It’s a little slow and dated but it grew on me as it progressed until I was invested enough in Phileas Fogg and his adventure that I was pleased with the ending. Let's be honest, the adventure doesn't hold up the way it would have back in the day. A person trying to catch a train doesn't build excitement and tension.

A marvelous adventure!

En realidad es un 3.5
Leer este libro fue todo una experiencia, como se sabe por el título, nos narra la vida de una persona que por una apuesta tiene que dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días, este persona es un hombre millonario que junto con su nuevo sirviente emprende el viaje esperando ganar y si esto no sucede se quedara en la ruina porque en la apuesta esta en juego la mitad de su fortuna y la otra mitad la tendrá que gastar en en viaje.
Este libro va mucho más allá del viaje, va de las travesías que tiene que pasar, de la incertidumbre de que si va a llegar o no, de el amor, de lo que uno consigue en el viaje, de las ganancias y las pérdidas, de la calidad de ser humano que uno es, de todo eso y más nos habla La vuelta al mundo en 80 días.
La lectura es ligera y a la vez pesada, en algunas partes las páginas se me iban volando en otras se me hacia muy complicado leerlo pero en general es un libro que si le das el tiempo suficiente lo disfrutarás.
La precisión del viaje es increíble, Julio Verne realmente tenia planeado cada punto que tenia que recorrer nuestro protagonista, das la vuelta al mundo tu también porque la descripción de los lugares es tan increíble que sientes como si estuvieras ahí, por eso leer este libro es una experiencia.
Me gustó bastante este libro solo que en algunas partes me llegaba a aburrir pero el final no me decepcionó ni tantito.

Meh. The voice of the audiobook as kind of terrible which detracted from the book. It was like a snobby British person from the 1800s...and it was hard to understand. There was less adventure than I expected and, is the case for many older books (Sherlock Holmes for example) is pretty racist. Anyone who isn't British is basically an idiot/savage...especially if they aren't white. Aouda may be the one exception (but of course she is in love with Fogg and it is pointed out on numerous occasions how well she speaks English and how she has been educated in the "British" way). Poor Passepartout, Fogg's newly hired French valet, seemed especially inept (which was odd since Verne is himself French and I'd think he'd be a little more clever)

****Spoiler Alert****
Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his mates that he can make it around the world in 80 days. He takes his valet with him. They are followed by Fix, a Scotland Yard detective who thinks he's a bank robber taking off with the money under the "traveling the world" guise. Of course they meet a number of obstacles along the way. In India they pick up Aouda who they save from being sacrificed (due to the death of her husband) and she accompanies them on the rest of the journey. They miss a ship because Fix gets Passepartout drunk. In the US their train is attacked by savages and Passepartout is taken hostage. Of course Fogg, ever the hero, saves him. They arrive 5 minutes late and Fogg gives up. The next day him and Aouda go to get married and realize they gained a day due to the international date line...and in fact were a day early. He wins the bet. Finds love. Blah, blah, blah.

Just OK. Worth a read if you're super into that kind of thing, but hard to stomach the ethnocentricism.

Excellent!