Having trouble nailing down a historical reference. Was there some precursor to night-vision goggles utilitized in the 1800s?!
Having trouble nailing down a historical reference.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
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.
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.
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📖 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.
https://booksandt.home.blog/2020/04/16/magical-readathon-o-w-l-s-2020-weeks-1-an...
I finally wrote another blog post. Here I'm writing about my progress on the Magical Readathon. Please check it if you'd like. I tried to keep it short haha
#bookblogger #magicalreadathon
Thanks for the tag @TheAromaofBooks
#Ispy wild animals on book covers.
@Worley-B @rakeshpm @elissadickey my newest followers, if you‘re interested - can you find books with hands on the cover?
Most beautiful version I‘ve seen...so far
4 ⭐
I listened to this book. And while it was a bit slow, and sometimes boring as they describe the various sea creatures, overall it was a great story that I would listen to again. And to think it was written almost 150 years ago. Jules Verne knows or guessed more about the depths of the ocean than many modern scientists. This book has held the test of time, and I think that 100 years from now it will still be considered relevant
FR on LT GR
#ItsASmallWorld Day 24: #Nemo
#DisneyWorld #Epcot
This was such a fun ride, where the projections were on the aquarium‘s glass, with real fish inside! 🐠
Captain Nemo?! Yup, he‘s the captain of the Nautilus; on an expedition to see the deep wonders of the ocean. He also battled a giant squid 🦑 Nope, not the Kraken, but very similar.
Captain Nemo and myself.
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Definitely a classic of science fiction. It can be frustrating to get through some of the long lists of fish or the overly precise coordinates given and the action is a little underwhelming. However there is a sense of adventurous travel and camaraderie with the characters that make the book endearing by the end.
I found those great scarves perfect to show your bookworm style every where : the white one has a quote from pride and prejudice on it (about the need of libraries) and the blue one a quote from twenty thousand leagues under the sea (about the sea). My two loves books and the sea. Found them on literati club :)
And only here am I really sure people will understand the joy of it :)
Well... you could say I‘m disappointed. Zoophytes, cetacea, sturgeons, oxyrhynchi-blah blah blah! The story was told from the perspective of a scientist, but man, he droned on and on and on about fauna for ongoing paragraphs, which lead to pages. It felt more like homework than an engaging novel. Did I still like premise? Yes. Were the characters interesting and unique? Yes. Was the book super boring and wouldn‘t end? ABSOLUTELY.
“We now come to the second part of the journey under the sea.” Adventure books are some of the most intriguing reads! I especially love ones that talk to you, almost as if they are self-aware they wrote a book about said adventures. It makes it feel so lively and real.
I forgot to post about the new book I‘m reading! Jules Verne is someone so close to my heart and simultaneously, someone I‘ve never knew. (I watched Around the World in 80 Days + Journey to the Center of the Earth without knowing it was a book by this man).
Adventure awaits
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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