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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Jules Verne : 4 of 5
6.15.2004 7:04 PM \| Link	I started reading this book a long, long time ago, soon after watching the classic Disney adaptation on DVD, but I enjoyed each moment with the book. It's been a long time since I've read a real science fiction/adventure novel, and it was a little difficult to get into Verne's style, which includes exasperating detail (most of it sounding completely scientific, covering the classification of every fish we meet on the journey!), but about a fourth of the way through I was used to it and hooked! I especially liked how so many events were recreated in the Submarine Voyage ride at Disneyland - the graveyard of lost ships, traveling under the polar icecap, finding the ruins of Atlantis, and of course, fighting the giant squid (which is more like a school of squid in the book). The first person style is really convincing and compelling, since the mysteries surrounding Captain Nemo (which means "nobody" in Latin, I found out) are shared both by the narrator and the reader. Each chapter discusses in geographical detail where they are and how many leagues they have travelled (and you know when they reach 20,000 the story is over!). Now I really want to read The Mysterious Island, which I visited at Toyko DisneySea! Labels: books


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