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jonjee 's review for:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
I thought about leaving a rating off of this, because this book is definitely one of those that I may not like but someone else will adore. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be; I was expecting an action story. Which it was in some ways. There were even some places I had to laugh. The story: A "monster" is seen in the ocean and Professor Aronnax goes in search of it. He and two others fall into the ocean after an accident and get picked up not by a monster, but an extremely advanced submarine (especially for the time it was written). Captain Nemo tells them to protect his secrets they can never leave the Nautilus ever again, but they are welcome to look around as much as they like. What follows is 30-some chapters of rather involved scientific explanations and marine taxonomy of every little thing the characters see while on board. It's not until the last few chapters that there was any real sense FOR ME that there was any kind of a plot. Then all of a sudden the action took of like a shot and the ending caught me off guard but seemed rather appropriate for the enigmatic Nemo. I will admit I listened to this on librivox.org (free audio online for books in the public domain...good stuff!!) and I might have gotten more out of it if I had read it, rather than listened to it. All of the descriptions made the story drag for me, but it's really not a bad little book. You'll just have to sample it for yourself and make up your own mind.