I remember seeing the 1961 movie as an end-of-term film at school. Later on, got the e-book on my Palm, and was very impressed with the detail of survival on Lincoln Island. Now, have listened to the audiobook, certainly one of my favorite books, I think this would be more valuable to a castaway than Robinson Crusoe would! One of my favorite books! fresch 2008-03-20 19:25:22 2008-03-20 19:25:22 5 This is a true "classic". Adventure and survival play a large part in the story. The ship/balloon wrecked survivors start by scratching a survival but slowly start adding to their tools and building a life on the lost island. The story was a little dispointing for me, its well told but the series of happy/unlikely coincidences one on top of another, time after time stretched the possibilities just too far for my taste. I ended up coming out of the story telling experience and saying to myself, "oh not again". It's a long audio book and in places too long. I suspect that if you were to listen to it in an episodic, one chapter a week way, the story would come across better. Reading = 3/3 Production = 3/3 Story = 1/3 Total = 7/9 More of my reviews can be found at http://freeaudioreview.blogspot.com Free Audio, Review FNH 2008-05-10 21:23:27 2008-05-10 21:23:27 4 Well, at least that what it was called on Kevin Kelly's (WIRED magazine) Cool Tools site. After reading about it, I came here and found 111,000 other people had already investigated it. After listening, I vote "Aye!" This was a very enjoyable return to one of my all-time favorite stories. Verne set out to "one-up" the other castaway books: Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson. He dumped his cast on a desert island with absolutely nothing to start with. Another reviewer thought the sequence of events was unlikely. Well, once you get past the balloon floating from Virginia to the Pacific (lol!), these guys needed a little luck thrown their way to survive! And face it - if all the events were likely, would you be entertained?? This is a great story from one of the world's master storytellers. And oh! - the reader does a bang-up job! Thumbs up! A Tour de Force! Chapter&Verse 2008-07-01 05:57:48 2008-07-01 05:57:48 5 Hats off to Mark. What a book! What a reader! bfilipow 2009-05-18 12:58:52 2009-05-18 12:58:52 5 4 4.75