From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
Read by LibriVox Volunteers





From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. (Summary from Wikipedia)
(4 hr 38 min)Chapters
Reviews





If you do not know this is part 1 of 2. You need to read Part 2 also. It is called,"Around the Moon"
Great story





Slicktrick
Great story. Very well read by the volunteers. However chapter 25 the reader sounds like they are chewing gum, very irritating.





Good reading, but uninspiring book. Jules Verne truly is a master of the anticlimax. His novels rattle on with great pace and then jusy stop. It's as if gets bored, or doesn't know how to end the story, so just stops. Don't get me wrong: some of his novels are great. 20k Leagues and Journey to the Centre of the Earth are wonderful, but they also have very quick and anticlimatic endings.
NOT BAD





Avid Listener
But not great, either. Verne seems to take more side trips than in most of his novels. The story is, however, interesting in its approach to the launching of a space vehicle. I wonder if any of our space scientists even considered a cannon-like tube to aid in the initial direction of spacecrafts.
reader needs to project his voice





Avid listener but gave up after 2 chapters as the reader sounded like he was trying to read it quietly in a room as not to be heard by someone... greatly annoying as this is the only version.





Kristopher
Great reading! Not a fan as much for Sci Fi so this isn't my favorite Jules Verne book. Dated of course but not necessarily bad knowing what we know today and for a laugh.





TMCRET
Good classic story. A little slow in areas. Some readers need to retire.





Great story, but sometimes my eyes glazed over with the copious detail.