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RE: Rating

From: Christian Sánchez <chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:46:18 -0300
To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

>Bravo, Christian!
>At one time I had thought of initiating a survey of the forum members, as to
>the greatest and least of
>Verne's titles; in fact rating them all as you have done, even though we
>have to muddle through some suspect translations.

I, as a Spanish-speaking reader, am lucky, because every book by Verne has been translated into Spanish, and the translations are good, a thing that every English reader will envy.

>This can be a fun activity on the forum.
>I too feel as you evidently do, that Survivors of the Jonathan is a vastly
>underrated novel. I consider it
>one of Verne's best works, even if Michel may have written most of it!

I didn't know Survivors of the Jonathan was underrated; maybe I should read it again.

>I think you will find disagreement with some of your choices, particularly
>with underrating Robur and Master of the World,

I gave Robur only 1 star because it's a novel with the same structure that "20000 leagues" and the result is disappointing. I insist, it's bad, compared with "20000".

>and overrating Keraban.

Yes, maybe Keraban is overrated. That's because I read it in a special moment. I had discovered in the library of my secondary school (five years too late!) a collection of some twenty books by Verne, and the first of the ten novels I could read (novels that can be considered minor works) was Keraban.

>However, all in all, I am in 90% agreement with your ratings.


Regards,

Christian Sánchez
chvsanchez~at~arnet.com.ar
Rosario, Argentina

Received on Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 05:51:28 IDT

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