Journey to the center of the earth

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1. Paul-CraftNov 2023
   Not to mention Frankenstein and Journey to the Center of the Earth, both of which are science fiction classics. And then, of course, you leave out the entirety of 20th century science fiction.
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2. burkamanAug 2023
   > Verne tried to use only technologies that had actually been implemented.

   No he didn't. The technology to build the submarine he imagined had not been implemented. Additionally, a cannon that could fire humans into space had not been implemented in 1865 when he wrote From the Earth to the Moon, and the interior of volcanos and the Earth's core had not been explored when he wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth.

   I really think you're selling him short - he used cutting-edge scientific theories as inspiration for imaginative, speculative stories, he didn't limit himself to existing inventions. I have plenty of respect for Tom Clancy as well but they are very different writers with very different approaches.

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3. peoplefromibizaApr 2022
   > How does content consumption work then?

   simplified, there are two main branches:

   - those who consume everything, kinda like maximizing the investment or "it makes me company"

   - those who consume things that need to pass some kind filter

   generated content would (maybe) reward the first group, but without some very good hit they will probably go back to downloading stuff, but not the second.

   At least not yet and not in the foreseeable future.

   There's a difference between computer aided content and computer generated.

   Jurassic park wouldn't exist as it is without technology advancements, but the novel was already good.

   Another example by Crichton is WestWorld. The original was written and directed by Crichton himself in 1973, the original movie is great, the second chapter is good, the tv-show is visually astonishing, but after 2 seasons, I stopped watching it. The material taken from the first two movies had ended and nothing really interesting have come out after from the writers (IMO).

   Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a great book from 1864 and I honestly prefer the movie from 1959 than the its latest 3D incarnation from 2008.

   Not because older is better, but because the 1959 version is more centered around the story and it aged better.

   Probably because Indiana Jones hadn't come out yet and the director didn't try to imitate it.

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4. spacechild1Jun 2021
   My father had a big book shelf in his office room in our house which spanned two of the walls. As a kid I loved to browse the shelf and pick up different kinds of literature. I remember reading Jules Verne's “Journey to the Center of the Earth“ around the age of 10 and although it was a rather tough read, I was blown away.
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5. mynegationFeb 2020
   Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island" was how I got interested in tech around the age of 6. I devoured all of his books that I could find after that and it was my introduction to geology ("Journey to the Center of the Earth"), geography ("In search of the castaways", "Around the world in eighty days"), oceanology ("Twenty thousand leagues under the sea"), Astronautics ("From the Earth to the Moon", "Around the moon"), dystopian/utopian world building ("The Begum's fortune") and so on and so forth.

   EDIT: fixed the name of the book, thank you bradyd.

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6. abnryFeb 2020
   I still get goosebumps remembering the scene in "journey to the center of the earth" when they see a human figure lumbering across the cavern.

   Paris in the 20th century was also really cool to read. Almost every Jules Verne book has this unbridled optimism (especially pronounced in the American characters). But this book is dark. I kinda liked it for that. After reading so many Jules Verne books as a teenager, they all started to feel the same.

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