I don’t know for whom he wrote, but now, if I haven’t read Verne before the age of 17, think, I’m late: it’s impossible to read it later. Well, you can’t read it again – you will ruin the whole impression.

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Depending on who, many remain romantic in the soul until old age and quietly read and read with pleasure all adventure novels, not only Verne. I read Alfred Sklarsky at 30 with pleasure, and after this book I had half of the men at work. Even a couple of women.