Ok so I am skipping again a bit. I don't remember how I ended up reading this one - it was on the list, formally for what letter I don't remember, Ill check at a later date. In any case, I actually finished this book at least a month ago, and am just now updating.
Around the World in Eighty Days was a fun book that read really fast. This is in mind definitely an "adventure" book, in that the fun parts of the book are the crazy escapades the characters take on, not the characters themselves. That's also the drawback of this book, you don't get to know the characters very well and I tend to enjoy character driven plots more myself.
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The whole point of the book, the journey around the world, was taken up on a bet, which seemed somewhat implausible and a very bored rich white male thing, though I did like the balancing of the attitude of the protagonist "just getting it done" with all of the things that accidentally come up to disrupt the journey that other characters throw into the mix. I especially enjoyed the detective, Fix, who follows them for most of the journey. Ok, I don't want to give too much away, but its a fun little read.
