I've not had much time to read recently, but I'm well into The Journey to the Centre if the Earth now... The translation sometimes needs a little puzzling, and, especially near the beginning, the translator often just used semi-colons between clauses rather than actually constructing more elegant sentences.
And the narrator, Axel, the professor's nephew, is one of the limpest, whiniest protagonists I've come across in a long time! He...