I enjoyed pretty much all movie/TV versions of his book ‘Around the world in 80 days’ , but unfortunately never got to reading the book.
He shaped my childhood imagination
Great man of science fiction. Gotta love his adventures, no matter you’re a child or an adult. Besides Tolkien, one of the persons I wish I could have met alive.
Grew up with his books – they’re perfect for children around 10 to 13 that just started to explore the world around them. Beautiful books, this author impacted my childhood (and probably those of millions) in a substantial way.
His books helped generations of children dream and imagine wonderful and exotic things, places, characters. Reading his books were like a rite of passage, together with Alexandre Dumas
Pretty much the grandfather of science fiction, and to this day a very enjoyable read. Almost makes me wish we still had the speculative wonder about emerging technologies before they all seem to go down a dystopic path.
Have lots of his books I got as a kid 50 years ago in a bad shape because I read them so often.
I took a Verne book with me during my military service. So many memories of reading it during my breaks. Fantastic writer with an impressive imagination.
I feel like there is such a vast number of literature that will never be experienced by the comming generations as everything is taking digital form. Verne, Asimov, C.Clarke, Herbert…Talk about sci-fi paradise.. And those are only a few main stream/household names.
Edit. Had to include Ende as well. I re-read The never ending story few years back. Grown ass man reading a kids books. I was absolutely absorbed.
A very merry unbirthday to him!
I absolutely devoured his books as a child, so many great memories.
It’s only later that I noticed how his description of Germans changed after the war of 1870. Whereas the protagonists in “Journey to the center of the earth” (1864) are somewhat goofy and likeable, the mad racist professor in “The Begum’s Fortune” (1879) shows a bitter Verne.
Even later, I learned that he was very quick to catch trendy topics (like the gothic novel “The Carpathian Castle” or the idea of shipwreck survivors creating a society on a remote island in “The Mysterious Island”).
It ‘s interesting to know that this man was fond of theater plays and Victor Hugo. So, he first wrote countless plays and small novels. The shift was due to a publisher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jules_Hetzel who received Verne ‘s text about one of his trip. Hetzel told him that the text to be corrected since he wanted Science to be popularized through the work of writers. And so, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon was born.
His books are just wonderful. Great stories that just set the scene for your imagination.
The Mysterious Island is my favourite.
he has a very strange expression on his face. how would you describe that? a kind of thankful despair?
Missing my leather bound decorated with gold leaf copy of Journey to the Center of the Earth…
A true visionary.
I’ve read so many of his books when I was a kid, my mother always appreciated his work and transmitted her love to me for Verne and so many other writers work, can’t thank her enough for that, good memories.
Fun fact: he originally intended for Captain Nemo to be a Polish fighter from the January Uprising, but his publisher didn’t want to lose the Russian market so he asked him nicely to make Nemo an anti-British fighter instead (since the Brits apparently didn’t have such a stick up their rectum as to ban a book because it glorified their political enemies). There are still some remnants of a Polish Nemo – for example, there’s a portrait of Kościuszko onboard the Nautilus.
In Back to the Future part 3, Doc’s children are called Jules and Verne as a homage to him.
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I enjoyed pretty much all movie/TV versions of his book ‘Around the world in 80 days’ , but unfortunately never got to reading the book.
He shaped my childhood imagination
Great man of science fiction. Gotta love his adventures, no matter you’re a child or an adult. Besides Tolkien, one of the persons I wish I could have met alive.
Grew up with his books – they’re perfect for children around 10 to 13 that just started to explore the world around them. Beautiful books, this author impacted my childhood (and probably those of millions) in a substantial way.
His books helped generations of children dream and imagine wonderful and exotic things, places, characters. Reading his books were like a rite of passage, together with Alexandre Dumas
Pretty much the grandfather of science fiction, and to this day a very enjoyable read. Almost makes me wish we still had the speculative wonder about emerging technologies before they all seem to go down a dystopic path.
Have lots of his books I got as a kid 50 years ago in a bad shape because I read them so often.
I took a Verne book with me during my military service. So many memories of reading it during my breaks. Fantastic writer with an impressive imagination.
I feel like there is such a vast number of literature that will never be experienced by the comming generations as everything is taking digital form. Verne, Asimov, C.Clarke, Herbert…Talk about sci-fi paradise.. And those are only a few main stream/household names.
Edit. Had to include Ende as well. I re-read The never ending story few years back. Grown ass man reading a kids books. I was absolutely absorbed.
A very merry unbirthday to him!
I absolutely devoured his books as a child, so many great memories.
It’s only later that I noticed how his description of Germans changed after the war of 1870. Whereas the protagonists in “Journey to the center of the earth” (1864) are somewhat goofy and likeable, the mad racist professor in “The Begum’s Fortune” (1879) shows a bitter Verne.
Even later, I learned that he was very quick to catch trendy topics (like the gothic novel “The Carpathian Castle” or the idea of shipwreck survivors creating a society on a remote island in “The Mysterious Island”).
It ‘s interesting to know that this man was fond of theater plays and Victor Hugo. So, he first wrote countless plays and small novels. The shift was due to a publisher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jules_Hetzel who received Verne ‘s text about one of his trip. Hetzel told him that the text to be corrected since he wanted Science to be popularized through the work of writers. And so, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon was born.
His books are just wonderful. Great stories that just set the scene for your imagination.
The Mysterious Island is my favourite.
he has a very strange expression on his face. how would you describe that? a kind of thankful despair?
Missing my leather bound decorated with gold leaf copy of Journey to the Center of the Earth…
A true visionary.
I’ve read so many of his books when I was a kid, my mother always appreciated his work and transmitted her love to me for Verne and so many other writers work, can’t thank her enough for that, good memories.
Fun fact: he originally intended for Captain Nemo to be a Polish fighter from the January Uprising, but his publisher didn’t want to lose the Russian market so he asked him nicely to make Nemo an anti-British fighter instead (since the Brits apparently didn’t have such a stick up their rectum as to ban a book because it glorified their political enemies). There are still some remnants of a Polish Nemo – for example, there’s a portrait of Kościuszko onboard the Nautilus.
In Back to the Future part 3, Doc’s children are called Jules and Verne as a homage to him.