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Adventure, science, and a little bit of fantasy is what you'll find when you read this book. As it presents an imaginitave story it adds to the story by presenting scientific aspects. Although this often makes it a slightly dry read it adds substance to the fantasy. This is a brilliant, intelligent read that should be read by anyone with a passion for the classics.

i haven't read it but i love the movie ill have to read it

Though I will, even as an admitted lover of verbose and overdone language, admit it can be dry in some parts, the scenes described are fantastic in every sense of the word. Things that are literally impossible and which none of the movies do justice. There's a forest with no shadows. Everything is equally illuminated, and this affects everything in the forest. Can you imagine looking at someone's face and not having the nostrils, wrinkles and under the chin be any darker than the height of the nose and cheekbones? Crazy, imaginative stuff.

This book came into my life through one of my students, and I must say I just loved it!
I think Jules Vernes creates great characters, and I enjoyed the suspense and the tension along the story from the beginning to the end. I could finally understand the concept "show, don't tell" when I read the first two chapters and I just enjoyed the way in which characters showed their nature in the small details...

Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre, also translated under the titles A Journey to the Center of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.

One of Jules Verne's greatest books. He excels at making the scientifically improbable seem utterly believable and the adventures in this book are thrilling and full of suspense. I highly recommend it!

I enjoyed reading Journey to The Center of the Earth growing up. I have also enjoyed several of the movies that have been based on the book.

Jules Verne is a wonderful writer. He carries one along in the worlds that he creates. I love this book as well as the others he wrote. It has been said that his books gave seed to the inventions of our time such as the submarine and others.

Nice book

I read the book and I loved it. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I would like to.

I've actually travelled to the Snæfellsjökull peninsula. It's gorgeous and windswept and barren and so, so big and foreboding. Looking at it, it's easy to imagine all of the wondrous things Vernes describes because Snæfellsjökull itself is already so magical and alien.

Amazing book. Much better than the movie

I remember reading this when I was young. Very exciting and hard to put down. Lot's of drama and excitement!

I used to love Jules Verne so much as a kid that I ended up reading most of his books like Clipper of th eClouds and of course Around the world in Eighty Days.