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Capitaine Nemo #2

毓卮乇賵賳 兀賱賮 賮乇爻禺 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲丕亍

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賷毓鬲亘乇 噩賵賱 賮賷乇賳 賲賳 乇賵丕丿 "兀丿亘 丕賱禺賷丕賱 丕賱毓賱賲賷". 賵賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵毓賳賵丕賳賴 "毓卮乇賵賳 兀賱賮 賮乇爻禺 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲丕亍" 賷毓鬲亘乇 賲賳 兀卮賴乇 賰鬲亘賴.

253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1869

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Jules Verne

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Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."


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May 16, 2023
Hands down the WORST book I've read all year.
I mean, there's boring and then there's mind-numbing. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is definitely the latter.

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I was actually looking forward to listening to this. It's supposed to be a classic action/adventure sci-fi book, right? And it's not an overly long book, which made me assume it was a pretty compact story. Plus, I usually have better luck when it comes to these older novels if I listen to the audiobook instead of trying to wade through all the crunchy dialogue with my eyeballs. So, between those factors, I thought this would be a complete winner.
But ho-ly shit this was terrible.
Terrible!

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Ok, how to describe this book?
Alright. If a really tedious nature show fucked a 5th grade word problem and didn't use a condom - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea would be their bastard child.
The vast majority of this thing:
Lattitude 54, Longitude 45. <--or whatever.
On the {insert random date here} the crew of the Nautilus and my companions entered the {insert random body of water here} and observed {insert random sea life here}.

Then Aronnax would go on to describe in excruciating detail every fucking thing about whatever chunk of seaweed, fish, oyster bed, sediment, etc. that they happened to be floating past.
Now, sometimes my mind will wander for a second when I'm listening to an audiobook. Usually, it's one of those Did I remember to give my kid the check for that field trip? things that distract me. And then I'll just have to back the book up a few seconds to recoup whatever info I just lost. But with this one, I was spacing out constantly due to the fact that there was literally NOTHING happening. But I could lose half an hour and it wouldn't fucking matter because the professor would still be droning on about different types of pearls and how they were made, and what colors there were, and how much each kind sold for on the open market, and whether or not the oyster wept when they were gone.
Or some other such nonsense.

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Where was the action I was promised?! Where was the adventure?!
Not here, that's for goddamn sure.
Still, I remembered hearing about the famous Scene With The Giant Squid and I figured it might make all of this other garbage worth wading through.
Supposedly, it was this super awesome battle between man and cephalopod that left a lasting impression on people. <--I should have known better.

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Lamest. Battle. Ever.
Let me save you some trouble. See, I thought that there was some menacing squid following them that decided to attack the sub and try to drag it to the bottom, or crush it with its massive tentacles, or break it open to slurp out the crew with a straw, or...something. Anything!
But no.
A group of big-ass squids was swimming by, a few got curious, one of the poor bastards got tangled around the fan or whatnot, and then when the crew when out to "fight" it off the Nautilus one of them got tossed off and killed. Oh, and Ned almost got eaten but Nemo hacked at the squid's beak and saved him.
The End.
Bah.

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There was a shining moment when I thought things were going to finally get cool as the Nautilus passed over Atlantis.
Fucking Atlantis! <--Yes!
These turds got out to explore every dull coral bed along the way, so surely they would stop and meander around this magically advanced civilization, right?
Nope.
They just floated on past it.
Bye, Aquaman...

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And after that, I think I just lost the will to even try to muster up a few shits for the rest of it.

Nemo's quitting land because of {insert spoilery things here} was also ridiculous but I could have easily given it a pass if this were a remotely engaging story otherwise. Since it wasn't, that was just ONE MORE THING that I found annoying. I mean, really? Why the hell would anyone go to all that trouble of building this masterpiece of a submarine just for revenge? Just track the fuckers down and shoot them in the head. It would be waaaaay easier and ultimately less time-consuming.
Oh, and their stupid secret language that they spoke on board? It was probably Pig Latin, because everything else they did seemed like something thought up by a 10 year old.
Why keep Aronnax, Conseil, & Ned prisoner just because they had seen the Nautilus? <--made no sense!
It's not as though anyone could track them down even if those guys spilled the beans!
They were literally the ONLY submarine in the world at that point and the oceans are HUGE.
Again, I would have overlooked that with pleasure if I weren't so pissed off with this boring time-suck.

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The only fun thing about this was Ned Land. <--harpooner extraordinaire
Just the fact that he is the ONLY surly Canadian I've ever read about was almost worth the price of admission. Seriously. Name another volatile Canuck in literature.
Kind of hard to do, eh?



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Anyway. It may be hard to tell but I didn't actually like this very much.
However, if you did? Well, then that's good, too.
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878 reviews7,411 followers
August 20, 2024
What book has the most creativity?

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is a strong contender! What an incredible ride!

When I was growing up, I lived in a small town with plenty of open spaces. When I returned recently, I noticed that the field where I used to run is now bursting with new homes.

Where is the one great undiscovered region to explore? The ocean! Although even that area is shrinking鈥�..

Although written in 1870, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is a splendid read. It is about the adventures of Captain Nemo and Monsieur Aronnax in their seafaring travels. What will they find below the surface?

The adventures in this book are so diverse that if I wrote this book, I would be extremely proud of myself.

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619 reviews620 followers
August 23, 2009
Man, what a strange book. As I've learned from my more erudite , 19th century novelists are all about digression, and Verne, despite being very solidly camped outside Greatliterarynovelopolis in the growing shantytown of Genreville, is no exception. Literally half this book is a taxonomic listing of every plant and animal Arronax observes! I mean, even I was bored. Me. The nature freak. I occasionally review field guides on 欧宝娱乐, and yet I actually preferred George Eliot's tangents about political economy and local gossip.

That said, this is a pretty fun book. Adventure under the sea! Laconic yet cordial sumbarine 眉bermenches thirsting for vengeance and whale milk! Canadians! Well, a Canadian. The Canadian. He had a harpoon. Reading science fiction that describes a future long past is also a hoot, especially if you're a huge goddamn nerd. Despite accurately predicting the feasibility of a submarine, I don't think Verne had actually spent much time in the water. The Nautilus navigates not by sonar, but by shining a really bright light. I think swimming in anything but the most crystalline tropical seas would convince you that wouldn't quite work. Every time the crew leaves the ship to go exploring, they actually walk on the sea floor instead of swimming. One time, Cpt. Nemo dodges a shark. It's kind of hard to dodge slow moving jellies when you're underwater, never mind one of Nature's most amazing swimmers.

The book is also an interesting balance between technological hubris and an underlying conservationist theme. Nemo (and presumably Verne) decries the repercussions of overfishing when forbidding former harpooneer Ned Land from testing his skill against a pod of Antarctic whales: "In destroying the southern whale [...:] your traders are culpable, Master Land. They have already depopulated the whole of Baffin's Bay, and are annihilating a class of useful animals. Leave the unfortunate cetacea alone. They have plenty of natural enemies [...:] without you troubling them." Granted it's a utilitarian, anthropocentric kind of conservation ethic, but conservationist all the same. And yet earlier, upon beholding a massive bed of pearl oysters, Arronax narrates, "I could well understand that this was an inexhaustible mine of treasures, for nature's power to create goes far beyond man's capability of destruction." I doubt Verne set out with any fixed notions of environmental ethics in mind, but I find it intriguing that these contrasting sentiments keep popping up.

