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Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, “That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?” only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.
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In the second half of this novel, Captain Nemo, along with the Nautilus and its hostages, encounter a series of ever so growing perilous encounters. After leaving the Mediterranean, the submarine continues through the Indian Ocean, where Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land witness incredible nautical marvels. However, Ned begins to grow impatient of living in the Nautilus. Wanting freedom from his hellish aquatic prison, he plans to escape.

In the first half of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, the story is told from the first-person point of view of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French naturalist. The story begins with tales of a mysterious sea creature wreaking havoc to ships at sea, leading to rumours of it being a sea monster. Professor Aronnax, along with his servant Conseil and Canadian harpooner Ned Land, is invited onto the USS Abraham Lincoln to hunt down the creature.

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Poor Conseil 😂
And poor hotel employees who'll have to feed a babirusa haha
(and poor babirusa that has to live in a hotel 🤣)

"In him I had an extremely capable specialist in natural history classification who could scale with the agility of a circus performer the ladder of branches, groups, classes, sub-classes, orders, families, genera, subgenera, species and varieties."

Finally starting this beauty! 😍
#HyggeHourReadathon

Have you ever passed by a book that you just had to have? How was I supposed to leave this gorgeous edition of Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" behind in the shop? Impossible!
Also, how amazing is this Penguin series of clothbound classics? I'm in love ?
Gotta "catch'em all" now ?

I think what's most remarkable is how much of this book can still be full of (fictional?) wonders for the average modern reader, the bottom of the ocean has not become less remote a prospect for most to explore despite 150 years of scientific and technological progress. 1/?

Interesting to see the cognitive dissonance at work in the characters that history shows on repeat: 'Don't hunt that for sport, it's endangered, but do hunt that, we want (don't NEED) to eat it, or that, because there's profit and plenty and we'll never run out.' 🤦🏼‍♂️

150 years ago, maybe...😞

Poor M. Aronnax. Compilation of 'the shark bit'. 🤭🦈

Well that's one perspective. 🙄

You...kicked it? Well, what is the process of scientific discovery but 'fuck around and find out' by another name?! 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

Having trouble nailing down a historical reference. Was there some precursor to night-vision goggles utilitized in the 1800s?!

You can't blame Jules, he wasn't to know how language would change. 🤭 Maybe it wouldn't look as naughty in the original French. 🤷🏼‍♂️

We're all capable of being credulous, just less so in our own field of study.

Current reads: A tentacular theme, fiction and non-fiction. 🐙
Also enjoying the 'muted-tones illustration' commonality in cover aesthetics.

So, I tried, but I did not want to pick this one up when I had time to read. I felt like there might have been a “good“ story in there, but all the jargon and just info dump took me out of the story that was trying to develop. So.... #DNF

#ReadYourKindle
@CBee

Got this magnet at Mystic Aquarium, thought it was super cute :)

Hmm. This might not even get to 20% mark

#ReadYourKindle
@CBee

I have always been interested in this particular subject.

Woohee…the book itself is ok. You know how sometimes a character asks a question just so someone else can show off in their answer, to show off how smart the author is? Welcome to this book. “I‘m Jules Verne and I did tons of marine research for this book so here it is” info dump, over and over. The voyage itself was actually interesting, but it was maybe 20% of the book. No idea how this is a “classic,” TBH. 👇🏻

20000 Leagues under the seas is the book I'm currently reading.

And - NO. I don't relate to any of the characters in this book. In fact, I passionately dislike most of them. It doesn't matter to me all the characters in this book are men so far. (Wow, I just realised not a single woman showed up or was even only mentioned in this book yet... Talk about patrialism in the 19th century 😅)
But that alone wouldn't matter to me. ⤵️

What the hell?

Just went from Pt 1 Ch 19 to Pt 2 Ch 3, and from here on out the chapters bounce all over the place.

