Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Hello again! Long time no see and I hate to admit this, but I feel like I must (mostly because I am pretty sure I am the only one reading these posts anyway), I do believe the only reason I bothered to get on right now is for the simple fact that I could not play The Sims like I had originally planned. Anyway, long story short. I jumped on decided that I had read about 5 or 6 novels since the last time I posted and why not go ahead and post one now. This whole "Read of the Week" thing should definitely be changed to "Read of the Year" though. Anyway, I want to talk about Jules Verne's torturous novel.

Now, don't start off thinking that I only didn't like the book because I am not an avid classic book reader. Anyone (mostly me) that reads this blog understands that I do typically read books written by dead people (well, they are dead now. Obviously they couldn't have been dead when the book was first published.) So point is, that's not my reason for downplaying the novel. In fact, Verne is a pretty fantastic writer. He is very eloquent with his words and his descriptions are just long enough that you get a real sense of what is going on in the novel. However, his descriptions happen to center on rocks. Yep. Rocks. All 246 pages (in my version.)

Now, if I was a geologist (like the characters in this novel) then this book might hold some monetary value to me (besides the $3 I did waste on this novel.) Actually, it wasn't a complete and total waste. Like I mentioned earlier, Verne is great at writing and the characters were very diverse and different which might not be surprising to everyone, but it was sort of surprising to me. After all, I opened up this book with the complete and total expectation that I would hate it. And I did. Probably my fault a little bit actually. Also, it did end up taking me a month to read it, but I had a very busy winter break so I did quite often sit down and read this book for at least an hour when I had the time. So to end my discussion:

Did I like the book?        That's a very hard question. Yes and no.
Would I read it again?     Oh no, no, no. No, no, no.
Do I recommend it?        Only if you have a fascination with rocks and long detailed descriptions of said rocks.