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Around the World in 80 Days
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Release Date: 2005-04-12 |
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Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.
Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS gripped audiences upon its original publication and remains hugely popular to this day.
From the Cassette edition.
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Around the World in 80 Days.......2007-07-05
I had never read this book before and to listen to Jim Dale narrate was exceptional. This narration brings out another side to Jim Dale's abilities to draw the listener into the story. Totally different than his narration of Harry Potter. Excellent!!! Three thumbs up.
Wonderful story.......2007-03-03
This is a wonderful classic story masterfully read by Jim Dale. If you start listening to it and think it is slow moving and boring, I would encourage you to be patient. Once the story gets going, and believe me it does, you will find yourself wrapped up in it as if you yourself had a part in Phileas Fogg's bet. If you don't give this story a chance you are really missing out. My children (ages 10,9, and 7) loved it and really got into the story. No, it's not Harry Potter, it's much better.
Around the World in 80 Days.......2007-01-06
I found this audio book very boring. It did not hold my interest at all. I bought this book because of the person that was the reader. I have all of the Harry Potter books and Jim Dale is an excellent reader. But this book just was not my cup of tea.
It left us breathless!.......2006-07-01
I took this audiobook along on a recent 2-day drive to Florida with my 7-year-old who only knew the Jackie Chan version of the story (!) and he was hooked by Jim Dale from the first word to the last 8 hours later. His character-voices were spot-on, the incidental music was an unexpected and delightful bonus - we were breathless with anticipation throughout the whole story. The miles to Florida disappeared as we crossed the Indian sub-continent and everywhere else along with the unflappable Phileas Fogg and his Dear Fellow. A wonderful ride! This is a top-notch production.
Dale is brillant in excellent book.......2005-11-22
I saw Jim Dale years ago on Broadway in Barnum. He was excellent there, and is even moreso here. He creates voices for the characters that I believe perfectly match the characters that Jules Verne envisioned and created. The story keeps you endlessly engaged, and Dale is up to the task. And, by the way, contrary to the cover design, and contrary to everything that you may think if you've never read the book....there's no balloon.
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Jules Verne Collection: Around the World in 80 Days/Journey to the Center of the Earth/20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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ASIN: 069451537X |
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Suggested REading.......2001-12-12
( 80 Days Around the World)...... I completely suggest reading this book! It is a thriller of all classics. At school, I have been trying to get a lot of my friends to read it and only one has-- she LOVED it. She loved the misfortunes, the mix-ups, the trials, and ingenuity of the characters, and characters, the romance, the race against the clock, the sheer suspense of it all. If you ever want a book that once you get into to you'll never put it down-- READ THIS BOOK!!!! I promise it to be a good read by an excellent author.
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Verne's most outrageous "voyage extraordinaire" - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen's club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well-regulated.
Jules Verne preferred to call himself an author of "voyages extraordinaires." An extraordinary voyage it is, from Fogg's announcement to Passepartout that they are to "leave for Dover in ten minutes," to his triumphant return to the Reform Club at the last second!
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An eccentric English gentleman and his manservant pack a carpet bag with two woolen shirts, three pairs of stockings, and 20,000 pounds, and travel around the world in 80 days, in order to win a bet.
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Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
A book based around a bet. Two adventurers, one a gentleman, and one not so nice, make a not so small wager, on Fogg's ability to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less.
When something like that happens, of course there will be villainous nogoodniks trying to stop you from accomplishing your task, winning the bet, getting the girl and all the good grog, etc.
A great book.......2007-06-05
Around The World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is more true to life than
other books by Verne. The movie starring David Niven is a good movie.
By Danny Karl Fleming, author of How to Prove The Collatz Conjecture.
Easy to read and fun to boot.......2006-12-20
I had never read this classic until now, my 40th year, and I am so glad I did. I laughed, I was tense, I enjoyed it through and through.
A bit slow, but still good.......2006-09-16
Like many classics, this book is paced completely different than a modern novel. It takes forever to get going and even then, not all that much does happen. That to me was the biggest disappointment: Not all that much happens at all. Sure, they get in some trouble and have to fight their way through, but overall, it seems a two-week trip of my own is often more exciting than these 80 days around a world (to excaturate slightly). And to make matters worse, even when something does happen and people venture out to solve a problem, too much time is spent describing the people left behind waiting, and sometimes there is no description of the actual solution of the problem. But such is the style of the time, I guess.
I guess part of the problem is that the story deals with getting around the world as fast as possible, which leaves little time for anything but getting from a ship to the next train and so forth. Very little time is spent at all the different places, which would have offered so much potential story-wise, yet there is no time.
I still enjoyed reading it, in part because the way books were written at this time just amuses me (old English and all). And towards the end, the excitement does pick up a little bit. Not to modern-day-novel levels, but still, I enjoyed it.
You will like this book if you start reading with the right expectations.
Rollicking good time.......2006-08-22
I think those of us who were introduced to this classic via the recent Jackie Chan movie were done a great disservice. This book accomplishes what few books can: even though the characters are one dimensional, the reader cares about them and genuinely wants to know what will happen next.
The basic setup is that Phileas Fogg makes a bet with members of his club that he can travel the world in 80 days, and then lugs Passaporteau around with him while he sets about accomplishing this task.
