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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The first submarine novel.
Review: This is Verne's classic novel about Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus. What really fascinated me when reading this story and other Verne novels was not only Verne's contributions to the science fiction genre, but his founding of a whole new genre, one that, as far as I know, he has never been given credit. I think Verne was one of the first to write the techno-novel, a work that is filled with technical details ala Tom Clancy. For this novel, Verne did considerable research to describe what was known as accurately as possible. Professor Arronax and his servant Conseil board a U. S. ship that is searching for a monster that has sunk a number of other ships. They discover that it isn't a monster at all but a submarine, captained by a mysterious man known only as Nemo (Verne will present readers with Nemo once again in "The Mysterious Island"). Arronax, Conseil, and an American harpooner named Ned Land travel with Nemo and see many wonderous things and have many adventures. Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" has gotten some very poor reviews over the decades since it first appeared in 1869. In many cases, it was because of the translation and not because of Verne. A number of the early translators inserted their own sections with their own ideas and opinions and deleted much of Verne's own words. So, readers should be aware of the translator. I read an excellent translation by Walter James Miller that was also annotated. Such an annotated volume can prove to be very helpful to teenagers getting acquainted with Nemo and his submarine.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is a very exciting and competitive book
Review: This is one of my favorite novels of all.it is about two men almost drowwn when they see a sub and jump into it and become sort of prisoners.they are traveling all over the sea as they face many dangers.Such as squid and traped in an ice cave under water.I recomend this book for any body!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It was great! I loved it!
Review: I loved this book and I would recommend this book to anyone. I think you should read this book before you leave High School. On a scale of one to five, one being the worst and five being the best. I would give it a five. I really enjoyed this book. The characters were very realistic and had life and emotion so you could relate to the characters their fear their joy and their sadness. They are three-dimensional characters. Not some flat two-dimensional characters who not feel and just act. It's easy to see why it's a classic. The book has a lot of action and adventure and even some mystery and lots of suspense. If you love any of these things, you should read this book. I found the way Conseil talks strange. Talking always in the third person I mean. Who actually goes around calling themselves by their first name? Looking up all the different animal and plant names that appear in this story must have taken forever as well as knowing where all these places were. He amazing he can fit all this information into one book an make it interesting. From reading this book, it refreshed my memory of the places in the world. The time from they were captured until they escaped only lasted six months. It seems to see all that they did see would have taken over a year. They did travel 60,000 miles. 1 leauge = 3 miles. Over all a great book and I loved it and you will to. Its a good sized book but don't be intimidated by it once you start its hard to stop.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Captain Nemo..................period.
Review: This is one of my all-time favorite novels. I really like this book because of its descriptive ideas and interesting plot. Captain Nemo IS the best villian ever created. He draws you into the story by his intelect, then slams the door in your face with is rediculous temper. The many trips taken by the characters are a vivid trip through the underwater heavens below us. READ THIS BOOK!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the all time greatest works of science fiction.
Review: This book set the standard for all pieces of poop

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I thought it was good and bad.
Review: I liked the book because the idea was excellant, it had very cool adventures, and the idea of a submarine like that in Verne's time was in the future. My favorite part is when Ned saved Captain Nemo from the shark. I didn't like the idea that the submarine sank ships because Captain Nemo is one of my favorite characters.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great description+plot
Review: I think that this book had great characters with awsome personalitites and description. I loved how the story changed from a college like setting in a university to an adventures setting in the middle of the fiery ocean. The book ended great satisfying the reader(me). I would reccomend this book for anyone ages 10 and up.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I liked this book from cover to cover!
Review: I found this book to very descriptive, and full of adventures it has a very good begging, and then It kind of fades off to not very well in the middle and the end. I was still pleased at all of the adventures that were going on while I have been reading it. I was very interested in it even though it was dull at parts, but in other parts I found it was very exciting, from the hunting in the ocean to the giant squid. Which attacked them. The author was very good at detail and I was able to see what the author was talking about in all of the different parts of the oceans, and the ship, which they worked and slept, and ate in. I would refer this book to others if they like adventures of underwater and the unknown. On a fiction side.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 20,000 Leagues
Review: M. Arronax and his two companions, Ned Land and Conceil, are taken captive on board the Nautalis. They see many magnificent sites. These sites include the lost contanent of Atlantis, huge clams and pearls, sunken ships, the inside of a volcano, and much more.They also hve many adventures. I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes sci-fi and adventure stories. I do recommend reading it when you are in high school. Read it and Check it out!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 3 men who are in a sub and tour the world.
Review: This book was VERY BAD. I HATED it. It is a big book with lots of words. Take my advice and STAY AWAY. I would give this book 0 stars but the minimum they let is 1.


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