I love this book a ture classic. The extent of the imagination of Jules Verne is just mind boggoling. No corners are cut, nothing is left unfinished, just through and excellent writing ( )

This is a fun book - much more humorous than I'd expected. The language can get somewhat arduous at times but overall it's a pretty fun read. ( )

This book is about a guy named Axel, his uncle, and how they go on a journey. Axel's uncle is a professor that teaches about mineralogy. One day he comes home with a piece of paper. It tells about a journey to the center of the earth. When Axel hears about this he thinks his uncle is crazy but his uncle drags him along. Many things end up happening on the journey but to find out if they make it READ the book!

I didn't like this book because it was to scientific and confusing to me. ( )

In this book a man and his uncle go to the middle of the earth. It was ok but it would be better if the author had used smaller words. ( )

I thought that this book was very boring. It was basicly teaching me about science. The word hypothesis was even used more than once. It was very slow moving and drawn out. ( )

A quick read but entertaining enough. ( )

Decoding an ancient message, a boy and his Uncle find the secret to finding the center of the Earth by traveling to Iceland and finding an entrance in one of the mountains, pointed to by a shadow during a specific month.

During the journey, they are faced with many obstacles, including rushing waters, ocean, lack of food and starvation, dehydration and in the case of the boy, a few near death experiences.

I found it to be an okay story, a little slow for me and hard to follow whether or not they were still in the center or back on the surface of Earth.

It had been a long time from my first reading of this classic tale of adventure to just this past week and reading it again.
When compared to some other works by J. Verne, this early title is somewhat simplistic in its unfolding, however, I was still spellbound and was driven to explore beyond the next wall or read around the next subterranean sea.

If you like classic stories of exploration fiction, or you you like J. Verne; this is a must title in your library. Still a good read after all the years. ( )

dude its Jules Verne... ( )

Based on the discovery of a mysterious parchment detailing the entrance to the center of the earth, a passionate scientist drags his nephew to Iceland. There, with the help of their trusty Icelandic guide, they gain entry to travel deep into the earth,, where they have many great adventures including dangerous tunnels, an underground ocean, prehistoric creatures, and other natural hazards.

I have seen so many versions of Journey to the Center of the Earth from the good to the very, very bad. This book is so much better than all of them. Much of the book is just traveling through dark tunnels before they make their more outrageous discoveries (the movies seem to insist on adding more complications).

I had been worried that it was going to be dry like some books of the older style of prose, but i was pleasantly surprised. The narrative is entertaining throughout, keeping the reader on the edge of their seat, and often quite funny. I loved Professor Liedenbrock, whose wild passions often lead to humorous situations, as well as his more timid nephew Axel, who was not nearly as excited by the trip. I even enjoyed Hans, the silent and stoic guide.

This is a fun, entertaining adventure novel. I loved it, and am quite excited to read the rest of Verne's works. ( )

In my opinion, far and away the best book Verne ever wrote and one of the best sci-fi books ever written. I own several copies, including Heritage Press and Folio Society. If I read French, I'd try to own a first edition. ( )

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A BOOK WITH A LOT OF ADVEANTURESAND THIS IT CAN LEARNS YOU SOME THINGS WERE OTHER BOOKS CAN'T.

This is a re-read. It is a very good adventure, one of his best, maintaining a real sense of threat and suffocating claustrophobia under the ground. There are some internal inconsistencies in dates and timings which would probably not get past a modern editor. Good stuff. ( )

It's...interesting. I hadn't realized how much the story was a treatise on evolution (as understood at the time). Now I need to read more Verne to see if he's done the same (presumably in other fields) in his other books.
It's a little hard to read - the viewpoint character is ridiculously variable - wild mood-swings from "We're all going to fail and die! Now!" to "Let's go! We are great adventurers!". Got a bit hard to take. Verne did some neat elision to get past the most unbelievable part - finding the interior cavern; since the VP character (I really can't call him the hero) is unconscious after tremendous strain, that whole event never gets told. And like that. I spent much more time noticing the writing and the agenda of the author than I did enjoying the story. That may be a mood thing, but right now I feel like there's not a lot of story (and _very_ little characterization - lots of cardboard 'traits', though) to this book. ( )

I guess I've been spoiled by modern fast-paced writing. While I did enjoy this book in the end, and it had some great parts, I found a lot of it to be time-killing "filler" type material. Was it really necessary to take 90 pages to actually descend into the earth? Not in my humble opinion.

The afterword by Nimoy was interesting, though. ( )

I loved this book! I seriously cannot believe that I avoided Verne for decades because I found Wells somewhat plodding. Of course, I've seen the movies made of both authors' works, but it was the most recent (2008) version which piqued my interest. By following the story by telling a narrative which encompassed it, I was having so much fun that I decided to read--and what a trip! It's on my favorites list now. ( )

Good bedtime reading for the 7 year old daughter and me. And it takes me waaaaay back: I loved Verne when I was 8 and 9 and 10. The plot of this book is preposterous, but so what? ( )

Enjoyable, if a little too long

Verne was famous as a populariser of science, and it's easy to see why. The intellectual content is well-judged, softened by entertainment – it’s the journey narrative that can be a little plodding, as can his exposition, with too much spare description and repetition. Verne is good at dialogue and characters though, with a timely injection of humour now and then. ( )

I like this book, because it is really an interisted story. devided between the adventure and imagination.
Ali Mukhtar ( )

Narrated by one of the three main characters, a young upstart whose zeal makes up for his naivety, this novel is fairly simplistic. In fact, the great irony of it is that despite it being a novel about travel, it doesn’t really go anywhere.

Read the rest of this review at Arukiyomi. ( )

4199 A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne (read 18 Aug 2006) This is the third Verne book I have read and is a totally fantastic and impossible story. Henry and his uncle go to Iceland and with an Icelandic guide go down a dormant volcano--and have all kinds of impossible things happen till they resurface on the island of Stromboli. This was not nearly as good a book as Around the World in 80 Days (read 1 Nov 2004) since the events therein could conceivably have happened. I might read his book on going to the moon, since that tells of an event which eventually occurred. ( )

I did not like this book. I don't much care for the lecture-like narrative style Verne uses here, and I particularly dislike the stunted and wooden, not to mention Platoesque dialogue that exists throughout the book between Henry and his obsessive uncle. Also, there is very little suspense, since we know from the beginning that all three members return safely to the surface having suffered no losses of any kind. ( )

A nice little adventure story full of peril and suspense but I was sorely disappointed with the ending. ( )

1863 German professor Otto Lidenbrock uncovers ancient icelandic writings that suggest a passage to the center of the earth. professor takes his nephew and danish guide Hans on a trip to a world only one other person has seen. The story is inventive but boring in sections weighted down with science. I would have loved to seen more of the world he encounter as it ended a bit abruptly. I read it because it is a classic and i'm sure utterly suspenseful for it's time. ( )