I think Verne's apparent ambivalence about the morality of technological advances is more intentional. The Nautilus is a marvelous creation that Nemo uses to reveal the unknown and better understand the world. It's also a vicious instrument of vengeance he employs against his former countrymen (or maybe not his countrymen, reading some of the other reviews...), a nearly invincible ship that can sink below the reach of canons and fatally ram any conventional vessel from beneath. As a war machine in a world of steam and sail it would be monstrous. I also think it's significant that Nemo and the ship meet their apparent end not at the hands of other men or even by an animal, but by the unthinking and inestimable power of the sea itself, bringing to mind Melville's line from :
...however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make...
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1,221 reviews10.1k followers
January 24, 2021
I have to admit something kind of embarrassing here. I have never really given much thought to the title of this book. Also, there has never been much reason for me to use leagues as a unit of measurement. But, up until reading this book I always thought of the "Leagues Under the Sea" as the distance under the surface they go. But, actually, it is indicating a distance AROUND the world that they are travelling under the water. So, yeah . . . my face is a bit red!

Verne may be the king of speculative sci-fi. He wrote so many books covering scientific discoveries that were just conjecture at the time, but ended up coming true. Maybe not all of it ended up in reality, but a lot of it did. I had to keep reminding myself that the things that sounded pretty normal for submarine travel were remarkable and unheard of at the time.

I am not sure if this classic will appeal to all. Some of the sections do get repetitive and tend towards dryness. However, for me, the whole experience was worth it and I am glad to add another classic to my list of books read.
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November 3, 2021
Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers = 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea = Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6, Captain Nemo #1), Jules Verne

During the year 1866, ships of various nationalities sight a mysterious sea monster, which, it is later suggested, might be a gigantic narwhal. The U.S. government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and the story's narrator, is in town at the time and receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition; he accepts. Canadian whaler and master harpooner Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful manservant Conseil are also among the participants.

The expedition leaves Manhattan's 34th St. Pier aboard the U.S. Navy frigate Abraham Lincoln, then travels south around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. After a five-month search ending off Japan, the frigate locates and attacks the monster, which damages the ship's rudder.

The three protagonists are hurled into the sea and ultimately climb onto the monster itself, which they are startled to find is a futuristic submarine. They wait on the deck of the vessel until morning, when they're captured, hauled inside, and introduced to the submarine's mysterious manufacturer and commander, Captain Nemo.

The rest of the novel describes the protagonists' adventures aboard the Nautilus, which was built in secrecy and now roams the seas beyond the reach of land-based governments.

In self-imposed exile, Captain Nemo seems to have a dual motivation: a quest for scientific knowledge and a desire to take revenge on terrestrial civilization.

Nemo explains that his submarine is electrically powered and can conduct advanced marine research; he also tells his new passengers that his secret existence means he can't let them leave鈥攖hey must remain on board permanently. Professor Aronnax and Conseil are enthralled by the prospect of undersea exploration, but Ned Land increasingly hungers to escape. ...

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2,282 reviews1,184 followers
September 27, 2024
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a marine adventure book that can qualify as a fiction novel; it was one of the first science fiction novels.
When this book came out in 1864, it had not made an underwater trip, as reported. Jules Verne allows us to imagine from the scientific basis for individual facts (pressure, temperature, different seas and oceans traveled) and more spooky for cross creatures. We say what is avant-garde with this fully electrified submarine, its autonomous suits used for humanistic and non-military purposes!
This novel is a real dashboard where we follow our four protagonists and dive with them to discover the splendors of the sea. Neuville's beautiful illustrations add to this significant part. Admittedly, some passages are very distinct and detailed in classifying species in maritime coordinates. Still, we must not forget that the imminent Professor Oronnax holds this dashboard.
We are fascinated by Captain Nemo: What happened to him for wanting so much to leave the Earth forever? Why so much hate and rancor towards men, to the point of attacking their boats? Can we blame him without knowing his past and understanding what capable men are? Is it more to blame than the men who leave at the novel's beginning, hunting down the "monster" sailor to kill him because it harms the navigators?
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1,268 reviews17.8k followers
April 24, 2025
I say I "read" this, but that's not true. It's close enough, though in a way, because I'm in the process of "reading" the Audible audiobook.

Wow - it brought back long-lost memories of 1955...

You see, in 1955 my Mom had offered to pick me up after my First Grade class to see a matinee rescreening of the 1954 Disney film of that name... and wouldn't you know it, she was late.

So there I was, waiting for much too long outside a locked school.

I had a dirty laundry problem, waiting -

When I had knocked on the door - in extremis - no one had come!

I think my Mom musta gone to an after-hours meeting at Frieman's Department Store, where she worked.

Oh, well.

Soiled and frigid that cold November day, I was mighty glad to see her! We quickly cleaned up and I changed.

When we arrived at the Elgin Theatre, though, Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre (RIP, old fav) had already been kidnapped into the monster sub by the evil Captain Nemo (literally, Nobody), James Mason.

They were, of course, now submerged.

I didn't mind a bit.

I was just glad to smell like a daisy again, as Kirk and Peter planned their brave escape, from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea -

Just like my Mom had gotten me outta my own evil mess!
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781 reviews4,063 followers
July 10, 2017
Pierre Aronnax, Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History, embarks on a ship to investigate the mystery of a powerful creature terrorizing the open seas. When he and two of his companions discover the Nautilus - a magnificent submarine owned by the uncompromising Captain Nemo 鈥� their journey takes them under the sea and 20,000 leagues across the world.

For some time past, vessels had been met by 鈥榓n enormous thing,鈥� a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.

Pierre鈥檚 story starts strong with an arresting premise: the Government of the United States is among the first to take to the open seas in search of the monstrous creature. By personal invitation of the Secretary of Marine, Pierre joins the crew of the Abraham Lincoln.

Three seconds after the arrival of [the] letter, I no more thought of pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North Sea. Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster, and purge it from the world.

Unfortunately, the majority of the book is comprised of overly detailed scientific explanations (complete with mathematical equations) and long-winded descriptions of varied species of aquatic life. To be frank, it鈥檚 quite boring.

In the eighty-ninth genus of fishes, classed by Lac茅p猫de, belonging to the second lower class of bony, characterized by opercules and bronchial membranes, I remarked the scorpaena, the head of which is furnished with spikes, and which has but one dorsal fin; these creatures are covered, or not, with little shells, according to the sub-class to which they belong. The second sub-class gives us specimens of didactyles fourteen or fifteen inches in length, with yellow rays, and heads of a most fantastic appearance. As to the first sub-class, it gives several specimens that singular-looking fish appropriately called a 鈥榮ea-frog,鈥� with large head, sometimes pierced with holes, sometimes swollen with protuberances, bristling with spikes, and covered with tubercles; it has irregular and hideous horns; its body and tail are covered with calliosities; its sting makes a dangerous wound; it is both repugnant and horrible to look at.

Worst of all, anyone in the mood for a death-defying battle with an enormous sea creature whose size defies believability will be sorely disappointed.

