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I have to admit something kind of embarrassing here. I have never really given much thought to the title of this book. Also, there has never been much reason for me to use leagues as a unit of measurement. But, up until reading this book I always thought of the "Leagues Under the Sea" as the distance under the surface they go. But, actually, it is indicating a distance AROUND the world that they are travelling under the water. So, yeah . . . my face is a bit red!
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3.5 stars. This was a 5 star read for me for close to the first half and then I started to lose interest. It's an excellent concept to travel around the word beneath the sea and Verne had an imagination capable of capturing the future. I found it interesting and exciting for awhile. I can see why people love this but, once it started getting old for me it was a chore to read through it. I think many more would enjoy it if had been edited down a bit. No complaints with this edition from Barnes &
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This was my first time reading this book and I have to admit it was better than I expected. I knew there were places that the author would wander off into scientific explanations and I thought it might end up being dry and confusing, but instead, I found it pretty interesting, partly because it was neat to see what he envisioned about futuristic advanced science. It was also interesting just how little we knew about the ocean depths, but while we know a lot more now, the percentage of what we kn
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Jules Verne was at times a difficult author to read through. The unnecessary details were at times very exhausting. Yet, during action scenes it was fast paced and entrancing. I found the story imaginative, informative, and insightful, despite my struggle at times. Definitely a classic!
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