Verne does a great job of indicting the tourist mindset that we have today, and apparently had back in Verne's time. Throughout the whole book, Fogg is traveling through France, India, Singapore, Japan and the US, yet never takes the time to appreciate any of it. It's a lot like the people who take vacations and then bring back 20 rolls of film depicting every single landmark mentioned in Frommer's. They've seen it all, but it's all done with a sense of urgency and no real joy. Again, Verne has proven adept at predicting and accurately characterizing human foibles.
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A terrific observer of the human condition.......2005-10-16
A great read , especially when Michael jump's to what he really is thinking , his personal insights into cultures and the differences between them . Though I have to admit his section on India was by far the most intresting read for me as I was familiar with the content he wrote about, therefore it does enhance the read if you have visited or had some experience with some of these cultures..
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Best Book in the World! (and very well illstrated).......2005-05-26
I read this book and it seemed as if it was happening in real life! i recomend this book to children of all ages and to adults!
I LOVE THIS BOOK!-
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This book is O.K........2005-04-20
My friend and I read this book together. It was quite easy, though. The tect was HUGE! We got through like 3 chaapters a day. But, It is a good book for little kids. If you are 5-7 this is the book for you. I liked this book because it was intresting, too. When I was older, I read the real unillistrated one. They were almost the same but the page differance was around 300 pages different.
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Around The World In 80 Days
Jules Verne
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An enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
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La vuelta al mundo en 80 Dias / Around The World In 80 Days (Estrella / Star)
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Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, the highly acclaimed Sybille Bedford has narrated-in fiction and nonfiction-what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this memoir, her first new book in over ten years, she provides the moving culmination to an epic personal story that takes readers from the Berlin of World War I, to the artists' set on the C™te d'Azur of the 1920s, through lovers, mentors, seducers, and friends, from genteel yet shabby poverty to settled comfort in London's West End. Whether evoking the simple sumptuousness of a home-cooked meal, or tracing the heartrending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers both "a deliciously evoked return to worlds" (John Fowles), and spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives.
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a bit annoying.......2005-09-07
Memoir of a novelist who is (I think it is fair to say) little known outside of literary circles. Interesting to a point but I was annoyed by the staccato style of writing and soon tired of it.
A disappointment.......2005-07-15
I had eagerly awaited "Quicksands," undoubtedly the last of this wonderful writer's books, given her advanced age, but sadly I was disappointed. Bedford's novels, which I have read, are autobiographical, despite her disclaimers, but I didn't realize how true to life they were until reading her memoir. Bedford lived an erratic, charmed, difficult life, part of the European artistic generation between the wars, when one could exist for long periods of time on the generosity of friends and move relatively freely from country to country. But Bedford's memoir feels removed from her life, in a way her vivid novels are not. "Jigsaw's" characters reappear--her father and mother, Oriane, Issa, Allessandro--but she observes them from afar, and they feel flat to me. She assumes the reader knows a lot already from her novels, so some incidents are briefly and cryptically covered in a way that without prior knowledge they are meaningless. An example is the story of Rosie, whose lover was a famous English jurist who secretely led a double life for many years. Bedford covers this emotional, painful, amazing story in a page and a half for the sole purpose of finally revealing the jurist's name, but without the vivid background from her novel the revelation has little impact. "Quicksands" is leading me back to the novels I haven't yet read--she's an exquisite writer. Try "Jigsaw" for the real story of this amazing woman's life.
Quicksilver.......2005-06-05
A very good writer tells of her unconventional past in Europe, with the memories harvested mainly from the time between the two great wars. Ms. Bedford omits the retelling of many episodes covered in her previous books (none of which I have read) and assumes the reader knows more of history and twentieth century literature than is probably true of most current readers. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the book and admired its many "true" sentences.
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Enjoyable history, engaging style.......2006-07-08
I purchased this book as I was driving through the Mormon country of Dixie in southwest Utah to try to get a better understanding of Mormonism. We had just toured Pipe Springs National Monument, a fort constructed by Mormons used to house polygamous families. For non-Mormons, polygamy and Mormonism is fascinating and nearly as exotic as bedouin nomads in Morrocoo.
Quicksand and Cactus is a flowing narrative of Mormon life in the last century told in a non-judgemental tone by the granddaughter of a polygamist. What sets this book apart from other books about Mormonism I've read, such as Jon Krakauer's Banner of Heaven is that Juanita Brooks fully believed in her faith from day one and practiced. There is nothing in her book that would lead you to believe that there was anything unusual at all about her grandfather being polygamous. As such, her book provides a truthful look at what being Mormon must really be like.
In addition, the book is very readable. Her voice is charming and likeable. It's a bit like Little House on the Prairie and made me admire the deep pioneering spirit of these particular Mormons who occupied an unhopitable corner of the country.
A Must Read.......2006-04-10
This Must Read will tell you more about the Mormon frontier in Southern Utah than any other book I have read. It is definitely one I will keep in my personal library.
A wonderfully honest and human account of pioneer life.......1999-01-09
One of the most accessable, yet honest histories I've read. Brooks was a well-respected historian in academic circles, yet with her straightforward style instantly transports the lay reader into the early Mormon frontier.
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Reticent achievement.(Quicksands: A Memoir)(Book Review): An article from: New Criterion
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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Foundation for Cultural Review on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1098 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Reticent achievement.(Quicksands: A Memoir)(Book Review)
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