A remarkable scientific feat for its time, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an impressive classic but may fail to hold the attention of modern audiences.
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Author听3 books51k followers
June 30, 2020
I did enjoy this but you could definitely tell it was written in the 19th century during an age of colonialism. Some of the chapters were difficult to read because of the incredibly dated and exclusivist language. Though, for this reason, it was also quite interesting to read critically.
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546 reviews12.2k followers
November 13, 2012
Jules Verne, classic pulp author, innovator of science fiction, originator of 'steampunk'--or was he? Many readers of the English language will never know the real Verne, and I'm not talking about those who dislike reading. Indeed, many well-meaning folks from the English-speaking world have picked up and read a book titled 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' cover to cover, and yet still know next to nothing of Verne, due to his long-standing translation problem. And as an interesting note, twenty thousand leagues does not refer to the depth of the Nautilus, but the distance traveled.

Since his earliest publication, when the author was still alive, translations of his work into English have been abhorrent. For speakers of other languages, he is considered an intelligent, thoughtful, deliberate author, not a half-competent penner of fun pulp adventures (and this isn't some error on their part). Indeed, it's created a catch-22 in literary studies: current translations of Verne are so bad that no one wants to read or study him, so there's little demand for new translations.

How bad are the old translations? . Often up to 25% of the text is cut. Character names are changed, as are plot points and events. Anything which might reflect poorly on British colonial policy is left out. Verne's carefully-researched scientific facts and numbers are arbitrarily changed or deleted. 'Diving suit' becomes 'life vest' and in several incidents, translators added racial epithets, in one case translating 'he said' as 'whined the Jew'. Compare two translations of Verne, and you're likely to find they differ greatly in length, content, and story. Indeed, even the title in French does not end with 'sea', but 'seas'.

Sadly, picking up a copy of the book, new or used, and you are still likely to get one of these terrible translations, since they are in the public domain. But we need suffer beneath this maltreatment no longer, for recently, several scholars have labored to bring to us faithful and well-researched translations. F.P. Walter donated his translation to Project Gutenberg, and it may be found , while William Butcher's, which includes a critical introduction and footnotes, is available .

Reading through these, it must be clear that Verne is not a pulp author, with more imagination than sense, but then, it's also difficult to describe his work as science fiction or steampunk. For the first, all the technologies he puts forth are not fictional, but real, current technologies: submarines had been in use since the American Civil war and his descriptions all rely closely on data found in scientific journals. It's true that his submarine is much larger and more advanced than any other, but it's hardly the same leap as a race to the moon or a journey through time. Indeed, as with Doyle's Professor Challenger stories, it is not man who is fantastical, but the world around him. As for 'steampunk', the Nautilus skips right past steam and diesel and is wholly powered by chemical batteries and electricity, with nary a cog or flywheel to be found.

As for the writing itself, it is intelligent, the characters strong, and Verne is quite capable of giving us those little insights which subtly alters our perception of the various interpersonal conflicts which dominate the book's plot. Though there are various events--the squid, meeting with this or that vessel, the undersea gardens, travel to the antarctic--these are all scattered throughout the story willy nilly, as if it were a real travelogue, tied together by the real central plot, which is the conflict between the captain and our heroes.

But since fiction is artificial, it does not make sense for the author to pretend that it isn't, so I found it disappointing that the individual occurrences of the plot rarely seemed important, nor did Verne build up to them or create a letdown, afterwards. The famous scene with the giant squid was particularly disappointing and anti-climactic, emerging suddenly and then over in a few moments. It's something I've been struggling with as I work on my own Victorian sci fi novel: ensuring that each scene has purpose on its own, and flows from one to the next.

It need not even be a clear flow of events: flow can also be achieved through mood, tone, and pace. Verne's book owes a great deal to , a book which bravely thrust from scene to scene, but where each scene was conceptually interconnected with the one before and the one after that, even if one was about the classification of whales and the next about someone being swept out to sea, there was still a conceptual link between them.

Verne's digressions of science and classification are not bound up in the purpose and philosophy of his story, as Melville's are, which leads to another problem that I have been carefully weighing in my own writing: what to include. Again and again, Verne spends long parts of chapters listing through types of fish seen outside the ship. Some of these are like Ovid's lists: full of lovely images, colors, and shapes, a melange of words and sounds that approaches a sort of poetry. Some contain humorous or interesting details which have some bearing on the situation at hand. Yet in many instances, they are merely long, dry, and add nothing to the book.

It certainly makes sense, as our narrator is a trained classifier, and duly interested in such things, but one of the rules of fiction is that we leave out reality when it is dull or extraneous, or pass it by with a few words, as Verne does dozens of time, commenting on the passing of days or weeks in a paragraph or even a sentence. To me, leaving in such long-winded, repetitious digressions was a mark against the book.

But then, science fiction is very fond of such digressions, and Verne also indulges in the other kind: the long chapters of explanation about length, tonnage, and the particulars of undersea travel, all taking place at the slow pace of a Socratic dialogue: 'but then how do you replenish these sodium batteries being, as you are, always at sea', 'well, you see, I distill it from the very . . .', and so on. And of course, almost none of these myriad details are ever shown to be important again. My general rule is to only go into detail so much as it:

I. Impacts the story directly
II. Sets an artistic mood
III. Symbolically explores the philosophical ideas in the book, or
IV. Is amusing, in and of itself

But then, Verne is not only indebted to Melville, but to Poe, and his disjointed, bizarre story --his only foray into the novel, and one of those books that is so flawed and unusual that it has inspired whole generations of authors who feel that, with a bit more focus and tightening up, they might turn its form into something quite strong. So, when we rush from carefully-detailed and researched science and plunge into silly, unsupported tall tales in Verne, we can, to some degree, thank Poe, whose story started as a straightforward travelogue and ended as some kind of religious symbolic fever dream.

But it is strange to me to see Verne spend a chapter talking meticulously about the tonnage of the Nautilus and what volume of water would be required to sink to certain depths, and then claiming that sharks can only bite while swimming upside-down and that pearl divers in Ceylon wouldn't be able to hold their breath for more than a minute at a time. It just goes to show that no matter how much careful research and deliberation you put into a book, you're still going to make errors, so in the end, you might want to focus more on your story, plotting, and pacing (things you can control), and less on endlessly researching things that could just as easily be passed over without the story losing anything (except length).

And overall, this is what I wish Verne had done. While I respect the intelligence and precision with which he pursues his work, and I would definitely not rank him among the pulps, the very rich character story at the center of the book was too lightly touched upon, when, as in or Moby Dick, it could have been the focus, and made for a much stronger book. The characters, the conflicts, and the psychology were all there, but in the end, we leave the book without a completed arc.
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177 reviews280 followers
March 17, 2019
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251 reviews935 followers
October 10, 2018
Actual rating: 4.5 馃専

