Title: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Release Date: The edition I have was first published August 30th 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 384 (paperback)
An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention - a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors, who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole, as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest villains ever created, takes his revenge on all society.
More than a marvelously thrilling drama, this classic novel, written in 1870, foretells with uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced technology of the twentieth century and has become a literary stepping-stone for generations of science fiction writers.
(I actually wrote a quite decent review of this book because it holds a special place in my heart, hehe.)
I first read this book when I was eight. While my classmates were rushing against one another to bring home Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, I was devouring our library's collection of Verne and Sherlock Holmes books. They were thick, with huge prints and illustrations - clearly intended for kids. One time, I took out a book in the morning, read it during breaktimes, then returned it in the afternoon of that same day before I went home.
I first read this book when I was eight. While my classmates were rushing against one another to bring home Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, I was devouring our library's collection of Verne and Sherlock Holmes books. They were thick, with huge prints and illustrations - clearly intended for kids. One time, I took out a book in the morning, read it during breaktimes, then returned it in the afternoon of that same day before I went home.
Of all the titles in that collection, Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea ended up being my favorite. So, more than ten
years later, when I saw it again in the bookstore, I knew I just had to
relive the adventure again. It had been a light and fast read in that
small, thick book from third grade, so I certainly didn't expect it to
be long and, frankly speaking, quite dragging in its unabridged form.
That said, it was still a better adventure than before. If Verne didn't
expound too much on the sea creature naming, this book would've been
paced faster, but less believable too since he wrote it in a professor's
point of view.
In all, I still loved it and I look forward to
re-reading his two other books that I first read a decade ago: Around
The World In 80 Days, and A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
RATING: 3.5/5
(photo and summary from Goodreads.com)
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