TITLE: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas AUTHOR: Jules Verne TRANSLATOR: William Butcher EDITION: Oxford World's Classics DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2009 (reissue) FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780199539277 ______________________________ Description: "French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks ...
It's cool how he used imagination and tried to keep things as scientific as possible. I'm sure this story inspired many after it. Merged review:It's cool how he used imagination and tried to keep things as scientific as possible. I'm sure this story inspired many after it.
“Under the seaUnder the seaWhen the sardineBegin the beguineIt's music to meWhat do they got? A lot of sandWe got a hot crustacean bandEach little clam hereknow how to jam hereUnder the sea”- Sebastian the groovy Caribbean CrabThe perfect soundtrack for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas really....
Once again my Classical Literature Bookclub has selected a book that I have been meaning to reread but have not been able to due to the multitude of other books on my to-read shelf (and also the fact that the copy that my Dad owns is back in Adelaide, along with the other Jules Verne books that I wo...
An interesting book. It has tremendous strengths and tremendous weaknesses. It is clearly hard science fiction. I think that this is not obvious to many people because so many of its predictions, such as the electric light, have come true. Like many hard science fiction books, it is also an adve...
How many fish can you stuff into a good work of fiction? A great many it seems! I found it very enjoying to follow along on this marvellous adventure under the sea.
I have loved Marie Sexton's books. In fact, her Coda series is one of my favorites, but this book...I have not liked it one bit, and since it has become a torture to try to continue, I'm letting it go as DNF.
This review can also be seen on my blog, Stumptown Books.Nothing new to be said about this novel, obviously, but I just finished it and I have a lot to say. I was in the mood for some classic science fiction and alighted upon this one, having read it when I was a kid, and curious to see how much I ...
Probably would have never touched this book had it not been for school. Still find it an okay read so far, although my version's about 436 pages and most of it is scientific description. Meh.
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