It's very evident that did a ton of research for this book. I would even go so far to say that there is more info-dumping than there is plot. However, Verne has a way of pulling you into the story and writing in such a enthralling way that this large amount of explanations and listing of names isn't boring or repetitive. It just adds to the story and to the development of the characters. I'm not surprised in the slightest that there are people out there who are actually convinced that Verne is telling a non-fictional tale. It all just seems so real, believable and convincing.
I also felt this constant air of mystery while reading, which was strengthen further by how many things are left to the imagination and remain unresolved.
I do have to say that I strongly believe that this book isn't for everyone, especially due to the large extent of maritime information. I'm a huge lover of ocean animals though, so I certainly felt lots of joy while reading.
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Author听4 books696 followers
November 6, 2022
Verne's works are difficult for an English-speaking reader to evaluate fairly, because he wasn't well-served by the English translations of his day --which are still the standard ones in print, which most people read. The translators changed plots and characters' names in some cases, excised passages they considered "boring," and generally took a very free hand with the text; so you never know how much of the plodding pacing, pointless dialogue, and stylistic faults (for instance, what passes for "description" here is usually simply long lists of marine species whose appearance most readers have no idea of) to blame on them and how much on Verne. In any case, those characteristics are fully in view in the translation of this novel that I read, in addition to the basic 19th-century diction which will be off-putting to many modern readers anyway (my wife chose not to finish the book). The success of the book when it was written, in my opinion, owed much more to the novelty of the premise than to the execution of the finished product; and today, where submarines and undersea travel are commonplace, that factor doesn't operate. (This is a pity, because Captain Nemo is actually one of Verne's more complex and memorable characters, and deserves a better literary medium for his story!)
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1,973 reviews17.3k followers
September 9, 2023
I read this EARLY in high school, about a hundred years ago, so I cannot write an appropriately thoughtful review due to time and a memory sodden with time. However, I can recollect one memorable anecdote about this reading. This book was so good, I could not put it down, literally. I think I started this on Friday afternoon and finished sometime Sunday night, with barely a TV show in between.

*** 2023 reread -

Still fun but I gotta say it has not held up like I thought it might. The nineteenth century scientific prose which is in a way pre-Steampunk or Real Steampunk or something got somewhat tedious here and there.

The idea of a mysterious "submarine" vehicle roaming around the globe, under the waves must have been really cool when this first came out in the 1860s and Verne's imaginative use of electricity may be lost on modern readers. The author's descriptions of naturalist scenes was also noteworthy.

A hundred and fifty years later and Captain Nemo, uncivilized yet urbane, dangerous and unpredictable, still steals the show. But this time just for fun I imagined the Captain looked like Bill Murray and the crew resembled Zissounauts.

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March 23, 2021
3.5
I mean is a good book and classic and all you want, I get it but for me still is one of this big books with a lot of text and descriptions (which is a clearly characteristic of classics) but overall enjoyable, I think that right now is not the books that I'm looking for I always think about classics (like this) would be better for me when I'm old and have more time, and I still think that
Perhaps I will read it when I'm old and I'd enjoy it more
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February 9, 2022
胤乇賳丕 賲毓 賮賷乇賳 賲賳 丕賱丕乇囟 賱賱賯賲乇
賵 賴亘胤賳丕 賲毓賴 賱賲乇賰夭 丕賱丕乇囟
賵 賴丕 賳丨賳 賳睾賵氐 賲毓 賰丕亘鬲賳 賳賷賲賵 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賲丕亍

毓丕賱賲 賵 賻 賲爻丕毓丿賴 賵 亘丨丕乇 賷毓孬乇賵賳 毓賱賷 賰丕卅賳 睾乇賷亘 賵 賷賰鬲卮賮賵賳 賮噩丕丞 丕賳賴 睾賵丕氐丞貨 賱賷氐亘丨賵丕 爻噩賳丕亍 賰丕亘鬲賳 賳賷賲賵 賵 胤丕賯賲賴 賱丕丕亘丿賲毓 賲毓丕賲賱鬲賴賲 賲毓丕賲賱丞 賰乇賷賲丞

賵賯毓鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賯亘賱 丕禺鬲乇丕毓 丕賱睾賵丕氐丞 亘毓賯賵丿貨 賵 賱賰賳 賵氐賮賴丕 賮賷乇賳 亘卮賰賱 丿賯賷賯 賰兀賳賴丕 丕賲丕賲賴貨 賵 賷賳胤賱賯賵丕 賮賷 乇丨賱丕鬲 賱丕 鬲氐丿賯貨 丨鬲賷 賷賴乇亘 丕賱孬賱丕孬丞 賵 賷賰鬲亘賵丕 毓賳 鬲噩乇亘鬲賴賲 賮賷 賳賷賵鬲賱賷爻
賱賷鬲賳亘丕 賮賷乇賳 亘丕禺鬲乇丕毓 :丕賱睾賵丕氐丞貨 賻 亘丿賱丞 丕賱睾胤爻貨 賵 丕賱爻賮賳 丕賱丨丕賲賱丞 賱賱乇丐賵爻 丕賱賳賵賵賷丞

丕賱丨賷賵賷丞 賵 丕賱毓亘賯乇賷丞貨 丕賱賰亘乇賷丕亍 賵 丕賱睾賲賵囟 貨鬲賱賰 賴賷 氐賮丕鬲 亘胤賱 噩毓賱 賲賳 丕賱亘丨乇 毓丕賱賲賴 賵 賲賳夭賱賴
賵 丕毓鬲夭賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賷兀爻丕 賲賳 丕賱亘卮乇 賵 丨乇氐 賮賷乇賳 毓賱賷 丕亘賯丕亍 丿賵丕賮毓賴 睾丕賲囟丞 賱賱賳賴丕賷丞
賵 賱賲 賷賵囟丨賴丕 賮毓賱丕 丕賱丕 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 :丕賱噩夭賷乇丞 丕賱睾丕賲囟丞
賱賷馗賱 賰丕亘鬲賳 賳賷賲賵 丕丨丿 丕卮賴乇 丕卮乇丕乇 丕賱丕丿亘 丕賱毓丕賱賲賷
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955 reviews1,053 followers
November 7, 2020
My eyes did not leave the Captain, who, with his hand stretched out to sea, was watching with a glowing eye the glorious wreck. Perhaps I was never to know who he was, from whence he came, or where he was going to, but I saw the man move, and apart from the savant. It was no common misanthropy which had shut Captain Nemo and his companions within the Nautilus, but a hatred, either monstrous or sublime, which time could never weaken. Did this hatred still seek for vengeance? The future would soon teach me that.
Between 1866 and 1868, ships across the world keep encountering what appears to be a giant, dangerous narwhal. The U.S. government sends the USS Abraham Lincoln to hunt down the creature. Joining the expedition is the book鈥檚 narrator, Pierre Aronnax, a French professor of marine biology. But when the ship finally find the 鈥榤onster,鈥� Aronnax, his manservant Conseil, and a hot-tempered harpooner named Ned Land, are thrown overboard during the attack. The three men are ultimately rescued by the 鈥榤onster,鈥� which is revealed to actually be a giant steel submarine. Choosing life over death, the three reluctantly agree to remain on the Nautilus, and under the control of its Captain, the mysterious, magnetic Nemo.

Thus begins this classic adventure tale by Jules Verne, one of the foundational writers of science fiction. Unlike H.G. Wells, who wrote science fiction that was far more philosophical than technical, this book reads like an old-timey Michael Crichton novel. There鈥檚 a great deal of science鈥攁ctual and predictive鈥攚ithin this story. It foretells modern submarines, scuba gear, and greater use of electric power. It also predicts future trends from trying to save the whales and ecological protectionism to opposing sport fishing and living as a pescatarian.

Captain Nemo is, of course, the most interesting character here even though, like Captain Ahab in , we only see him sporadically and only through the eyes of the narrator. He鈥檚 on a self-imposed exile from the rest of humanity, and he occasionally carries out acts of vengeance against certain ships that cross his path. But he鈥檚 not a one-dimensional villain, as he also sends money to help oppressed people around the world, and acts to help individual people that he meets.

