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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

Jules Verne

Start date: January 1, 2021

Finish date: January 31, 2021

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Jan 24, 2021 Matthew rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, sci-fi, audible, completist-book-club, classic, 2021

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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Feb 07, 2021 Tara rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, science-fiction

I really wanted to like this more than I did, given its high esteem as a classic. There were certainly elements to it that were interesting, but overall I found it dry and boring. Perhaps this could be chalked up to the fact that its a translation, and/or the time period when it was written. Perhaps given the fact that the narrative is written from the perspective of a scientific man, it is overly technical in its verbiage. But whatever the reason, I found this book to be a bit of a slog and a d ...more

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