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I picked this book up -- this specific edition -- because I saw it was illustrated by the Dillons. This was fortunate because it turned out that, contrary to my previously held belief, I had not read it. What I had read as a child was some heavily edited-for-excitingness version almost entirely absent the encyclopedic accounts of marine life and oceanic conditions that constitute the bulk of the text. So few are the actual adventures of Nemo and the Professor and his two companions that I now wo ...more
Read the abridged "Reader's Digest" version, folks - you won't miss anything but the sound of hours of your life flushing down the toilet.
The concept was interesting, but the book was light on plot and characterization and EXTREMELY heavy on scientific classification of flora/fauna of the ocean. I almost felt like Jules Verne had written this as a challenge to take a marine biologist's reference library and turn it into a story. You could skip whole tracts of dialogue and dissertation on the nat ...more
The concept was interesting, but the book was light on plot and characterization and EXTREMELY heavy on scientific classification of flora/fauna of the ocean. I almost felt like Jules Verne had written this as a challenge to take a marine biologist's reference library and turn it into a story. You could skip whole tracts of dialogue and dissertation on the nat ...more
It was on the slow side.
This is another grueling, painful read. I would give it one or two stars, but the book was "ahead of it's time". I'll admit, it really was. However, most of the book focuses on various types of fish in the ocean and their class, kingdom, phylum. The movement in the book was especially slow. I thought this would be a quick & easy read. The book was more like a night cap... one chapter per night and I was sound asleep...
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Dec 07, 2007
Brittany Darner
marked it as to-read
Apr 11, 2010
Meg
marked it as to-read
