Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (edit title)

• Rated 4 stars

“Its funny how ahead of his time this guy was.”

• Rated 4 stars

“I loved this book!!! Granted, I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much if I read this earlier in life. After several years of homeschooling, I've learned alot - which made reading this book much more pleasurable. I read it to my 10 yr old and 7 yr old. They begged me to read it every day. It took a few weeks, but we finished it. One of those books I couldn't wait to find out the ending, but I was sad we had finished it. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is the fact that in some places there was alot of technical classification terms. Although we've been studying these terms - it got a little cumbersome to read. An entire paragraph dedicated to describing all the fish they saw was sometimes interesting, but other times it was a little much.”

• Rated 0 stars

“I haven't read it yet”

• Rated 3 stars

“amm.... it's ok”

• Rated 2 stars

“it was ok”

• Rated 4 stars

“my dad said it is awesome so I can't wait to read it!


Maddie”

• Rated 4 stars

“As an adventure story, there are few that can touch this classic. I remember reading through this book around 10 years old and how much I loved reading about all of the various life forms beneath the sea. I also credit this book for my fascination with all things aquatic.

There's a lot of criticism on all of the technical jargon included in this book and I don't really understand that. If this doesn't interest the reader it's simple to just skim over the information and or skip it altogether. It's not vital to the story, it just enriches it. But enrichment aside, the story does well standing on its own.

Jules Verne's interest in science is so incredibly apparent. He really was a man before his time. Everything had a plausible explanation (although I admit to not having much knowledge in the areas he was writing on).

His characters were rich and full of life. Nemo was deliciously mysterious throughout the entire length of the book. The Dr., his man servant and Ned all had their own distinct personalities.

My father recommended I read this book again (he actually wanted me to read the third in the trilogy - In Search of the Castaways being the second, and The Mysterious Island being the third) and I'm glad I did. So often people talk about the classics and if you haven't read one in a while it seems like the stories are remembered as dull and hard to read, but once again, as I dove back into this classic book, I was reminded of why I read so many of them as a young teenager. ”

• Rated 1 stars

“This book was not very good. I thought it was too slow, and there was not enough action. It got really boring.”

• Rated 3 stars

“Jules Verne's exciting science fiction adventure story of a submarine and its captain fighting a personal war and battling a giant squid in the ocean depths.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Looked weird but was pretty good.”