caitpaige 's review for:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

4.0

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As a kid I had an amazing "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" pop up book and I watched the 1954 Disney movie many many times, so oddly this story was a big part of my childhood, but I had never read the book until now. It's a great adventure story and intriguingly advanced in its presentation of science/technology - hard to believe it was written in 1870! It bogged down a little in the excessive description and classification of fish throughout, but the crushing icebergs/giant squid/hostile natives/whirlpools/etc make up for it. Anthony Bonner's very adept translation seems to make all the difference, so I'd definitely recommend that version over others (which those in my book club said were very dense and hard to read).