The journey of Nautilus spans the globe, exploring underwater forests, coral graveyards, the South Pole, and even Atlantis. The story paints a picture of a beautiful undersea world, with creatures real and imagined, including the famous giant squid. It鈥檚 not always scientifically or historically accurate, but it is consistently interesting.
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666 reviews1,180 followers
December 31, 2019
As a story of adventure, Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea seems a bit dated. However, even though it is told as a tale of adventure, there is more to Verne's famous story.

The science in Twenty Thousand Leagues, especially considering the time it was published, is amazing. We got a sort of psychological account of Captain Nemo, but I would have liked more backstory on how he got to be the man our protagonist meets. What were his accomplishments before he became the recluse we see in the story? Still, it was an easy read and, since I'm now scuba diving in Honduras, quite timely! 3.5 stars
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August 5, 2023
"Is more than one pearl ever found in an oyster?" asked Conseil.
"Yes, my boy. Some oysters are veritable jewel boxes. I've even read of an oyster-but I can hardly believe it-which contained no less than a hundred and fifty sharks."
"A hundred and fifty sharks!" cried Ned Land.
"Did I say sharks?" I cried. "I meant to say a hundred and fifty pearls. It wouldn't make sense to say sharks."


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I always feel a bit weird reviewing a book that I haven't read in its native language. Translations are all very well, but the very soul of a book must always be lost when it comes to being turned in to English, unless, of course, the original author is the translator. Then it is not translation, just bad writing. But translations are odd things and, sadly, the only thing available to me and thus are all I can review.

In the case of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea it is a translation, but a mighty one. I was captivated from the start, with the magnificence of the descriptions, setting the scene, getting me excited about the whole ruddy adventure. I enjoyed Professor Aronnax and his very Passepartout-esque servant Conseil and their rather odd relationship. Ned Land was grand, if only for a laugh.

And then we got on Captain Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, and two things happened. Captain Nemo was, honestly, pointless. He wasn't to be feared, or particularly enigmatic. He was just a bit of a lonely loser. He should have been explored more-not to the extent that the mystery was solved completely, but surely to a deeper level akin to what his submarine goes to. Captain Nemo was, in short, a huge disappointment. His so-called revenge on society is, quite frankly, pathetic, as well.

Secondly, we sink in to a deluge of classifications of fish and other marine life. Countless lists of the things Aronnax, Conseil and Ned see. Countless fish. I understand that the sea holds many of these, but to list them all is ridiculous. It felt like nothing but tedium and perhaps a little showy-showy.

I suppose an adventure that is trapped beneath the waves will have limitations in how quick the pace can go, but the very nature of the journey and the interim expeditions-whilst incredibly imaginative and very forward-thinking-tended to be slow and fairly lacklustre.

The whole thing petered out in a rather tremendous fashion. I feel slightly cheated by it, to tell the truth, as the start really had me engaged and mentally prepared to be taken on a fantastic journey. Instead, I just learned about latitude and classifications of fish.
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June 26, 2020
Le Nautilus, le Capitaine Nemo, le calamar g茅ant ! Voici un tr猫s court et tr猫s inexact r茅sum茅 de ce chef-d鈥櫯搖vre de Jules Vernes. En v茅rit茅, Nemo n鈥檈st pas Ahab et le poulpe g茅ant n鈥檈st pas la baleine blanche. L鈥櫭﹑isode du calamar intervient incidemment vers la fin du roman de Verne et a 茅t茅 mont茅 en 茅pingle de la m锚me fa莽on que l鈥檃 茅t茅 l鈥櫭﹑isode de Don Quichotte et des moulins 脿 vent, au d茅but du roman de Cervantes.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un tour du monde (脿 l鈥檌nstar des aventures de Phileas Fogg dans les airs) et avant tout un roman documentaire sur la mer, c鈥檈st-脿-dire : pas tant un roman de science-fiction, comme on a souvent voulu l鈥櫭﹖iqueter, mais bien plut么t un roman de vulgarisation scientifique et g茅ographique sur les oc茅ans. Le cadre narratif 鈥� le merveilleux vaisseau sous-marin, le t茅n茅breux capitaine, son myst茅rieux 茅quipage et ses trois sympathiques otages 鈥� n鈥檈st le plus souvent gu猫re plus que cela : un cadre.

A l鈥檌nt茅rieur se dessine la prodigieuse richesse et complexit茅 du monde sous-marin : sa g茅ologie, ses courants, sa faune et sa flore, dont Verne se d茅lecte 脿 茅num茅rer les noms aux sonorit茅s surnaturelles, pages apr猫s pages, comme si son intention avait 茅t茅, au fond, de composer une encyclop茅die d鈥檋istoire naturelle et de biologie marine romanc茅e, un hallucinant bestiaire. Les fonds marins 茅tant pratiquement inexplor茅s 脿 l鈥櫭﹑oque o霉 Verne 茅crivait, plusieurs points du r茅cit traduisent une fantaisie surprenante, un peu d茅su猫te, voire attendrissante : le tunnel sous l鈥檌sthme de Suez, la d茅couverte des ruines sous-marines de l鈥橝tlantide, la fosse oc茅anique de seize kilom猫tres, l鈥檕c茅an sous les glaces antarctiques ; mais sans doute tout ceci ne paraissait-il pas si na茂fs aux jeunes lecteurs avides d鈥檌nstruction scientifique, en cette deuxi猫me moiti茅 du XIX猫me si猫cle.

Au passage, Verne fait des clins d鈥櫯搃l aux lecteurs d鈥橦om猫re (Nemo n鈥檈st qu鈥檜n autre nom pour Outis, qui n鈥檈st qu鈥檜n autre nom pour Ulysse), d鈥橢dgar Poe (le voyage en Antarctique d鈥�, ainsi que le terrible ), de Victor Hugo (la pieuvre g茅ante des ). Plus que Neuville, l鈥檌llustrateur de cette 茅dition, pour moi, celui qui donna, peut-锚tre inconsciemment, un vrai visage au Capitaine Nemo et a son Nautilus est sans doute le Commandant Cousteau et sa Calypso, parcourant en tous sens les mers de notre plan猫te, pour condamner la sottise destructrice des hommes et pour 茅duquer la jeunesse de demain. Je soulignerais pour finir que tant Herg茅 (voir en particulier ) que le cin茅aste James Cameron (entre autres, 脿 travers The Abyss et Titanic) ont une dette 茅ternelle envers Jules Verne.
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950 reviews873 followers
February 24, 2018
This is definitely one of the best classic science fiction I've read so far. I was amazed that Verne might have started the idea of the submarine and the under the sea explorations. While I was reading this, I was contemplating where he got his ideas or whether silly it might be, he could have time traveled from his time to the future or vice versa.
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January 19, 2024
丕卮賴丿 丕賳 賱丕 廿賱賴 丕賱丕 丕賱賱賴
丕禺賷乇丕丕丕 禺賱氐鬲
丕賱賱賶 賷毓乇賮賳賷 賷毓乇賮 丕賳 賲毓賳丿賷卮 賲卮賰賱丞 賲毓 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵亘胤亍 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 胤丕賱賲丕 丕賱兀爻賱賵亘 丨賱賵 賵賲賳丿賲噩丞 賲毓 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱賰賳 賴賳丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕禺鬲亘乇鬲 賵鬲噩丕賵夭鬲 賰賱 氐亘乇賷 賵丕丨鬲賲丕賱賶 賵賱賵賱丕 丕賳賴丕 毓賳丿賶 賵乇賯賷 亘噩丕賳亘 胤亘毓丕 氐丨亘丞 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 賲毓 丕賱兀氐丿賯丕亍 丕賱賱賶 賰賳丕 亘賳毓賷胤 爻賵丕 賰賳鬲 爻賷亘鬲賴丕 賮毓賱丕. 亘噩丕賳亘 丕賳賶 賰賳鬲 鬲毓丿賷鬲 賳氐賴丕 亘丕賱賮毓賱 .

