Customer Reviews
Gripping stuff - By: John Hopper, 26 Sep 2008 
This is a re-read. It is a very good adventure, one of his best, maintaining a real sense of threat & suffocating claustrophobia under the ground. There are some internal inconsistenciesin dates & timings which would probably not get past a modern editor. Good stuff.
short but not sweet - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 06 Jul 2008 
Axel Lindenbrock's uncle, Professor Otto Lindenbrock, has found a piece of paper writtenin Old Icelandic. Axel shortly manages to make sense of it, & it leads him & his uncle to Iceland to an extinct volcano called Sneffells. There, they go down into its crater with the help of an escort named Hans Bjelke,in hope to get to the centre of the earth! They will face hunger, thirst, & tiredness, but odd Professor Lindenbrock will not give up until he is at the earth's core...or until he is dead!
This is not the whole story but only a shortened version that takes only about 40 minutes to read if you do not want to read the whole story or you want to tell a friend about the book.
Great book, Wrong description! - By: M. Dasani, 03 Jul 2008 
The book is fantastic, & if a real review is wanted, then read one of the other ones. I'm just here to say that the book is not hardcover as it statesin the product description, & is one of those crappy recycled green covers!
Deserved classic- science fiction with character - By: Mr. Stuart Bruce, 21 Oct 2007 As well as being the gripping high-adventure story that other reviewers have written about, when I re-read this novel recently I was struck by another side to the story that I hadn't noticed before- it reads, especially at the beginning of the book, as a satire. Verne is not content with helping to invent science fictionin terms of the science- some of which is consciously out-of-date even as Verne writes it, as he explains away science facts such as why inside the Earth's core is not flesh-meltingly hotin a manner not dissimilar to those bits of Star Trek where they tell you how the teleport works. In addition to the science, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth has character. Verne inventsin this story the very concept of the mad scientist,in this case Professor Lidenbrock, who struggles to teach coherently at a German university & who is sent on a wild goose chase to Iceland because of one scrap of paper foundin a library book. The interplay between our narrator Axel, his mad professor uncle & the reliable but non-verbal Icelandic guide Hans has things to say about the self-importance of science as well as about class & social standing. The science of this book is horrendously flawed but I believe it's the strength of character as well as Verne's fantastically imagined underground worlds that makes this novel not an out-dated joke but deservedly a classic.
4 stars - By: S. Hayes, 05 Jul 2007 Verne captures real drama & human responsein this fictitious masterpiece.It's a book for those who like the somewhat sureal adventure story. The plot thickens as the book progresses & i've read it twicein very different circumstances leading me to give it 4 stars. Firstly i read it one summer holidayin one big reading session as i really couldn't put it down, it was magic. The second time i read it on the bus on the way to work & found that having to read it on & off i didn't enjoyit nearly as much & found it hard to get back into. Not a book to read on & off from night to nightin bed even but great if you've got a few hours to kill & you want to make the very mos of them.great book.
