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Hi all!

This is the Pre-Read thread for the Februay 2021 Classics selection. This month we will be reading Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]. Please note that this is a SPOILER FREE discussion.

Who's planning to join in on this read? What are your expectations in picking this book up? Why are you interested in this topic?

I may have just finished this book, haha! I was already listening to this when the email came that it was going to be one of the February books, heheh.

So I won't be joining in, but if I remember I might check in to the spoilers thread!

My expectations were quite high, having read Around the World in Eighty Days in 2019, and me loving that book made me interested in reading more. Of course this is one of the most famous of his novels so when I saw it in a second hand store I picked it up last year (or two years ago, who even knows anymore). (I then listened to an audio version but shh).

I also adore marine life so that definitely helped getting me excited for this novel!

I have a huge bind up of seven of Jules Vernes novels and I haven't read a single one yet. So I'm excited to get a crack on it! I use to listen to a version of the story on vinyl as a kid, I have no idea how close it followed the book but I'm excited to find out.

This was offered with the Audible Catalog a few weeks before this was chosen as the February book. Perfect timing

I only have fuzzy memories of seeing adaptations about Vernes work. I hope it will be a good time.

Just a little question. Was it normal for people to have a beef with Jules Vernes in the seventies? The guy wrote the prologue (he was also the translator) of my copy really didn't like Vernes. I was just confused at the guy how is supposed to get you interested in the story, go out of his way to call the author's body of work vulgar, mediocre and "literature".

I'm asking because I read a prolog in The Time Machine edition that also took shots at the guy. However they were nicer, they called him boring next to H. G. Wells.

Listening to this now. Borrowed the audiobook through my local library. It’s read by Harlan Ellison and it’s the most entertaining book I’ve ever listened to! Ellison is so animated, I can’t help but be sucked right in. If you have access to this version, do it!!

Kendyl wrote: "Listening to this now. Borrowed the audiobook through my local library. It’s read by Harlan Ellison and it’s the most entertaining book I’ve ever listened to! Ellison is so animated, I can’t help b..."

It sounds great, but I always get worried when a hear him. I remember him being super passionate in his voice work. He will always by the voice of AM to me.

starting this one today!!

Re-reading it! Starting today!

Ordered the audio from my local library.

"... disagreeable territory of Nebraska..."

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I just started this yesterday and so far am really enjoying it. I wanted to read this last summer but never got around to it. I’m alternating reading on my kindle & listening to it on audible.

I’m joining this read since I’ve never actually read this classic.

I am very happy years ago I bought a globe.

I have never read this classic work, so I am genuinely "catching up" this month. I started reading at the very beginning of the month and I'm about halfway through the book now.

I'm very excited to be reading this book and sharing the experience with all of you!

I don’t think it has ever even occurred to me that I might read a Jules Verne book. So I will definitely start it this evening.