All Around the Moon

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Chris Harris-Beechey

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve." Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. In All Around the Moon three space travelers are conversing about science and mathematics. They decide to alter the course of their projectile, which leads to unanticipated results.

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An odd adaptation

Lots of mispronounced words. But the audio version is crippled by being arbitrarily chopped up into 258 chapters! (Compared to the written work’s 25.) Makes it impossible to find your place when switching back and forth between print and audio. I haven’t seen this is any other audiobook.

so boring hard to listen to

This book is a part 2 to From the Earth to the Moon and chronicles the travelers in the projectile. Three men, 2 dogs, and some chickens. There is a lot of conversations and scientific talk. Another example of Verne proving he's the smartest man in the room. Annoyingly so. Lots of technical talk and "look what I know" stuff. One dog dies, and the other is never spoken of again. The narration is terrible. The narrator is terrible at doing the different voices and is very annoying to listen to. At over 11 hours, this was a chore to get through. The last hour and a half are good.