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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

Start date: July 1, 2019

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Jun 15, 2020 midnightfaerie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, literature, science-fiction

Meh.

I understand that when this was written it was the exciting, suspenseful, story of the day, but I'm just not sure it holds up today. My kids (12 yr old and twin 9 yr olds) didn't like it at all, and I'm not sure I blame them. I'm already not a huge fan of science fiction but am willing to give it a try if it gets high praise or is deemed a classic. I enjoyed the story and the scientific explanations, although I have to admit I was hoping the creature was an animal instead of a boat. But I d ...more

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Jul 29, 2020 Jamie rated it liked it · review of another edition

I don’t know if Verne was a ichthyologist or studied cetaceans before he wrote this novel or if he spent an exorbitant amount of time studying zoophytes and aquatic genus but yikes. This book was full of names of different species of fish, coral, whales and every other sea creature imaginable. I felt it was less like a adventure with Captain Nemo and more like a science book. It was hard to read these detailed descriptions of fish and coral in the depths of the ocean when you don’t know what the ...more

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