false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166930335m/18468.jpg 32829 287 As irascible scholar Professor Lidenbrock pores over a rare Icelandic tome, he discovers a scrap of parchment with cryptic writing tucked away between the ancient pages. And when his nephew, Axel, finally breaks the writing's secret code, he learns of a hidden underground passageway that may lead deep into the center of the earth.<br><br>Despite Axel's misgivings, he and the obsessed Lidenbrock travel to Iceland and, with a guide named Hans, set out on a perilous expedition in the course of which the trio will encounter an extraordinary new world of extinct yet living species, an underground sea, and gigantic, battling monsters.<br><br>Filled with the authentic detail and startling immediacy Jules Verne labored to bring to <b>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</b> and <b>Around the World in Eighty Days</b>, <b>Journey to the Center of the Earth</b> is the fantastic adventure that secured Verne's reputation as the premier writer of speculative fiction. 1924715 book 1864 Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Classic) total:6122|5:1224|4:2110|3:2114|2:539|1:135| 6122 22115 8417 413 748349 0764134957 9780764134951 221 6 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177989419m/748349.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748349.Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth 5 3 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 03 18:45:38 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 18:49:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 4 3 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Fri Mar 21 17:05:13 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 07:25:57 -0800 2008 1 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (for instance, in the version I read, the Professor's name was Hardwegg, not Lidenbrock!), and this no doubt produces...more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 4 4 false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 19:48:06 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 11:47:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 2 2 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 11:00:38 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 11:52:56 -0700 2008
In picking this book up from the library I had fantastic preconceived images burned into my mind of what I might expect to read (prehestoric animals, humanoids, battles,...more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 2 2 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 05 12:36:34 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 13:33:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 3 1 false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 18:39:39 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 18:47:31 -0700 2009 Journey to the Centre of the Earth was nothing like I expected. I have never read any Verne before, but I thought I was familiar with some of the basic ideas of the novel. However, this "popular" knowledge was largely erroneous, and the book turned out to be more academically int...more...]]> 940838 1575665328 9781575665320 5 2 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179642927m/940838.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940838.Journey_To_The_Center_Of_The_Earth 4 1 false Fri Apr 25 10:43:50 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 11:34:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 5 2 false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 19:06:08 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 19:08:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 5 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 23 15:11:18 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 16:18:09 -0800 2008 2 more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 0 1 false Tue Mar 31 07:28:41 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 07:29:03 -0700 2009 516052 0872320499 38 1 3.61 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/516052.Journey_To_the_Center_of_the_Earth 2 0 false Tue Jan 06 06:22:23 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 06:32:38 -0800 2009
With that being said, though, I was more than a little disappointed. I tho...more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 4 0 false Fri Oct 16 04:16:19 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 04:17:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 679649 0812504712 9780812504712 26 3 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177087074m/679649.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/679649.Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth 5 0 false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 16:07:41 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 16:28:41 -0700 2009
One of the criticisms I came across was that o...more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 4 0 false Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 13:22:37 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 20:09:12 -0800 2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth is in the point of view of Harry whos Uncle is Professor Hardwigg. They find a sheet of paper in abook and they uncode it to show a man named Arne Saknussemm had reached the center of the Earth. Arne was a alchemist in the 16th century who was aganist ever...more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 2 0 false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 09:16:37 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 07:25:00 -0700 2009
With that said, Journey to the Centre of the Earth isn't terribly good. I recognize that science fiction requires a ...more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 4 0 false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 22:41:44 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:45:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2287204 1416561463 9781416561460 15 2 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255628375m/2287204.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2287204.Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth 2 0 false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 17:16:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 12:46:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1086171 1578400341 9781578400348 3 1 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180872595m/1086171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1086171.A_Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth 3 1 false Wed Jan 14 15:02:17 -0800 2009 Sat Jun 27 13:49:25 -0700 2009
this was really good. I only gave it three stars because it IS slow. :) Not a single movie based on it does it justice, though. While they add in more action, they leave out some things that could have been really cool- like primiti...more...]]> 32829 0553213970 9780553213973 4500 291 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393885m/32829.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 2 0 false Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 08:32:38 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 08:33:05 -0800 2009 Jules Verne
Scholastic
1965 (originally published 1864)

I had not previously read this novel, so I was happy to find the time to finally immerse myself in it. "Journey" is the story of a professor, his nephew, and a native Icel...more...]]> 623395 0140621393 9780140621396 70 11 3.61 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176411132m/623395.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/623395.Journey_to_the_Centre_of_the_Earth 4 0 false Mon Dec 08 19:16:10 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 19:29:27 -0800 2008
It is also often startling how much the explication of evolution would change things. For instance,...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=18468