Sarah
It was hard for me to get through. It became a book I only read in waiting rooms with nothing else to do. It picked up half way and I did find the chapters in Mormonism amusing.
My biggest question though: When in New York, Fogg just misses the scheduled boat to Liverpool, so he finds a boat and asks the captain to take him to Liverpool.....But if you can have the boat take you anywhere, why not ask to go to London or at least a port in southern England, closer to London?! And the captain doesn't go for this and they settle on going to Bordeaux but on the ship Fogg convinces the shiphands to lock up the captain and take course for Liverpool. But they run out of coal and the engineer says they had enough to get to Bordeaux but not Liverpool. London is closer to Bordeaux so they may still have had to burn some beds for fuel but still seems like London or a southern port would have been a better bet still. The only reason I can think of is Verne wanted to include the very fast mail boat from Dublin to Liverpool and the whole ending with Fogg thinking he's late. Still bothersome to me. Let me know if there may be a more legitimate reason for Fogg to keep his Liverpool route.
It was hard for me to get through. It became a book I only read in waiting rooms with nothing else to do. It picked up half way and I did find the chapters in Mormonism amusing.
My biggest question though: When in New York, Fogg just misses the scheduled boat to Liverpool, so he finds a boat and asks the captain to take him to Liverpool.....But if you can have the boat take you anywhere, why not ask to go to London or at least a port in southern England, closer to London?! And the captain doesn't go for this and they settle on going to Bordeaux but on the ship Fogg convinces the shiphands to lock up the captain and take course for Liverpool. But they run out of coal and the engineer says they had enough to get to Bordeaux but not Liverpool. London is closer to Bordeaux so they may still have had to burn some beds for fuel but still seems like London or a southern port would have been a better bet still. The only reason I can think of is Verne wanted to include the very fast mail boat from Dublin to Liverpool and the whole ending with Fogg thinking he's late. Still bothersome to me. Let me know if there may be a more legitimate reason for Fogg to keep his Liverpool route.