丕賱賲卮賰賱丞 賴賳丕 賲卮 賮賷 丕賱賵氐賮 賵丕賱賰賱丕賲 丕賱賰鬲賷乇 賵亘胤亍 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬貙 丕賱賲卮賰賱丞 賰丕賳鬲 丕賳賴丕 丕賳鬲賯賱鬲 賲賳 賰賵賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 禺賷丕賱 毓賱賲賶 賱賰鬲丕亘 毓賳 毓丕賱賲 丕賱亘丨丕乇 賵丕賱兀爻賲丕賰.
亘賷鬲爻乇爻賱 賮賶 氐賮丨丕鬲 賵賮氐賵賱 賮賷 賵氐賮 賵鬲氐賳賷賮 兀賳賵丕毓 丕賱爻賲賰 賵禺氐丕卅氐賴丕 賵賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 鬲丕賳賷丞 賰鬲賷乇 . 賱賵 兀賳賴丕 賲賴鬲賲丞 亘丕賱賰賱丕賲 丿賴 賰賳鬲 丕賰賷丿 丕爻賲鬲毓鬲 亘爻 丕賳丕 賲卮 賲賴鬲賲丞 賵亘噩丕賳亘 丕賳賶 丕毓鬲賯丿 賱賵 丕賳丕 賲賴鬲賲丞 賰賳鬲 賴賱噩兀 賱賰鬲丕亘 亘賷鬲賰賱賲 毓賳 丕賱賲賵囟賵毓 丿賴 賲卮 乇賵丕賷丞 禺賷丕賱 毓賱賲賶.

" 丕賳 兀亘毓丿 丕賱賲丨賷胤丕鬲 賱丕鬲夭丕賱 禺丕賮賷丞 毓賱賷賳丕. 賮賲丕匕丕 賷丨丿孬 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀毓賲丕賯責 兀賶 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 賷賲賰賳 兀賳 鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 兀毓賲丕賯 鬲亘毓丿 丕孬賳賷 毓卮乇 兀賵 禺賲爻丞 毓卮乇 賲賷賱丕賸 鬲丨鬲 爻胤丨 丕賱賲丕亍 責 廿賳賳丕 賱丕 賳爻鬲胤賷毓 兀賳 賳丿乇賰 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲鬲賰賵賳 賲賳賴丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲禺賱賵賯丕鬲 兀賵 丕賱賴賷卅丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓賱賷賴丕"

賵賮賷乇賳 賴賳丕 丨亘 賷噩丕賵亘 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲爻丕丐賱 丕賱賱賶 胤乇丨賴 賮賷 兀賵賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘廿爻鬲賮丕囟賴 乇賴賷賷亘丞 鬲賵氐賱 賱賱賲賱賱 .

丕賳丕 賰賳鬲 賲爻鬲賲鬲毓丞 賮毓賱丕 賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱丕賵賱 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵鬲賯乇賷亘丕 丨鬲賶 丕賱賮氐賱 丕賱 伲贍 賰賳鬲 賲爻鬲丨賲賱丞 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賵亘毓丿賶 亘爻乇毓丞 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賱賶 賲卮 賲賴鬲賲丞 亘賷賴丕 亘爻 賮毓賱丕 鬲毓亘鬲 賵夭賴賯鬲 賱丿乇噩丞 丕賳賶 賰賳鬲 亘毓丿賶 賮賯乇丕鬲 亘賳馗乇丞 毓賷賳賷 賱丨丿 賲丕 丕賵氐賱 賱丨賵丕乇 亘賷賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 兀賵 賵氐賮 賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘鬲丨氐賱 賲卮 廿孬亘丕鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賱賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱賱賶 毓丕乇賮賴丕 賵丕賱亘丨賵孬 丕賱賱賶 丕賰賷丿 毓賲賱賴丕 毓卮丕賳 賷賰鬲亘 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丿賶 .
丕賳丕 賲卮 賲賳 胤亘毓賷 丕賳賶 兀鬲噩丕賵夭 賮賯乇丕鬲 亘爻 賮賷 亘毓囟 丕賱兀丨賷丕賳 賰賳鬲 賲囟胤乇丞 丕毓賲賱 賰丿賴 毓卮丕賳 兀賯丿乇 兀賰賲賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵兀禺賱氐賴丕 .

亘爻 丿賴 賲賷賲賳毓卮 丕賳 兀爻賱賵亘 爻乇丿 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丨賱賵 賵禺賮賷賮 賮賷賲丕 毓丿丕 胤亘毓丕 丨氐氐 丕賱毓賱賵賲 賵毓丕賱賲 丕賱亘丨丕乇 . 賵賮賰乇丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丨賱賵丞 賵丕毓鬲賯丿 賮賷 賵賯鬲賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 賲亘賴乇丞 . 賵賯丿乇鬲 亘丕賱賮毓賱 鬲噩匕亘賳賷 賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 廿賱丕 丕賳賴丕 賲賯丿乇鬲卮 鬲噩匕亘賳賷 賱賱賳賴丕賷丞 .

丨鬲賶 賲賳鬲氐賮 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賰丕賳 鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賱賴丕 伲 賳噩賵賲 孬賲 兀氐亘丨鬲 賲鬲乇丿丿丞 亘賷賳 佗 丕賵 伲 賵賲毓 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賰丕賳 鬲乇丿丿賶 賲丕 亘賷賳 賳噩賲丞 丕賵 丕孬賳賷賳 .

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507 reviews907 followers
April 25, 2017
鈥淯nder the sea
Under the sea
When the sardine
Begin the beguine
It's music to me
What do they got? A lot of sand
We got a hot crustacean band
Each little clam here
know how to jam here
Under the sea鈥�

- Sebastian the groovy Caribbean Crab

The perfect soundtrack for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas really. I bet Captain Nemo wishes he鈥檇 thought of it.

The direct translation of the full title of this here book is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World*, note the S at the end of 鈥淪eas鈥� also, the tour spans multiple seas you know. The book really is what it says on the tin, a large part of it book reads like a travelogue with more marine biology infodumps than I know what to do with. This aspect of it is a little like *, the difference is that Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (eff the extended title) is much more accessible and less dry (haha!). The version I read is translated from the original French by F. P. Walter with an excellent introduction by Mr. Walter that is informative, not too long and creates a nice sense of anticipation.

