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I'm sorry, but I'm not going to touch this book with a bargepole (was Review of new book)

From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:27:11 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

BlankI should explain that I was introduced to Jules Verne in the 1980's,
thanks to the BRB International production "Around the World with Willy Fog"
and therefore had an assumption prior to reading the proper book (which I
still thank Bill for sending to me) that Mr. Fogg was a fine, upstanding
English gentlemen which indeed the book proved.



However, I was slightly dismayed to read in the same book William's
insistence that (and I am quoting here):

"The clearly legible '- Face isn't the only expressive organ' is also vital.
It's explicit sexual innunedo declares that the mind's composition is not in
the face, that Fogg's imperturability conceals the strongest impulses and
that his fate will ultimately be determined by his libido"

I mean look at him for pete's sake. How can anyone with that expression
possibly be more "libido" than Tom Jones??? This is why I think that the
main reason these books are produced are simply to cash in on the money that
started with the Da Vinci Code. I would like to finish my defence of Mr.
Fogg with the following quote from Trial by Jury by Gilbert and Sullivan

"The rich attorney my character high tried vainly to disparage!"

And if any does seek to disparage Mr. Fogg's character, they'll have me to
answer to!

Harry Hayfield (Supporter for Mr. Fogg)

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