A review by protoman21
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

3.0

I made it 33 years on this Earth without reading this novel, and honestly, I could have lived out the rest of my days without reading it and have been perfectly happy. The story has a few interesting and exciting moments, but they are overwhelmingly outnumbered by boring descriptions of the sea. I'm sure there are marine biologists who would find this interesting, but the rest of us just don't need to read page after page of this stuff. There are so few characters in this story, so there is little human interactions to distract from the scientific mumbo jumbo. Now I see why this was never required reading for me in school.