Waterstones Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
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Description: A gorgeous edition of Jules Verne's landmark of science fiction and wonder, featuring full-colour art by Milo Winter. When Professor Pierre Aronnax and harpoonist Ned Land join an expedition to hunt a fierce 'whale' that has been sinking ships, they end up as captives of Captain Nemo, who prowls the sea in his magnificent submarine, the Nautilus. There, they discover a mysterious and sometimes dangerous underwater world. Waterstones Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781435162150
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Author: RF
Rating: 5
Review: Actually reading this again, I am reminded how great it is. Totally forgotten all the details. Amazing stuff.
Author: S. Huesler
Rating: 1
Review: That title may come as a bit of a surprise, considering the long-standing reputation of the book, and I may be stepping on others' toes, for which I apologize. But I read a book for its own merits, not for opinions of others. Certainly for his imagination, Jules Verne deserves full credit; he foresaw submarines for instance. But even the title is misleading: It's not 20,000 vertical leagues "under" as you would expect him to dive into alien worlds at the bottom of the ocean unreached, but 20,000 leagues horizontal, as captive on the mysterious Nautilus (which is not very much detailed in the book - only a few rooms are described to let the reader know they're in a small room here, or a library there, but no real "layout" of the grand vessel). He waffles on for pages at a time with lots of scientific-sounding names of fishes or plants that add nothing to the tale - I'd rather have ONE well described than know what 20 are called in Latin or French. Modern sensibilities of ecology and animal welfare will certainly be offended by the mindless slaughter and instinctual drive of "the Canadian", and indeed of the other characters, who all remain otherwise shallow and unexplored. There are too many scientific inaccuracies to count, errors of misinformation, but that's to be expected of a book published in 1869 and untouched by modern informed adaptation. Whales are set up as vicious creatures to be annihialated - I wonder how much negative influence his book had on sensibility toward whale hunting? My modern mind wanted to know what made the characters tick, and I read to the end unsatisfied on many counts, from plot to character arc to descriptive powers. Captain Nemo himself has no real redeeming qualities, and none of the characters are delved into in any depth. So much more could have been done with the story, which is probably what's inspired so many writers to say, "I could do better than that". Shallow and unworthy of its reputation.
