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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
I'll be honest, I'm just a bit disappointed. I think this suffered from being so abridged, and then it had the rushed ending. But it had its really good parts, and the characters come through quite well.
There's a lot in this that I think inspired a lot of later works. I jokingly mentioned Stephen Maturin in a status update, but when Arronax kept telling his companions to look at their situation from an nautical explorer's point of view, how great an opportunity it was to see life and amazing habitats they'd never have come across otherwise, it made me wonder if I'd actually found Stephen's "ancestor".
I would say, actually, that this is a good example of character relationships written well. In the sense of writing narrative, so many people of the same gender in a scene can get awkward and repetitive. People find it hard to write and it can affect reading ability. Unless it being abridged has changed so much of it, this flowed quite well when even Dickens fell short of the mark.
I'd say it's worth a read, but definitely go for a fuller version and prepared to be left a little bit wanting by the ending.
There's a lot in this that I think inspired a lot of later works. I jokingly mentioned Stephen Maturin in a status update, but when Arronax kept telling his companions to look at their situation from an nautical explorer's point of view, how great an opportunity it was to see life and amazing habitats they'd never have come across otherwise, it made me wonder if I'd actually found Stephen's "ancestor".
I would say, actually, that this is a good example of character relationships written well. In the sense of writing narrative, so many people of the same gender in a scene can get awkward and repetitive. People find it hard to write and it can affect reading ability. Unless it being abridged has changed so much of it, this flowed quite well when even Dickens fell short of the mark.
I'd say it's worth a read, but definitely go for a fuller version and prepared to be left a little bit wanting by the ending.