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Summary: Not a good read
Review: I am sorry to say, but this book was without a doubt, one of the wrost books I have ever read in my life. The story dose have plot but that is about all the good things that go along with the story. I also did enjoy how Verne made up basic human needs from using marine and plant life from the sea. The last thing that was good, was when the crew of the Natulius had to fight the giant squid, they are called something else in the book, but I didn't pay attention. Those are the ONLY good factors about this book. The author spends more time on description of the water than the action of the book. I found that very dull and boring. When I first read the book, I had heard great things about it, but when I read the book, I was very disspointed. Take my advise, don't read the book.
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Summary: Too dull through most of the story
Review: I agree with most of the other reviews in the sense that there are four or five scenes in this book that get your heart-pumping. Unfortunately that accounts for about a quarter of the book. The rest is full of detailed descriptions of sea life that would appeal to the most passionate environmentalist. The story was interesting, but you have to plow through a lot of boring text. Have a pot of coffee ready!
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Summary: Not Just Classic, Not Just Adventure
Review: Anyone can write an adventure novel. But Jules Verne combines fact, history, theory, and fiction so convincingly well that this novel flows like an actual, truthful, account. There are often such detailed and in depth descriptions that it seems like it came right out of a scientist's mouth. An amazing blend of fact and fiction, this novel really stands out for being so convincing.Some people turn away from classics simply for being classics, (I'm guilty of it too), but really, right to the last chapter there is adventure, peril, and excitement. If you want to read it for the great ocean life descriptions, the antisocial of all antisocialists, Captain Nemo, or for the unique adventure and the creative story, I would highly recommend this.
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Summary: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Review: Excellent book for young adults and grownups alike. It is difficult to imagine that this book was first published in 1870.
I still have my original copy; the annotated Walter James Miller edition(1976) by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Was Verne the first true science fiction writer in the world? I'm not sure, but Nemo is a complicated figure. Anti-colonialist, scientific & engineering genius, expatriate, madman? Professor Pierre Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land provide the foils for Nemo's adventures. Highly recommended!
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Summary: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Review: This was a very interesting book. The world is being terrorized by a giant narwhale, so they think. So America decides to send out an expedition to find and kill this narwhale. On the ship is Professor Aronnox and his assistant Conseil, and Ned Land. Ned Land is the best harpooner in the world. Their ship is attacked be the narwhale and the three guys fall off the ship. They land on the narwhale and find out it is just a big submarine. The captain of the ship, Captain Nemo, decides to let them live and travel the world with them as captives. They visit many exciting places and see a lot of wonders of the ocean. 10 months after being on board the Nautilus they try to escape in a small boat. They then realized that there is a whirlpool. All three of the men are knocked unconscious and wake up on land having no clue how they got there.
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Summary: I only gave it 1 because you can't give it 0.
Review: Don't get it. It was the worst $[amount] I ever spent on something. It has an impossible-to-follow story line and a boring, boring, plot. Classical? Harry Potter's more Classical than this. Save your $[amount], buy gum or something, I don't know.
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Summary: The Great Adventure Under the Sea
Review: The main character of the book is Captain Nemo. He had hard time obeying the laws. So he came up with the idea to hide in the sea where nobody could find him. He built a submarine with the help of his partners. In those days scientists only new about tiny sparks of electricity. Captain Nemo figured out how to use it for his submarine. Unfortunately his submarine was ruining other ships. People thought that the submarine was a sea monster with a horn that swam very fast.
Ned was a sailor on the explorer boat. When submarine went up for air it broke Ned's ship with its horn. Ned landed on emerging submarine right when Captain Nemo opened hatch to get air. Nemo took Ned and his friends inside of the submarine. Nemo showed them around the submarine and said he would not let them go, because he did not wont to spoil his secret. Ned's two friends had wonderful time on the submarine. They like to go under water in the suits Captain Nemo invented and search for pearls and animals. But Ned was nervous and he would not go anywhere. He wanted to go back home. He was afraid what he will be killed by the army ship which was searching for sea monster. He was able to signal for help to army ship with the flag.
I love this book because it has a lot of adventures.
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Summary: The original adventure novel.
Review: If you like adventure books, struggle through this one. It's a must-read for anyone who enjoys the classics.
I will admit there were some times when it dragged, and some times when it dragged quite a bit, especially when he endlessly described the flora and fauna of undersea life (you almost have to read "The Origin of Species" along with it) but it really was interesting.
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Summary: 20 Thousand Rocks
Review: If you have second thoughts about buying or reading this book, it's a must for all children interested. If you've seen the movie, it's completely different, but the characters are almost the same. But what they do is TOTALLY different from that of the movie's version. But I Dare Not Say Any More, you'll have to see what I mean, when you read it. IF YOU DARE!
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Summary: a must read for kids in grade 6-8
Review: Verne,Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. New York : Scholastic Inc. 2000 426 pp. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an exciting and adventurous fiction book that will make you want a sequel.
I like this book because it has great detail and well told sentences. One of my favorite parts is when the Cachalots which are huge whale like creatures that attacked the whales and the the crew ran into the cachalots with the Nautilus and save the whales on pp. 319-322.
The main characters in the book are Mr. Arronox and his servant Conseil with a Canadian harpooner Mr. Nedland and the Captain of the Nautilus Captain Nemo who imprisons them on the Nautilus but lets them go about freely around the ship. How they got on the Nautilus was believed to be a sea monster that wrecked many ships all over the world . Mr. Arronox , Conseil ,and Mr. Nedland are chosen to go out on a ship called the Abraham Lincoln to track down the monster and bring it back but what they think is the sea monster but is really the Nautilus. When they try to attack it the ship sinks the Abraham and when they wake up they find themselves upon the Nautilus...
I would recommend this book for kids who can understand big words and are in grade 6-8.
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