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Originally Posted by gmw
While I enjoyed the first, with the humour helping to break up more geeky parts, I found this second part quite hard work.
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Yes, I can understand that reaction. As I say in my review, this one is not the easiest to enjoy. Possibly if you had read it before the space age, the sense of wonder of it would have compensated better for the limited agency of the characters and all the talk about astronomy.
Curiously, for the same reason it is so interesting (the early science-fiction element), it's also one of Verne's novels that have aged worst. An adventure novel is always an adventure novel, and we don't care the technology is different because it's set in the 19th century, but here we know what's actually on the Moon and how space travel actually works.