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The Mysterious Island By Jules Verne Chapter 1 Are we rising again? No. On the contrary. Are we descending? Worse than that, captain! we are falling! For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast! There! the last sack is empty! Does the balloon rise? No! I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us! Overboard with every weight! . . . everything! Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865. Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year. The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, cov |
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Reviewer: fresch - 3/20/2008 19:25Subject: One of my favorite books! I remember seeing the 1961 movie as an end−of−term film at school. Later on, got the e−book on my Palm, and was very impressed with the detail of survival on Lincoln Island. Now, have listened to the audiobook, certainly one of my favorite books, I think this would be more valuable to a castaway than Robinson Crusoe would! |
Reviewer: FNH - 5/10/2008 21:23Subject: Free Audio, Review This is a true "classic". Adventure and survival play a large part in the story. The ship/balloon wrecked survivors start by scratching a survival but slowly start adding to their tools and building a life on the lost island. The story was a little dispointing for me, its well told but the series of happy/unlikely coincidences one on top of another, time after time stretched the possibilities just too far for my taste. I ended up coming out of the story telling experience and saying to myself, "oh not again". It's a long audio book and in places too long. I suspect that if you were to listen to it in an episodic, one chapter a week way, the story would come across better. Reading = 3/3 Production = 3/3 Story = 1/3 Total = 7/9 More of my reviews can be found at http://freeaudioreview.blogspot.com |
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Reviewer: Chapter&Verse - 7/1/2008 5:57 Subject: A Tour de Force! Well, at least that what it was called on Kevin Kelly's (WIRED magazine) Cool Tools site. After reading about it, I came here and found 111,000 other people had already investigated it. After listening, I vote "Aye!" This was a very enjoyable return to one of my all−time favorite stories. Verne set out to "one−up" the other castaway books: Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson. He dumped his cast on a desert island with absolutely nothing to start with. Another reviewer thought the sequence of events was unlikely. Well, once you get past the balloon floating from Virginia to the Pacific (lol!), these guys needed a little luck thrown their way to survive! And face it − if all the events were likely, would you be entertained?? This is a great story from one of the world's master storytellers. And oh! − the reader does a bang−up job! Thumbs up! |
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Reviewer: bfilipow - 5/18/2009 12:58 Subject: What a book! What a reader! Hats off to Mark. |
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