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Published Nov. 12, 2022 by Standard Ebooks.
A classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, this work is one of the most well-known subterranean fictions to this day. It inspired many similar works and adaptations. First published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre, it was quickly translated to English by several different publishers in the 1870s. The current edition was based on the translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson that was published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd. in 1877.
Our protagonist is Axel, whose overcautious and unadventurous spirit contrasts with that of his uncle Professor Otto Lidenbrock, an eccentric professor of geology. When Professor Lidenbrock obtains a mysterious runic-coded note in the manuscript of an Icelandic saga, he is determined to decipher it. Axel inadvertently solves the code and, much to his chagrin, discovers that it is a set of directions left by a sixteenth-century Icelandic alchemist to reach the …
A classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, this work is one of the most well-known subterranean fictions to this day. It inspired many similar works and adaptations. First published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre, it was quickly translated to English by several different publishers in the 1870s. The current edition was based on the translation by Frederick Amadeus Malleson that was published by Ward Lock & Co Ltd. in 1877.
Our protagonist is Axel, whose overcautious and unadventurous spirit contrasts with that of his uncle Professor Otto Lidenbrock, an eccentric professor of geology. When Professor Lidenbrock obtains a mysterious runic-coded note in the manuscript of an Icelandic saga, he is determined to decipher it. Axel inadvertently solves the code and, much to his chagrin, discovers that it is a set of directions left by a sixteenth-century Icelandic alchemist to reach the center of the earth via the volcano Snæfelljökull. Reluctantly, Axel joins his uncle on a trip to Iceland, and with the aid of a local guide, Hans, begins an adventure towards the center of the earth, where they will encounter giant mushrooms and insects, an island with an enormous geyser, and battle pre-historic reptiles. One of Verne’s most well-known works, this novel is a testament to Verne’s love of geology, science, and cryptography.
Get ready for a hike, it's pretty much all walking or boating around. Minecraft the book?
Verne front loads the racism:
Calls someone So-and-so the Jew;
Describes a sooty figurehead pipe as becoming a "negress";
References savages in South America and Africa.
But mostly just stereotypes an Icelander for the rest of the book.
The Tethered God: Punished for a Crime He Can't Remember by Barrie Condon was a book I knew I had to read as I've had a passion for Ancient Egypt since childhood. With a story that moves seamlessly from the 4th Dynasty Ancient Egypt during a time before the term Pharoah was used and modern day, Condon has written a book that will have you eagerly turning the page for more.
Egyptology and the concept of reincarnation plays heavily in the story as Khafre tries to understand just what he must have done to enter the Afterlife and instead, has his soul intered within a dog in a world he cannot truly understand. I love how visual the writing is both of an Egypt long forgotten but revered and its modern day equivalent so you, as the reader truly see this land through Khafre's eyes both as an arrogant member …
The Tethered God: Punished for a Crime He Can't Remember by Barrie Condon was a book I knew I had to read as I've had a passion for Ancient Egypt since childhood. With a story that moves seamlessly from the 4th Dynasty Ancient Egypt during a time before the term Pharoah was used and modern day, Condon has written a book that will have you eagerly turning the page for more.
Egyptology and the concept of reincarnation plays heavily in the story as Khafre tries to understand just what he must have done to enter the Afterlife and instead, has his soul intered within a dog in a world he cannot truly understand. I love how visual the writing is both of an Egypt long forgotten but revered and its modern day equivalent so you, as the reader truly see this land through Khafre's eyes both as an arrogant member of the Royal family, and a somewhat lost soul. The narration is one that has wit to it, and I loved Cordon's writing so much that I read and then re-read The Tethered God: Punished for a Crime He Can't Remember so I could fully appreciate the tale fully.
I think Khafre is a character you are supposed to hate but actually quite like because he's unafraid to be himself. Something I am sure most members of Ancient Egypt's vast and problematic dynasties will have been like as they balanced expectation over honour along with personal desire on its narrow blade. He's unapologetic over the way he acts, thinks and his beliefs though there are moments were it wavers due to preference but overall the one-mindedness I believe stems from the fact no one person is greater than Egypt herself, a concept no doubt ingrained in Khafre from birth.
I truly don't want to give spoilers for this book, I will say that there are moments were I wish I hadn't been eating when I ate, and that you do truly see Khafre grow as a character. That Condon has given us a tale I would love to see turned into something on the 'silver screen' and that if you love Egyptology, if you spent hours in museums looking at Mummies, and the finery of the Land of the Pharoahs, and its Gods, you will love The Tethered God: Punished for a Crime He Can't Remember.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/f-a-malleson.