Journey to the Center of the Earth
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This is Jules Verne’s entry in the incomprehensible adventure genre, a classic of 19th century science fiction. Originally published in 1864 as Voyage au centre de la Terre, there are two principal English translations. The most commonly reprinted translation, published by Griffith and Farran in 1871, changed the names of some of the characters, and added and deleted passages ad lib. This translation, but, is considered more accurate.
Verne looms large in the literature of the hollow planet, not only because of his fame, but because the book is so well written, and, despite some creaky science, is not a perfect departure from reality, compared with additional similar books from the 19th century such as Etidorpha, or the later Pellucidar books of Egdar Rice Burroughs.–J.B. Hare
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I reflect I really did not know this book. Can a name really travel to the center of the planet? I need 3 ways it is possible to travel to the center of the planet and three ways why you can not really travel to the center of the planet. My outline on this book is due tommorow. I need a name to respond to me about this A.S.A.P.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Last year, our science teacher had us read this book when we were studying the Planet’s interior. I keenly went out and bought it, only to find that it was a dissappointment. My favorite thing to do is read, and in my entire life, this is the only book my parents have had to make me read. It was detailed, which is usually excellent, but add too much detail as Verne did in this novel and you start to lose interest while waiting for something to take place. I wouldnt reccomend this to anyone.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’m a dissapointed ten year ancient rating this book. Up until the end it
Was probably one of the best books I’ve ever read. It was full of adventure and excitement, but then I got to the end. The book did not live up to it’s name. It would be more appropriately called “Journey Nearly to the Centre of the Planet. I recommend this book only to people who like major dissapointments.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book Journey the the Centre of the Planet was not as excellent as I had expected it to be considering that the additional novels that Jules Verne has written have been better. In my view, I would have to say that there was too much science terms and in doing so it made things extremely confusing. I would definetly never reccomend this book to anyone unless they really like science novels. I reflect that the book described things a small fully and at a point I was bored. I only establish about three pages that really engrossed me into the book. There was a beginning middle and an end but the middle was very long. There was no lesson learned in the tale therefore not alot of meaning. It seemed as if the book just went on and on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
One thing I did not realize about the book Journey to the Center of the Planet was that it was originally written in French by Jules Verne. This book is my first reading of any of his works, and after reading Journey to the Center of the Planet, I am to some extent apprehensive but feel confident in reading more of his additional books. The tale of Journey to the Center of the Planet is ongoing out perfectly à la in the prose of John Steinbeck, and I thought I was going to be taken on a fantastic ride. Somehow, I was getting more disappointed as the more I got to know to Professor Lidenbrock, who of course influenced the creation of the Doc character from Back to the Future, because he is such a hard-headed a-hole. I just didn’t like the one-dimensional mindedness that he carries along with his absolute pedantic method that makes me want to punch his nose every time he goes on his “I am right, and you are incorrect” argument. Therefore, I felt sorry for the nephew who had to place up with him. In the meanwhile, the journey to the center of the planet starts in Iceland which influenced me momentously to look up the internet the history of the country and the pictures, so anytime I reflect of the book, Iceland will come to my mind, or vice-versa. Of course, the feeling of the adventurous trip is much akin to Indiana Jones movies except the sacrilegious fourth part. Before that journey was embarked, I just can’t help but feel how utterly stupid the thought is and the nonsensical undertaking is. Then again, I have to remind myself that the book is purely science fiction. I want to make two points of mention from early chapters of the book. The nephew is right in calculating the number of combinations twenty letters can make but only twenty distinct (no repeats) letters. How the math is done is that it is 20 times 19 times 18 times 17 times…3 times 2 times 1 letters (multiplication format, as I mean). Really, this is not a combination but rather a permutation. So, that’s a tiny change in the wording but a huge difference because the ordering of the words does not matter at all during combinations yet the nephew is concerned about putting the words in an order which is exactly the definition of permutation. The next point which I reflect the uncle made a serious error when it came to calculating the temperature of the center of the planet. He said that the radius of the planet is over 4,000 miles and to go to the center, it takes one degree for every seventy feet not more than. In end, he calculated the temperature of the center to be over two million degrees. Whether that is in Centigrade, Fahrenheit, or Kelvin, he doesn’t say. There are 5,280 feet in a mile, so in 4,000 miles, we have 2.1 x 10^7 feet (or 21 billion feet) and then to apportion that by 70 feet, we get 301,714 degrees. If that is in Centigrade, then it is 543,117 degrees Fahrenheit. If it’s the additional way, then it is 167,601 degrees Celsius and also 167,874 Kelvins. So, the uncle is incorrect, incorrect, incorrect! Of course, he goes further with more techno babble elsewhere in the book that I can’t really say if he is right or not because I have zero expertise in geology. In fleeting, a guy like Andy Dufresne would immensely delight in reading Journey to the Center of the Planet, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that book influenced him to take up geology. On a second thought, as for myself, I reflect I will do so the same and credit the book for sparking my interest. As for the reading of the adventure to the end, I reflect Jules Verne has really captured my attention because of the rush and tension that came with the journey, but too terrible that every chapter was spoiled by its heading. For example, Chapter 22 is the search of water, and the next Chapter kills the suspense with its heading “We Find Water.” Another is Chapter 28 where the nephew is in the dark the whole time and is completely lost and I marvel if he gets rescued. The next two chapters come with the heading “I Hear Voices” and “Saved.” Hey…thanks a lot…way to go…lovely….really lovely. Of course, during the trip, I can’t stand the uncle and was dying to end the book and be done with it because of him. All in all, Journey to the Center of the Planet is a fantastic read that is suitable for all ages although a fantastic deal of suspension of disbelief is required, and I only question for the uncle to be replaced with somebody else with a better personality.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5