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jaepingsu 's review for:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
This is a hard on to decide on a rating for and to really pin down my feelings about it. On one hand, it gets incredibly stuffy and overly obsessed with describing in great detail the various species of sea life encountered to the point where I admittedly did some skimming to get past the pages and pages of things that I just didn't care about (glad I read this and didn't listen to it so I could do this!). On the other hand, the mysteries of the Nautilus and Captain Nemo were pretty fascinating and the themes presenting in here I really enjoyed!
Clearly Verne did a ton of research and loved his engineering and marine biology. The ways the Nautilus works are pretty painstakingly described, and that was definitely more interesting than pages upon pages of "and then we saw this fish."
I was also pretty disappointed in the conclusion to the mystery of Captain Nemo. I was expecting some kind of pay off but ultimately this didn't feel hugely rewarding in that aspect. I'm glad I picked it up but I'm also glad to have finished it and not have that feeling of "oh god is there going to be another fish passage?" each time I pick up my e-reader.
Clearly Verne did a ton of research and loved his engineering and marine biology. The ways the Nautilus works are pretty painstakingly described, and that was definitely more interesting than pages upon pages of "and then we saw this fish."
I was also pretty disappointed in the conclusion to the mystery of Captain Nemo. I was expecting some kind of pay off but ultimately this didn't feel hugely rewarding in that aspect. I'm glad I picked it up but I'm also glad to have finished it and not have that feeling of "oh god is there going to be another fish passage?" each time I pick up my e-reader.