Various rantings on movies, books about movies, and other things to do with movies
Thursday, June 07, 2018
Book review - "Master of the World" (1904) by Jules Verne
Weird book. Like many a Verne novel it starts with strange sightings/things happening... a man investigates, Strock, he pokes around some places, he gets some letters warning him off, then discovers a mighty ship/aeroplane/sub driven by the Master of the World aka Robur from the previous novel (which Verne politely recaps). Just when you think it's getting good though, some lightning hits the ship, it crashes, Strock escapes and that's about it. What an anti-climax! The ship does have a cool name "The Terror".
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