Title: A xenofobic book to avoid
Product review: The only merit of the book are Verne's technological prophecies whichat times are very accurate. For the rest, this is a very bad book.Worse than bad, it's xenofobic: Anything non-French is looked down upon.The racial arguments are nauseating: it's like reading nazi propeganda.The author goes so far to glorify war, to long for the days that you couldkill a man in duel. All about the so-great French honour. Next to that,the story itself is empty. It's mainly a summation of all the 'great Frenchauthors', nothing more. This book discussed me. Avoid it if you do notbelieve in the supremecy of pure French blood. Today, such a novel wouldbe considered fundamentalistic, and un-fit for publication.To conclude: Verne's publisher was right no the publish this. It's a shamethat the modern day publisher did.
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