Happy Birthday, Jules Verne

[filkertom]

Born on this date in 1828. The celebratory Google logo is fantastic. Play with the joystick, or, if you have a handheld device, tilt the screen.

Your favorite Verne book? Mine is Around The World In 80 Days.

Comments

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, without a doubt. My Dad introduced me to that about the same time as Mom introduced me to Louisa May Alcott. It's obvious that the dichotomy there made a huge impact.

[sveethot.livejournal.com]

Toss up between Journey to the Center of the Earth or Around the World in 80 Days. As I child I was taken to see the David Niven movie version and had a cat named Passepartou.

[renquestor.livejournal.com]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I've read that book dozens of times and it never gets old. The sheer detail in every aspect of it just blows me away.

BTW, Nemo rocks.

[dave-ifversen.livejournal.com]

It's a toss-up between 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. Although, From the Earth to the Moon was also pretty good...

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Mysterious Island, I think.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

20K, All The Way

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

[danceswithlife]

BTW...with the Google tribute if you increase the font size on the browser tab you get a better view of the figures through the submarine windows. At a certain large size you start to lose a little clarity, but it is nice to see larger figures.