitive representations). So, Verne's story really works best once you try to emphasize with the mindset of the people who must have been reading this in 1872. A sense of adventure and thrill drives the story along, something that hasn't ever quite been done before and that would have sounded so inachievable if not for some logistical changes in the world throughout the most recent years - to follow these adventures, to capture the novel's spirit of achieving something that might be deemed impossible or ridiculous by those more averse to risking something now and then to achieve your dreams. Verne's story also has some worthy messages, including the depiciton of Phileas Fogg's ambitions - the value of the entire voyage does not lie in the financial compensation that awaited him, but rather in the thrill and excitement of actually having conquered this seemingly inachievable bet, of having done something to be proud of for the rest of his life. It's a fun and entertaining read that has deservedly turned into a classic of the adventure genre.