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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Penguin Popular Classics) Description
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780140621396
ISBN: 0140621393
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Book Pages: 256
Publication Date: 1994-10-27
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
EAN: 9780140621396
ISBN: 0140621393
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Book Pages: 256
Publication Date: 1994-10-27
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Editorial Review of Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Customer Reviews of Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Penguin Popular Classics)
Customer Rating: 
Review Summary: short but not sweet
Review: Axel Lindenbrock's uncle, Professor Otto Lindenbrock, has found a piece of paper written in Old Icelandic. Axel shortly manages to make sense of it, and it leads him and his uncle to Iceland to an extinct volcano called Sneffells. There, they go down into its crater with the help of an escort named Hans Bjelke, in hope to get to the centre of the earth! They will face hunger, thirst, and tiredness, but odd Professor Lindenbrock will not give up until he is at the earth's core...or until he is dead!
This is not the whole story but only a shortened version that takes only about 40 minutes to read if you do not want to read the whole story or you want to tell a friend about the book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great book, Wrong description!
Review: The book is fantastic, and if a real review is wanted, then read one of the other ones. I'm just here to say that the book is not hardcover as it states in the product description, and is one of those crappy recycled green covers!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Deserved classic- science fiction with character
Review: As well as being the gripping high-adventure story that other reviewers have written about, when I re-read this novel recently I was struck by another side to the story that I hadn't noticed before- it reads, especially at the beginning of the book, as a satire. Verne is not content with helping to invent science fiction in terms of the science- some of which is consciously out-of-date even as Verne writes it, as he explains away science facts such as why inside the Earth's core is not flesh-meltingly hot in a manner not dissimilar to those bits of Star Trek where they tell you how the teleport works. In addition to the science, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth has character. Verne invents in this story the very concept of the mad scientist, in this case Professor Lidenbrock, who struggles to teach coherently at a German university and who is sent on a wild goose chase to Iceland because of one scrap of paper found in a library book. The interplay between our narrator Axel, his mad professor uncle and the reliable but non-verbal Icelandic guide Hans has things to say about the self-importance of science as well as about class and social standing. The science of this book is horrendously flawed but I believe it's the strength of character as well as Verne's fantastically imagined underground worlds that makes this novel not an out-dated joke but deservedly a classic.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: 4 stars
Review: Verne captures real drama and human response in this fictitious masterpiece.It's a book for those who like the somewhat sureal adventure story. The plot thickens as the book progresses and i've read it twice in very different circumstances leading me to give it 4 stars. Firstly i read it one summer holiday in one big reading session as i really couldn't put it down, it was magic. The second time i read it on the bus on the way to work and found that having to read it on and off i didn't enjoyit nearly as much and found it hard to get back into. Not a book to read on and off from night to night in bed even but great if you've got a few hours to kill and you want to make the very mos of them.great book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Believable adventure
Review: An excellent and very easily readable adventure. As most novels from that era it is actually very realistic (to me it is more believable than aliens landing etc.)and left me feeling that if I followed the descriptions of the journey, I could have the same adventure. Almost like a travelog.The language is easy, the characters colourful and the events intrigueing so that you want to - and are able to - read it in one go.
Stick with the penguin translation: I had a quick look at others and they didn't seem as good
Review Summary: short but not sweet
Review: Axel Lindenbrock's uncle, Professor Otto Lindenbrock, has found a piece of paper written in Old Icelandic. Axel shortly manages to make sense of it, and it leads him and his uncle to Iceland to an extinct volcano called Sneffells. There, they go down into its crater with the help of an escort named Hans Bjelke, in hope to get to the centre of the earth! They will face hunger, thirst, and tiredness, but odd Professor Lindenbrock will not give up until he is at the earth's core...or until he is dead!
This is not the whole story but only a shortened version that takes only about 40 minutes to read if you do not want to read the whole story or you want to tell a friend about the book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Great book, Wrong description!
Review: The book is fantastic, and if a real review is wanted, then read one of the other ones. I'm just here to say that the book is not hardcover as it states in the product description, and is one of those crappy recycled green covers!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Deserved classic- science fiction with character
Review: As well as being the gripping high-adventure story that other reviewers have written about, when I re-read this novel recently I was struck by another side to the story that I hadn't noticed before- it reads, especially at the beginning of the book, as a satire. Verne is not content with helping to invent science fiction in terms of the science- some of which is consciously out-of-date even as Verne writes it, as he explains away science facts such as why inside the Earth's core is not flesh-meltingly hot in a manner not dissimilar to those bits of Star Trek where they tell you how the teleport works. In addition to the science, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth has character. Verne invents in this story the very concept of the mad scientist, in this case Professor Lidenbrock, who struggles to teach coherently at a German university and who is sent on a wild goose chase to Iceland because of one scrap of paper found in a library book. The interplay between our narrator Axel, his mad professor uncle and the reliable but non-verbal Icelandic guide Hans has things to say about the self-importance of science as well as about class and social standing. The science of this book is horrendously flawed but I believe it's the strength of character as well as Verne's fantastically imagined underground worlds that makes this novel not an out-dated joke but deservedly a classic.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: 4 stars
Review: Verne captures real drama and human response in this fictitious masterpiece.It's a book for those who like the somewhat sureal adventure story. The plot thickens as the book progresses and i've read it twice in very different circumstances leading me to give it 4 stars. Firstly i read it one summer holiday in one big reading session as i really couldn't put it down, it was magic. The second time i read it on the bus on the way to work and found that having to read it on and off i didn't enjoyit nearly as much and found it hard to get back into. Not a book to read on and off from night to night in bed even but great if you've got a few hours to kill and you want to make the very mos of them.great book.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Believable adventure
Review: An excellent and very easily readable adventure. As most novels from that era it is actually very realistic (to me it is more believable than aliens landing etc.)and left me feeling that if I followed the descriptions of the journey, I could have the same adventure. Almost like a travelog.The language is easy, the characters colourful and the events intrigueing so that you want to - and are able to - read it in one go.
Stick with the penguin translation: I had a quick look at others and they didn't seem as good