Paris in the 20th Century

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1. anthkApr 2022
   Read about Paris in the 20th Century, by Jules Verne. Yes, that one.

   A book written 125 years ago.

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2. 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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3. InclinedPlaneJun 2013
   I highly recommend people who find 1984 and Brave New World interesting also read Jules Verne's lost novel "Paris in the 20th Century". It's dystopian in an entirely different way. It talks not about the extremes of state-based censorship from 1984 or of the indifference of the blissed-out citizens of Brave New World but the far more realistic likelihood of rampant self-censorship. Of culture which willingly bends itself to what amounts to the same thing as oppression.
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