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, as you probably already know, is the adventure of Professor Pierre Aronnax, his ridiculously faithful servant Conseil, and the ruff 'n' tuff, love-em-and-leave-em, wham-bam-thank you-maam, Ned 鈥淚s that a harpoon or are you just happy to see me鈥� Land. That sentence went on so long I train of thought has derailed... Oh yes! The adventures of the above-mentioned fellows in the Nautilus, a super-submarine captained by the mysterious Nemo***. Basically, Prof Aronnax and co go hunting for a creature they believe to be a mega-whale which they believe to have sunk several ships in the ocean and has to be stopped. As luck would have it, their own ship is sunk and the creature they are hunting turns out to be the high-tech submarine the Nautilus. Fortunately for them, Captain Nemo is nice enough to rescue them and take them on board his sub, less fortunate is that he won鈥檛 allow them to leave the Nautilus 鈥� ever!

From then on Prof Aronnax鈥檚 first person narrative takes us along on this extraordinary voyage. The 20,000 leagues of the title refers to the distance, not the depth, covered by Aronnax鈥檚 voyage on board the Nautilus, which mostly takes place under the sea. I see what you did there Mr. Verne! I have to confess I am not an enthusiast of marine biology so my mind did float off to other places during some of the more educational passages. In all fairness, the book never bored me though, the tone of the narrative is always affable and pleasant to breeze through. If you are familiar with Disney鈥檚 awesome 1954 adaption of the book you will already know what to expect at the climax of the book involving a giant octopus (called devilfish in the book). This scene is brilliantly depicted by Verne, I was surprised how vivid and effective it is even in written form.

Octopus vs The Nautilus (no idea who to credit, sorry)

The central characters are quite well developed, though I did find Conseil to be subservient to a fault:

鈥淗e's in Master's employ, he thinks like Master, he speaks like Master, and much to his regret, he can't be counted on to form a majority.鈥�

In a scene where oxygen was running out of the Nautilus, Conseil says "Oh, if only I didn't have to breathe, to leave more air for Master!" . For heaven鈥檚 sake man, get some agency! Ned Land may be a little plebeian but at least he is his own man. The faithful servant Passepartout from Verne鈥檚 is very similar to Conseil, but he is much more independent and even goes off on a solo adventure for a while. Aronnax is the least interesting of the main characters, but he makes a good narrator. Captain Nemo is, of course, awesome. A sort of Sherlock Holmes crossed with Batman 鈥� with gills (well, no gills but I bet he wishes he has them).

I generally prefer Verne鈥檚 to this one, as it has less slack and moves along at a brisker pace. Still I like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, it is very amiable and entertaining to read.

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* 鈥淰ingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin鈥� if you want to get all Frenchie about it.

** Can I just plug my awesome terrible review of Moby-Dick here, it鈥檚 probably an all-time worst review of this venerated book. But I like it ;) ****

*** Unfortunately the Nautilus is not yellow so I can鈥檛, in all good conscience, quote from another song.

**** My "emojitional" Twilight review is even worse, and it gets very little love, either because it is too far ahead of its time, or too far behind! But Cecily likes it so it can鈥檛 be all bad ;)

clearly and entertainingly read by Librivox volunteer Ms. Michele Fry. Thank you!
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August 1, 2014

I picked this book up -- this specific edition -- because I saw it was illustrated by the Dillons. This was fortunate because it turned out that, contrary to my previously held belief, I had not read it. What I had read as a child was some heavily edited-for-excitingness version almost entirely absent the encyclopedic accounts of marine life and oceanic conditions that constitute the bulk of the text. So few are the actual adventures of Nemo and the Professor and his two companions that I now wonder how they managed to get enough material to still have a book. The narration of the action is very understated, also, so I wonder if it was actually rewritten for the volume I had.

With modern special effects this could make a great movie -- not an action film, but more like a marine documentary with strange asides into the human psyche.



The above image (a Ransonnet-Villez lithograph of corals) is not from or even directly related to this book, but merely an illustration of the type of investigation of the undersea world that was becoming possible at the time due to new technologies.
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255 reviews50 followers
August 31, 2008
You can't be a serious science-fiction reader without delving just a bit into the genre's roots. To remedy an embarrassing lack of any Jules Verne on my reading list, last year I read "Journey to the Center of the Earth". I can see how to a young reader, it would be an instant classic. It's a pretty ripping adventure complete with hidden underground worlds and dinosaurs and gleefully wrong-headed theories about geology. What's not to love?

Maybe I was a little disappointed? I was hoping for more than just a corny adventure story. There wasn't a lot there send me searching the shelves for another Jules Verne novel. But, alas, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" sat there anyway, patiently waiting for me be curious enough to crack it open. Its prospects weren't too hot, but it did have one thing playing to its advantage, and that one thing was: Alan Moore.

You see, Alan Moore had written several years ago, a Victorian era literary adventure comic called "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." In it, he collects literary characters from various eras and sends them off to save the world. For its base of operations, the team used The Nautilus, the otherworldly submarine of Captain Nemo. Moore's version of Nemo was about a million miles away from the James Mason version in the classic Disney movie, which was a lot closer in tone to the goofy peril invoked in "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Moore made Nemo dark and brooding and ambiguous and cryptic. There wasn't anything corny about it.

Okay then...what the heck. I gave Verne another chance, and plucked the novel off the shelve and had a look.

Unexpectedly, the first thing I read was a brief introductory essay by Ray Bradbury comparing "20,000 Leagues" to "Moby Dick", laying out a convincing arguement for how Nemo and Ahab are opposite sides of the same coin: Ahab evil in his pursuit to conquer the Great Whale and the sea, Nemo evil in his pursuit to become one with it. Now Ray Bradbury has always been a bit of a starry-eyed dreamer (which isn't a bad thing), so it wasn't too far fetched to think he was reading this Verne novel through rose-colored lenses, but quite frankly, nothing in "Center of the Earth" really lent itself to being compared seriously to any Great American Novels, so perhaps I'd be dealing with something different this time out. Equipped with a bit of optimism, it was time to let the book speak for itself.

And the novel spoke for itself. Where "Center of the Earth" was a slick popcorn action story, "20,000 Leagues" is dark and gritty and real. Rather than cartwheeling through flashy action-set-pieces, the story of Doctor Arronax and harpooner Ned Land's imprisonment by Nemo is a crawling, cryptic one. It moves very slowly and deliberately, taking its time to offer lavish descriptions not only of the expansive vistas of the world's oceans, but also of the Nautilus, the grand undersea palace constructed by Nemo in his self-imposed exile from society.

Some of the descriptions of sea life are almost tedious (okay, 'almost' nothing, they really are tedious). As our narrator is a marine biologist, we are graced with several encyclopedic descriptions of every possible creature you might find in the depths. Slowly, however, you begin to realize how much in love with the ocean Arronax is, and all the endless cataloguing of sea-life are really the doctor's love poems to the sea.

And via Arronax's great passion, Nemo slowly becomes less of a villain. How villanous is it exactly to offer an awe-struck marine biologist an opportunity to spend the rest of life studying things no other scientist could even dream existed. Which paves the way for Ned Land, the restless harpooner who keeps popping his grizzled nose into the room and reminding everybody that Nemo is a megalomaniac bastard. Which is basically true, but honestly, I only begrudgingly accepted Nemo as the bad guy, maybe because I, like Arronax, am a scientiest at heart.

Anyhow, the moral ambiguity of Nemo, the starry-eyed wonder of Arronax, the tough-as-nails grit of Ned (I honestly think Verne was picturing Kirk Douglas when he created Ned) gives the reader a host of characters with whom to get deeply invested. Combined with the intricate and luxurious descriptions of the world under the ocean, "20,000 Leagues" is a vastly different sort of adventure than "Center of the Earth".

