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I'm tempted to give this one star but because there were some parts that I liked and the overall story was good (with the exception of the fantastical painting), I'm bumping it up to a two. In my opinion, it could have done without all the hocus-pocus of the magic painting and the world within it. All in all, I found it to be somewhat silly and just too far-fetched for my liking.

So bearing in mind when this book was written and it being one of the earliest science fiction novels it was still just ok. The adventure of course is completely unrealistic, building a giant gun and shooting a cannonball with people inside of it to the moon, mmmhmm. The part that really kept it low in rating for me though was the amount of detailed information about the moon, and what was known to be facts/theories in the current scientific literature. It was as if Verne was trying to convince everyone that he had thoroughly research the subject and work ALLLL of his research into the book. The adventure was almost secondary to the descriptions of the moons surface and the calculations to prove the cannon could indeed shoot an object to the moon. I loved Verne's Round the World in 80 days and Journey to the Center of the Earth where the adventure was the key. This one just felt tedious. Very glad to be done reading it.