Status Updates From Viaje al centro de la Tierra

I'm not liking the professor much.

I hope the collection of eider down doesn't hurt the ducks...

So, looks like Axel, our main character, is maybe 19-20 years old? Assuming it was set in the present day, that is. He says he was "not born until 19 years afterwards" when the Professor mentioned an 1825 visit from a peer.

I recently rewatched Brendan Fraser's Journey to the Center of the Earth, which made me realize that I still haven't read the book to this day. It wasn't in our reading list when I was in high school or college, so there's that. Let's see how this goes.

Help me, Tim Curry! This book is dryyyyy…