I tried a different audio version, and the narrator was great! But there was no table of contents so no way to jump to where I left off and I am absolutely not starting over. 😫

Continuing with this audiobook, the narrator has also mispronounced aquatic (sounds like a duck in the middle), echinoderm (with a sh- instead of a -k), and I suspect multiple marine species but can‘t confirm any of them. How can a narrator of a book about undersea voyaging mispronounce aquatic? A lot of this is just rolling past my ears at this point, but to be honest it probably would anyway. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I‘ve been reading this as an audiobook while I get some chores done, so the first time I opened my print copy to figure out where I am I was pretty surprised to see the difference in translations, just in the table of contents. I hope when I pick it up it won‘t be too hard to switch.

The year 1866 was marked by a strange event, an unexplainable occurrence which is undoubtedly still fresh in everyone‘s memory. Those living in coastal towns or in the interior continents were aroused by all sorts of rumors; but it was seafaring people who were particularly excited.
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I‘m trying out this audiobook (I‘ve read very few audiobooks but I‘m still trying) to get some stuff done while kiddo is at dance camp.

At the 20% point, the narrator has mispronounced the composers Wagner and Weber, Senegal, comparable, and, most egregiously and frequently for this particular book, mollusk. It‘s driving me slowly insane.

2.75/5 🌕🌕🌖🌑🌑 #classic #sciencefiction

A view to the future! 👀

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Very slow, with minimal action.

In other words, this was an absolute snoozefest.

I always thought this book was about a giant squid 😅
It was not my type of book but definitely interesting.
Kind of makes you feel claustrophobic

Book mail! A freebie from Penguin bookmarks - I love the cover of this 🎐 One I read as a teenager and really had fun with it. Nice to have such a gorgeous copy.

Also reading this ebook

I tried for a few weeks but in the end I gave in. I made about 50% and realized I had a completely different expectation of the book that it just wasn‘t meeting. So I‘ll need to go back to drawing board for the #Booked2022 Nautical Adventure prompt.

The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no has yet forgotten.

#FirstLineFridays

Taking on a classic to knock one of the #Booked2022 prompts out.

Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, “That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?” only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself.
#20000LeaguesUnderTheSea #JulesVerne #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookvibe #bookvibes #bookvsfilm #bookvsmovie #bookbag #bookbags #bookbeau #Classics #ScienceFiction #Fiction 💝💝💝💝

📖 I‘m reading Sanditon with the #Pemberlittens but I also read a Jane Austen book every year.

📖 I‘m looking forward to reading the tagged book for a prompt for #Booked2022

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

Want to play:

Finally finished this one - a classic everyone knows, but only a few have read. I‘ve read the original translation which made it difficult sometimes (the German language changed a lot ever since). In general, every chapter is mini adventure on the Nautilus, which I liked. But there are a lot of descriptions of the underwater flora and fauna, sometimes too many and too detailed. And the ending was very aprupt and left questions open.

This “original” (now original ebook) version comes along with a lot of illustrations which help the reader to imagine the characters and the events. 😊

#BookCoverChallenge
Day 59.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.

"The sea was distinctly visible for a mile all round the Nautilus. What a spectacle! What pen can describe it? Who could paint the effects of the light through those transparent sheets of water, and the softness of the successive gradations from the lower to the superior strata of the ocean?"
I'd started re-reading it, leaving it here. The first time I read, I missed not a word. I was eleven and understood only some of the complicated terms in it.

I'm listening to this on Spotify because it's a classic I've always been interested in. I'm considering DNFing though because I'm bored. However, maybe the next half is better? I only listen when I'm washing dishes though so at least I'm not wasting time.

The year 1866 was marked by a strange event, an unexplainable occurrence which is undoubtedly still fresh in everyone‘s memory.
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What an adventure! Jules Verne has yet to disappoint me.

Written in 1870, this is the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after he, his servant Conseil, and Canadian harpoonist Ned Land wash up on their ship. #underwater #scifiseptember @Klou

The last prompt I need to read for #bbrc is #middlegrade #realclassic. I‘ve tried to finish this over the past 2 or 3 months and I just can‘t! I‘ve tried audio, print, even this abridged print and I just can‘t stick with it AT ALL. Hopefully can find something else in the next couple weeks before the challenge ends!

Jules Verne was ahead of his time. Great read.