sandra_broadwill 's review for:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

3.0

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I respect what this book was at the time it was written. There's some engaging plot points and good philosophizing, but no story arc. Things just kind of happen. Jules Verne spends wayyyy too many pages describing the taxonomic classifications of marine life. Definitely some outdated discussion of "savages" (to be expected for the era but still cringe). It was fun to see what science was known and unknown at this point in history. But overall, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.