"Die 7 Revolutionen der Medizin" und "From the Earth to the Moon" abgeschlossen.

Stand: [5/12]

Zu ersterem werd ich mich mal nicht sonderlich äußern. Erstens bin ich kein Fachmann im Bereich Medizin und zweiten hab ich keine Lust sonderlich viel über ein Buch zu reden das ich kinda sorta aufgezwungen bekommen habe.

Bei letzterem pulle ich aber mal den selben Stunt wie bei Moby Dick :P

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In regards to stories written by Jules Verne there are two that I've already experienced. I've watched "In 80 days around the World" on TV a long time ago. "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" I've read last year. The former I've forgotten most of, but as I have it in book form I will pick it up in not too long. The latter on the other hand is an excellent book that I definitively recommend reading! I've been meaning to continue reading more of Jules Verne's stories so after finishing Moby Dick I decided to start with "From the Earth to the Moon".

Guns, Cannons, death and destruction. The US has been waging its war for independance for quite some time now. But alas! at last victory is attained, the US freed at last. No more need for guns or cannons, no more reasons to develop new weapons of destruction.
With these depressing thoughts in mind the members of the Gun Club of Baltimore now had to come to terms with the fact that their club might soon disband. However, in these trying times a wonder was about to happen.

A letter was sent to the members of the club. It was written by Barbicane, the president of the Gun Club, himself. He was organizing an assembly for he had an announcment in regards to the future of the club.
Barbicane's plans are revealed: to push the frontier of human society even further a cannon will be build. A cannon of obscene size that is meant to shoot a projectile to the moon. This is welcomed with great excitement and the plan to build it is set into motion, immediately.

But this will not be all, not by a long shot. Right after completion of the the massive columbiad a telegraph makes its way into Barbicane's hand.

"From the Earth to the Moon" is a rather short story. Its main focus revolves around the planning, logistics and building of the cannon and projectile as well as all the problems that come along with that. What materials to use? Where to set up the cannon? Where to get the financial support for all of this? Those and more questions are being tackled throughout the whole process.

All in all I enjoyed the story. I think in part this is also due to how the story ended. Without spoiling too much: the ending was kinda surprising but also kinda hilarious.
Though, while I did enjoy it, I don't think it gave me enough to make me want to reread it some later time.