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How can humans survive and prosper 1,500 feet below the earth's surface? Jules Verne successfully weaves a dark yet magnificent story into this equally dark world. The story takes place in a revived and now prosperous coal mine. Amazingly, life in the mine has everything that one desires, including a lake, fish and attractive homes. Yet there lurks an evil presence. Unexplainable, malicious, and life-threatening occurrences begin. But why? The evil force could destroy the underground world and everyone in it!©2000 Tantor Media Incorporated Action & Adventure Fiction Adventure Classics Science Fiction Romance Fantasy

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The Underground City, also known as The Black Indies, The Child of the Cavern, and other titles, is an adventure novel of the extraordinary by the French fabulist, Jules Verne. Set in Scotland in the Victorian age, the novel stars James Starr, a venerable member of the academy, who sets off to explore a long-closed mine in the middle of Scotland. What he finds there is shocking.

Performed in a grave, mysterious style by Jon Bolen, Starr’s journey reveals an entire family living far beneath daylight, deep in the abandoned mine. But his discoveries do not end there. Soon he finds beautiful homes, a fishing lake, young lovers, and presence that may be evil wrought pure. This audiobook is best enjoyed above the Earth’s surface.
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Not my favorite Verne story, but it's okay. The voice actor was the real issue. Very distracting. It felt like this was an American both making fun of the Scottish accent, think lucky charms, and trying out a bad British one. They even blended at times. I normally like it when they adopt the real accents of the characters, but this time he should have stuck with his native accent.

It's okay.

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This was an enjoyable reading about a coal mine located near Edinburgh, Scotland. Having traveled extensively throughout Scotland, I was saddened to hear the narrator consistently mispronounce the word Edinburgh using instead the American rendering of Edinburg. Other than this mispronunciation, the story line proved to be most intriguing. I would recommend this book to others.

Suspensful story line

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I expected something completely different than what I got. The story at times was interesting but not too often. The dialogue was also strange.

The narrator's voice was nasally and made it hard to understand some of the conversations. It also made the already strange dialogues even more strange with how he would draw out names or say certain words (Harry sounds like Hai-wee). I was glad when this book was over. I won't be revisiting it.

Not What I Expected

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Listened to this bk via Audible in the hopes of staying awake while driving. It was NOT very helpful. The reader’s voice drones on. Unfortunately, the details/explanations of the story are repeated a few times throughout the book & I realized I could’ve started the bk halfway through & spared myself the monotony of the entire bk & would’ve still known the plot. It did make it nice though, when I dozed off a few times my husband could sum up pretty quickly what I’d missed. Maybe older people might enjoy, 65+, possibly??

A classic but I didn’t care for it

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I really enjoyed the story - the reader is good but not great (intonation and beginnings/ endings could have been better).

Great story

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