A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Written by Jules Verne
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Jules Verne was a prolific French writer who greatly influenced the science fiction genre. Verne is the second most-translated author behind only Agatha Christie.
“Go down the crater of the volcano Snaefells. Follow the shadow just before the month of July. You will find your way to the center of the Earth. I did it.”That mysterious message, found in a long-lost letter, propels a young man and his uncle on the adventure of a lifetime: to a prehistoric world below the earth where dinosaurs and other strange creatures still roam. Jules Verne’s classic sci-fi novel tells the story of German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth.
He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snaefellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.
‘Journey’ has been read by millions of inquisitive minds and has influenced some of the worlds most famous explorers such as Admiral Byrd, who announced on his 1926 expedition to the North Pole that "it is Jules Verne who is bringing me."
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828-1905) used a combination of scientific facts and his imagination to take readers on extraordinary imaginative journeys to fantastic places. In such books as Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon, and Journey to the Center of the Earth, he predicted many technological advances of the twentieth century, including the invention of the automobile, telephone, and nuclear submarines, as well as atomic power and travel to the moon by rocket.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This audiobook sounds like it was recorded at a junior college as an English 101 group project. There are at least 6 different readers each reading their own chapter/chapters with a loose pattern of taking turns. As soon as you get used to the accent and halting speech of one reader, another starts with an entirely different reading style and different difficulties with Verne’s vocabulary. Fluency of speech is the main difficulty. I made it through 25 chapters, but the above difficulties are really wearing on my ear and attention span.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Bad narration. I stopped after the third narrator in chapter 9. He was the worst. Find a better version
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The guy that mainly narrates is good but there are a couple of other ones that are downright horrible
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Unironically cool story needs more dragons n sheet (dragons being dinosaurs)
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Horrible version to listen to. The reader changes every few chapters and is drastically different in accents and reading styles.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5They change narrators every two chapters. The audio is terrible, and the speakers sound as if they can barely read. Awful.