Mikey Strogonoff!! It's Jules Verne's not well known but still pretty good book. If Jules Verne were Billy Joel it would be his Nylon Curtain and in keeping with the ancient tradition of having a book that's similar to Nylon Curtain, Strogey begins with a vivid description of an industry town. To be clear when I say "vivid description" I mean that mr verne just goes down a list of every ethnicity in the caucuses. It reads like a cringey anthropology paper and it's cool that he put research into this book but also since this book was written years ago, I think it feels a bit outdated. And lets just say that, as our protagonist mike stroganoff travels more eastward, his depictions of people become... less charitable. But still this is fun. It feels like a proto heart of darkness where its less that war is bad and more that the bad guys suck. Honestly it took me longer than I thought to read. It shouldn't have taken me 20 days tbh. Ok im done bye lol.

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Mikey Strogonoff!! It's Jules Verne's not well known but still pretty good book. If Jules Verne were Billy Joel it would be his Nylon Curtain and in keeping with the ancient tradition of having a book that's similar to Nylon Curtain, Strogey begins with a vivid description of an industry town. To be clear when I say "vivid description" I mean that mr verne just goes down a list of every ethnicity in the caucuses. It reads like a cringey anthropology paper and it's cool that he put research into this book but also since this book was written years ago, I think it feels a bit outdated. And lets just say that, as our protagonist mike stroganoff travels more eastward, his depictions of people become... less charitable. But still this is fun. It feels like a proto heart of darkness where its less that war is bad and more that the bad guys suck. Honestly it took me longer than I thought to read. It shouldn't have taken me 20 days tbh. Ok im done bye lol.

Un corte en las comunicaciones por una invasión hace que el único medio de enviar ordenes sea a través del Correo del Zar, Miguel Strogoff deberá anteponer su deber a todo.

Entretenida, amena e interesante. Repasando los clásicos me sorprende las diferencias entre los libros y las películas que me habían marcado desde joven, todo un redescubriendo.

Pareil que l'autre j'ai dû le lire pour les cours mais je l'ai de loin préféré aux autres livres de Jules Verne. Je n'ai pas encore eu ma note donc elle n'a pas impacter l'avis

Julio Verne es una piedra fundamental en la base de mi afición a la lectura, sin sus libros mi infancia y juventud no hubiesen sido lo mismo. Pero lo cierto es que al revisitarlos en mi madurez, no terminan de llenarme. A diferencia de Dumas o Stevenson que me ofrecen más de lo que supe leer entonces, Verne me da lo mismo: Héroes sin mácula, villanos traidores, mujeres abnegadas, un alivio cómico francés y un viaje lleno de peligros. Todo convencioralmente decimonónico y unidimensional. Por lo demás, Miguel Strogoff es mucho mejor que [b:Aventura en el transasiático|56059897|Aventura en el transasiático|Jules Verne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1606479649l/56059897._SY75_.jpg|87318669] pero me aconseja evitar el revisitar mis amados [b:20.000 leguas de viaje submarino|17976693|20.000 leguas de viaje submarino|Jules Verne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1487262417l/17976693._SX50_.jpg|1112418], [b:La isla misteriosa|15816069|La isla misteriosa|Jules Verne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344590520l/15816069._SY75_.jpg|1167706] o [b:Los hijos del Capitán Grant|66233|Los hijos del Capitán Grant|Jules Verne|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348671637l/66233._SX50_.jpg|2459522] por miedo a empañar los buenos recuerdos.

Proof that, even without the sci-, Jules Verne wrote some pretty fine -fi. Although "Michael Strogoff" comes off, perhaps, a bit dated to the modern reader, it's hard to find much at fault in this bracing tale of Czarist Russia. Without giving anything away, Verne should be lauded for his willingness to weave real tragedy, hardship, and ugliness into his story. This uncompromising ethos adds pungent spice to a story which might have been rendered in far more saccharine flavors. Verne keeps us on the edge of our seats right up until the very end. His pacing is particularly impeccable, an invaluable virtue when it comes to any story of action and adventure. Nor does Verne paint too strident a picture, deftly weaving both comic relief and a romantic sub-plot into this truly compelling, if lesser-know, work. I was skeptical going in, but I would urge fans of Jules Verne to track down this overlooked gem.