pickWhat a pleasurable book to read! I just loved traveling around the world with Philéas Fogg and Passepartout. A lot happens in these pages: misunderstandings, adventures, funny encounters, etc. And there is a lot of wit and humor, with also many surprises. It also educates the reader in an entertaining way about time, rules of physics, etc.
pickIn 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.
pickIn 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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pickA translation of the classic novel. I read it as a child but cannot remember now whether it was the original or a version adapted for children. I've seen the 1960s film version, a cartoon version, and bits of the TV version but I still saw David Niven as Phileas Fogg in my mind's eye while reading. It was a borrowed book, so I have no idea why Wallace and Grommit are on the cover.
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."
I DNF‘d Glory Over Everything- unfortunately this stoops a bit into melodrammmma (mellow DRAHma?) and I just can‘t. Cannot continue with the “OMG! Should I tell my truth OH NO! What if my secret is exposed?! OH MY!!”
Just. Can. Not.
So I found THIS in my audio library and . . . TIM CURRY!! 💗 It‘s SO good!! 😆🤩🥸
#classics #scifi #excellentnarration
