R2. Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum (The Begum's Fortune) - Jules Verne [Greek]
I had only read that once or twice, years ago, and I barely remembered what happened in the book. Of course, some things started coming back to me as I read, some others I guessed thanks to being too familiar with the author (and some of the typical literary clichés), but overall I enjoyed a fresh read.
As is the case with most of Verne's books, there was an intriguing plot and a very inventive fantastic world. There's an obvious bias against Germans in the book (it was written after the Franco-Prussian war), which could be annoying, but then you realize a German with ideas similar to Herr Schultze's ones from the book really came forward less than 60 years after its publication, and it becomes creepily prophetic instead.
