Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Re-Read 12/9/21:
This read was again just as enjoyable as the first. :)
Update! 20,000 Pounds back then, adjusted by inflation and converted to today's American Dollar, would come out to be $16,593,290.
Isn't that FASCINATING? To think, to take trains, boats, or an elephant, would STILL cost 16 million dollars today.
Oh. Wait. It probably does.
Original Review:
The original steampunk adventure! Written while it was still called modern!
Fascinating! :)
Seriously, though... Jules Verne knows how to write a fast-paced adventure with French tomfoolery and English sprats. They're buckling down to show other multi-millionaires (price adjusted) what a *real* wager is, using nothing more than a very keen mind and a talent for reading multiple departures in the paper. (You had to be there. And you also have to enjoy a period piece, too!)
But that's not all, folks! The Indian Princess gets saved by the Bully Englishman! Awwww... I've almost got a picture in my head of Tarzan swinging Jane through the jungle. :)
It really is a fun novel, all told. Light fun, adventure, theft, mistaken identity, and even a moral to tuck in the end of the story to send us off to dreamland. Awww.
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Thursday, December 9, 2021
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