Much to my surprise and delight, it is far more than a schlockly romp around the ocean. It may not be at the same level as "Moby Dick", but it definitely reads as a work of fine literature.
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June 28, 2022
Tremendous research by the author to provide many examples of the flora and fauna found in all the seas around the world.

I would like to have known a little more of Nemo's background and what motivated him to do what he did.

I am not sure where the three protagonists obtained all the clothing from unless I missed that part.
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February 11, 2015
For years this is what Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea meant to me...

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I know, I know...That's just not what Jules Verne intended. Hey, Disney tried and it was fun when I was about 7 or 8, but back when Vernes wrote this, he was writing a true thrill ride!

The story is of an underwater mission to seek and destroy a sea monster. That premise is turned on its head and the story takes a more scientific and character-based slant. Verne takes his readers on a trip to new worlds, some real and just recently discovered as well as his own fictionalized lands.

This must have been an edge-of-your-seater back when it came out. It looks a bit dated when held up to the light of the 21st century though. The writing is not stellar, but as pure adventure there are certain passages that still entertain and send someone like myself back to my childhood and that silly ride at Disney.
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January 2, 2023
No cabe duda que estoy frente a la mejor novela de Jules Verne que he le铆do y que creo leer茅 jam谩s.

Debo reconocer que antes de leer Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino le ten铆a cierto p谩nico y respeto a la obra (el respeto se lo sigo teniendo); hab铆a le铆do comentarios de lectores diciendo que era un libro altamente descriptivo, aburrido, que parec铆a una enciclopedia listando 煤nicamente especies de animales, que la aventura nunca llegaba, y que el final era decepcionante. Vamos a ver, todo lo que menciono podr铆a cumplirse si mi experiencia hubiera sido negativa, pero no puedo estar m谩s que feliz con el resultado de mi lectura, una experiencia que ha sido de lo mas entretenida y gratificante.

El libro en s铆 est谩 escrito con el estilo de Verne que ya la mayor铆a conocemos, sigue de hecho el mismo patr贸n que Viaje al centro de la Tierra y La vuelta al mundo en 80 d铆as, pero lo lleva al siguiente nivel al ser un libro, en mi opini贸n, m谩s redondo y m谩s completo. La novela, en efecto, es altamente descriptiva, especialmente porque el narrador, el profesor Aronnax, se detiene a mencionar todas las especies que observa en cada lugar por el que pasan, al igual que su criado Conseil, quien es muy bueno para clasificarlas. Algunas veces dan detalles de los animales o flora que se cruzan, otras veces luce como una lista de supermercado; no s茅 si ser茅 yo, pero jam谩s me aburri贸 el que fuera de esta forma, sin mencionar que el libro lo le铆 en conjunto con mi madre y al terminar nuestra tanda de cap铆tulos, tras haber anotado una serie de nombres, los busc谩bamos en YouTube para ver dichas especies en video y conocer un poco m谩s sobre ellos. 驴Si aprendimos algo tras hacer esta lectura? La pregunta mejor ser铆a, 驴qu茅 no aprendimos?

La aventura est谩 presente en cada cap铆tulo (o casi), donde nuestros protagonistas, tras haber sido secuestrados por el capit谩n Nemo 鈥攏o entrar茅 en detalles aqu铆 pero uno de ellos va desarrollando un caso de s铆ndrome de Estocolmo a lo largo de la historia鈥�, se adentran a las profundidades y en vez de 80 d铆as, aqu铆 recorrer谩n las 20,000 leguas del t铆tulo a lo largo y ancho del globo. Fue una historia que no pude soltar, que me manten铆a en ella cap铆tulo tras cap铆tulo y que incluso sent铆a que me estaba educando (tener cuidado en esto porque hay datos que, o son actualmente obsoletos, o son completamente inventados por Verne). Los personajes tambi茅n se vuelven inolvidables e irreemplazables y son 煤nicamente cuatro: Aronnax y Conseil, que ya mencion茅 anteriormente, Ned Land, un arponero canadiense que me record贸 ligeramente a una combinaci贸n de Starbuck y Queequeg de Moby Dick, y por supuesto, el enigm谩tico capit谩n Nemo.
Pienso que el capit谩n Nemo es y ser谩 el personaje m谩s emblem谩tico de Verne, un ser de lo m谩s misterioso, extra帽o y que adem谩s inspira respeto y sabidur铆a, un personaje que uno no termina de conocer, pero que con lo que se sabe de 茅l pienso que es m谩s que suficiente, ya que te mantiene en esa incertidumbre que te hace posicionarlo en ese lugar tan especial. Al final, y hablando del final de la historia, uno termina donde empez贸, lo que entiendo que pueda parecer decepcionante, pero para m铆 fue el mejor final que Verne podr铆a haber escrito, uno con m谩s preguntas que respuestas. Al menos en este caso me he quedado m谩s que satisfecho.

No hace falta decir que recomiendo ampliamente este libro, s铆 y s贸lo s铆:
A) eres fan de los libros de Verne
B) te gustan las historias ambientadas en el mar, pero sin un vocabulario tan t茅cnico y espec铆fico
C) tienes inter茅s por la vida marina a un nivel donde no te importa que te describan todo lo que ven, fauna, flora y dem谩s
D) no te importa quedarte con m谩s preguntas que respuestas al final
E) no tienes problema con que se mezclen unidades del sistema internacional y del anglosaj贸n desmesuradamente, donde, por ejemplo, la profundidad la mencionen en metros y la distancia en cables o en millas.

P.S. Una menci贸n honor铆fica a la editorial 狈贸谤诲颈肠补 por esta edici贸n tan bellamente ilustrada, con m谩s de 50 ilustraciones a color, donde la historia va cobrando vida a trav茅s de ellas.

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鈥擲铆, lo amo. El mar lo es todo. Cubre siete d茅cimas partes del globo terrestre. Su aliento es puro y sano. Es el inmenso desierto en el que el hombre nunca est谩 solo, pues siente latir la vida a su alrededor. El mar es el veh铆culo de una existencia prodigiosa y sobrenatural. Es movimiento y amor, es el infinito hecho vida, como dijo uno de sus poetas. En efecto, profesor, la naturaleza se manifiesta en 茅l por sus tres reinos: mineral, vegetal y animal. Este 煤ltimo est谩 ampliamente representado por los cuatro grupos de zo贸fitos, por tres clases de articulados, por cinco clases de moluscos, por tres clases de vertebrados, los mam铆feros, los reptiles y las incontables legiones de peces, orden infinito de animales que cuenta con m谩s de trece mil especies, de las que solo una d茅cima parte son de agua dulce. El mar es la gran reserva de la naturaleza. El mundo, por as铆 decirlo, comenz贸 en el mar, y qui茅n sabe si no terminar谩 en 茅l. En 茅l est谩 la tranquilidad suprema. El mar no pertenece a los d茅spotas. En su superficie, a煤n pueden ejercer sus inicuos derechos, pelearse, devorarse y transportar todos los horrores terrestres, pero a treinta pies de profundidad, su poder cesa, su influencia se extingue y su imperio desaparece. 隆Ah, se帽or, viva usted en el seno de los mares! 隆Solo ah铆 existe la independencia! 隆Ah铆 no reconozco se帽or alguno! 隆All铆 soy libre!
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