Let me start by talking a little about the Professor. He's not character writing the story, but he's the one who wanted to go on the journey. He's a very learned man of science, but seems a little too eager to take all sorts of matters on faith. He took it on faith that the temperature wasn't going to get much hotter closer to the center of the Earth. He took it on faith that they would find plenty of fresh water under the Earth. Maybe he's just so knowledgeable that he knows what to expect, but I don't know how he could be. He never explains why he thinks the things he does. Since these things run counter to logic, or at least the logic of the narrator, some explanation would have been nice.
The book itself was fairly interesting through a good chunk of it. Not a lot happens for a long while, but I didn't really mind. It is a bit science heavy, particularly geology, which makes sense, since the characters are men of science. I took some geology in college, but a lot of the stuff still went way over my head. Toward the end of the book, it seemed like Jules Verne was running out of ideas, and didn't really have a resolution planned out. The last few chapters just made me think, "Really?"
If you're a science-y type person, then you might enjoy this book.
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