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Staid English gentleman Phileas Fogg never does anything out of the ordinary and never deviates from his strict routine. He even fired his domestic servant for serving him shaving water at a suboptimal temperature. His replacement is Passepartout, a Frenchman with a flair for the dramatic. Fogg comes home early on Passepartout’s first day, having made a high-stakes bet with his reform club that he can go around the world in eighty days - starting now. And Fogg does not intend to lose.
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I was kind of disappointed that there was no hot air balloon in the book. I was also surprised that I felt it would be a classified as a young adult book today (or at least I felt that way.) I would also not say it was science fiction today. It was written in 1874, and maybe then it could have been science fiction. I did like the fact he tried to put in cultural tidbits of the countries visited. Some I felt were stereotypical, but then again it was written in the 1800. Overall I enjoyed it, even
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