My modern expectations interpret this antique tale as dry.
I must admit that the three star rating is simply due to the fact that today’s author’s stand on the shoulders of literary giants, who have already shown that balancing narrative with imagery and dialogue makes a story that pulls readers in. First published in 1741, it has earned comparisons to Jonathan Swift's contemporaneous fantasy, Gulliver's Travels. The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground is a classic in speculative fiction and was the first fully realized novel set underground in a hollow earth. Brave, inquisitive, and greedy, Klim faces many challenges, the greatest of which are his own temptations. In an epic journey, Klim visits countries led by sentient and contemplative trees, a kingdom of intelligent apes preoccupied with fashion and change, a land whose inhabitants don't speak out of their mouths, neighboring countries of birds locked in an eternal war, and a land where string basses talk musically to one another. Niels Klim discovers worlds within our own-exotic civilizations and fabulous creatures scattered across the underside of the earth's crust and, at the earth's center, a small, inhabited planet orbiting around a miniature sun. Fantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a penniless Norwegian student after he plunges into a bottomless hole in a cave.
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