Verne was a great writer. I though I read a couple of book about his novels. I really enjoyed it always a pleasure could read the classics.
This is an optional way to read classics. As always classic starts write their books for youngest readings like me. Aug 31, Aisha Nanda rated it it was amazing. Feels like i came back to my child year when a book gave fascinating imagination of adventure. My fav part was when the three pass along the coast with fossil of a thousand-years-extinct animals, and when the mastodon and prehistoric human pass in front of them. What a weird-yet-excited feeling they'd have! I love it!
Sep 06, Timothy Bachheimer rated it liked it Shelves: classics-starts. I think that Journey to the Center of the Earth was a good book, but the problem is that it was quite short, when it was retold, compared to the movie, and you can hardly know where the setting is when they tell you the story, so I would give it a three star. May 28, Kim McGee rated it liked it. I am using this as part of my library camp this Summer.
Classic Starts is a great way to introduce the classics to a younger group of kids 7 and up without scaring them with size and vocabulary. I did think this retelling was a bit too stripped down from the original however. Jun 15, Valerie rated it really liked it Shelves: childrens. I read this with my reading support kids and they loved it. It was a bit confusing at the end trying to explain the abyss and gravity and magnetism and an electrical storm, but they enjoyed the mystery and adventure!
Nov 13, Joycetho1 rated it it was amazing. I thought that this was a great book. It is about a man named Axle that goes on a great adventure with his uncle Lidenbrock, and a man named Hans.
There ultimate destination is the center of the earth. I thought that this book was well written, and fast moving. I really enjoyed this book. Nov 16, Becky F. This was an exciting retelling of the original. My kids really enjoyed it. My 9 year old asked if we could read the original Jules Verne novel soon. This Classic Starts edition definitely did its job of introducing a classic novel to children and making them want to read the original story. Mar 06, Tengku Haryani rated it liked it.
May 10, April rated it it was amazing Shelves: kids-classic-lit , simon-s-books , mims-little-shelf. All the best parts of the unabridged version! Perfect for a reluctant reader who enjoys action and adventure! Mar 18, Brayton rated it it was amazing. It was cool because they went to the center of the earth.
They almost ran out of water. I thought it was cool and exciting. Shelves: favorites. May 13, Gustavo Adolfo rated it it was amazing. Great book Great read my 7 year old loved it. He described it as exciting,funny and well described.
I would definitely recommend. Dec 14, Roxanne Koopman rated it it was ok Shelves: journey , friendship. I found this book quite boring, just as remembered from 5th grade when I read it. It goes into a lot of details, a little less talk A LOT more action! Dec 18, Ajita Singh rated it it was amazing. Corey rated it it was ok Sep 17, He wrote several works that dealt with travel in some way: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea about Captain Nemo and his submarine; Five Weeks in a Balloon ; Around the World in 80 Days , in which the hero Phileas Fogg travels by means of every type of vehicle available in the 19th c.
Verne wrote so many novels in which travel was key that his series of books are called, as a group, Voyages Extraordinaires. Verne is sometimes credited as being a guy ahead of his time, a man who could envision the future, and affect the shape that future took.
Still, Verne does present, in an engaging style, stories about what would still have been fantastic, if not quite unheard of, ideas in his day. In Journey , Verne not only blazes no new trails, but, for the sake of his story, he simply discounts the scientific wisdom of the day.
Scientists then maintained and scientists still maintain that one cannot travel to the center of the earth, as the core of the planet is molten. Pish, posh, says Professor Lidenbrock, the intrepid explorer of the novel.
It never occurs to the professor that Saknussemm may have been mistaken, or simply lied. And so, he and his nephew, Axel, set out on the journey. Axel is the narrator of the novel, and though a youth of physical and mental ability he breaks the code, by suggesting the message is backwards and meant to be in Latin , he is essentially a comfortable bourgeois gentleman, who has no desire to disturb the rhythms and routines of his life.
Of course, he is worried, as well, that the Professor might get himself killed pursuing this dream of reaching the center of the earth, or worse, get himself and Axel killed.
Often in the western canon, adventure is undertaken by a nobleman, and by someone eager for the adventure. Jules Verne was born in France. Around the World in Eighty Days has long been his most popular novel. Verne is credited with creating the genre of science fiction with such other works as Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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