Ebook Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Tác Giả Jules Verne

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Introduction of the ebook: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown ove When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the “monster” is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo. Thus begins a journey of 20,000 leagues—nearly 50,000 miles—that will take Captain Nemo, his crew, and these three adventurers on a journey of discovery through undersea forests, coral graveyards, miles-deep trenches, and even the sunken ruins of Atlantis. Jules Verne’s novel of undersea exploration has been captivating readers ever since its first publication in 1870, and Frederick Paul Walter’s reader-friendly, scientifically meticulous translation of this visionary science fiction classic is complete and unabridged down to the smallest substantive detail. …more

Review ebook Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Hands down the WORST book I’ve read all year.
I mean, there’s boring and then there’s mind-numbing. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is definitely the latter.

I was actually looking forward to listening to this. It’s supposed to be a classic action/adventure sci-fi book, right? And it’s not an overly long book, which made me assume it was a pretty compact story. Plus, I usually have better luck when it comes to these older novels if I listen to the audiobook instead of trying to wade through all the Hands down the WORST book I’ve read all year.
I mean, there’s boring and then there’s mind-numbing. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is definitely the latter.

I was actually looking forward to listening to this. It’s supposed to be a classic action/adventure sci-fi book, right? And it’s not an overly long book, which made me assume it was a pretty compact story. Plus, I usually have better luck when it comes to these older novels if I listen to the audiobook instead of trying to wade through all the crunchy dialogue with my eyeballs. So, between those factors, I thought this would be a complete winner.
But ho-ly shit this was terrible.
Terrible!

Ok, how to describe this book?
Alright. If a really tedious nature show fucked a 5th grade word problem and didn’t use a condom – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea would be their bastard child.
The vast majority of this thing:
Lattitude 54, Longitude 45. <–or whatever.
On the {insert random date here} the crew of the Nautilus and my companions entered the {insert random body of water here} and observed {insert random sea life here}.
Then Aronnax would go on to describe in excruciating detail every fucking thing about whatever chunk of seaweed, fish, oyster bed, sediment, etc. that they happened to be floating past.
Now, sometimes my mind will wander for a second when I’m listening to an audiobook. Usually, it’s one of those Did I remember to give my kid the check for that field trip? things that distract me. And then I’ll just have to back the book up a few seconds to recoup whatever info I just lost. But with this one, I was spacing out constantly due to the fact that there was literally NOTHING happening. But I could lose half an hour and it wouldn’t fucking matter because the professor would still be droning on about different types of pearls and how they were made, and what colors there were, and how much each kind sold for on the open market, and whether or not the oyster wept when they were gone.
Or some other such nonsense.

Where was the action I was promised?! Where was the adventure?!
Not here, that’s for goddamn sure.
Still, I remembered hearing about the famous Scene With The Giant Squid and I figured it might make all of this other garbage worth wading through.
Supposedly, it was this super awesome battle between man and cephalopod that left a lasting impression on people. <–I should have known better.

Lamest. Battle. Ever.
Let me save you some trouble. See, I thought that there was some menacing squid following them that decided to attack the sub and try to drag it to the bottom, or crush it with its massive tentacles, or break it open to slurp out the crew with a straw, or…something. Anything!
But no.
A group of big-ass squids was swimming by, a few got curious, one of the poor bastards got tangled around the fan or whatnot, and then when the crew when out to “fight” it off the Nautilus one of them got tossed off and killed. Oh, and Ned almost got eaten but Nemo hacked at the squid’s beak and saved him.
The End.
Bah.

There was a shining moment when I thought things were going to finally get cool as the Nautilus passed over Atlantis.
Fucking Atlantis! <–Yes!
These turds got out to explore every dull coral bed along the way, so surely they would stop and meander around this magically advanced civilization, right?
Nope.
They just floated on past it.
Bye, Aquaman…

And after that, I think I just lost the will to even try to muster up a few shits for the rest of it.

Nemo’s quitting land because of {insert spoilery things here} was also ridiculous but I could have easily given it a pass if this were a remotely engaging story otherwise. Since it wasn’t, that was just ONE MORE THING that I found annoying. I mean, really? Why the hell would anyone go to all that trouble of building this masterpiece of a submarine just for revenge? Just track the fuckers down and shoot them in the head. It would be waaaaay easier and ultimately less time-consuming.
Oh, and their stupid secret language that they spoke on board? It was probably Pig Latin, because everything else they did seemed like something thought up by a 10 year old.
Why keep Aronnax, Conseil, & Ned prisoner just because they had seen the Nautilus? <–made no sense!
It’s not as though anyone could track them down even if those guys spilled the beans!
They were literally the ONLY submarine in the world at that point and the oceans are HUGE.
Again, I would have overlooked that with pleasure if I weren’t so pissed off with this boring time-suck.

The only fun thing about this was Ned Land. <–harpooner extraordinaire
Just the fact that he is the ONLY surly Canadian I’ve ever read about was almost worth the price of admission. Seriously. Name another volatile Canuck in literature.
Kind of hard to do, eh?
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Or is it, Bub?

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Anyway. It may be hard to tell but I didn’t actually like this very much.