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On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks
Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera ... first Janet and John books, or all those damn Bobbsey twin books at school. The first real book I remember reading was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea although my parents say I read Alice in Wonderland before that I was 7 or 8 at the time. ... five works of older stuff I've read in the past year or so, the only ones I found really disappointing were Dracula and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Not that they were bad, but I couldn't stop comparing them to their much more suspenseful, dramatic 20th Century counterparts.
On ... ... it also listed The First Men in the Moon, Pilgrim's Progress, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, The Water Babies, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, The Call of the Wild, and The 39 Steps. The only book I remember reading simply because it was on the list was Anstey's The Brass ... ... of the Wild.
Did anyone mention Moby Dick, the quintessential white whale?
Or that quintessential Giant Squid in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?
Of course, there's Old Yeller, the pet with a heart of gold and a brain full of *** SPOiLER ALERT!!! *** hydrophobia.
... and some others were available in YA and adult before HP. I'm thinking specifically of the old Puffin Classics. Stuff like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island. The double covers for Harry Potter never materialized in the U.S., so I don't think about it I ... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A Wizard of Earthsea
On Blue's Waters
The Pacific and other Stories
Two Years Before the Mast subtitled "a Personal Narrative of Life At Sea" I think Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is worth bringing up in this thread. The book has its charms, but the movie ditches a lot of the travellogue aspect for a fairly decent exploration of the morality of violence. (Or at least pretty solid for a mid-century Disney film!) Captain Nemo ... ... in the 60s. From what I hear, the movie provides enough atmosphere to keep the proceeding from becoming campy.
13. 20,000 leagues under the sea
Speaking of the movie being better than the book. I was a huge fan of the movie as a kid, and a recent rewatch convinced me it´s aged well. ... ... src="wiki/images/1/1d/2008-03-08_sm.jpg" /> Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea I thoroughly enjoyed my excursion with Simon Scarrow's The Generals and will be looking out for the prequel in London ...7. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - finished 2/23/08
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid, so I don't know why it took me so long to get around to the book itself. (Especially as I had read quite a bit of H.G. Wells as a kid, so I was no stranger to 19th Ce ... ... think of categories, so here was my first one:
Classics I should have Read by Now
1. Iliad by Homer
2. Beowulf
3. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne finished 2/19/08
4. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
5. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain **started 3/1/08
6. The Grapes ... ... of Classics Illustrated comics, the SF titles of which include:
DR JEKYLL and MR. HYDE
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
TIME MACHINE
A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
FIRST MEN IN THE MOON ... I haven't read too many books so far, BUT I've read several really good ones -
20000 Leagues Under the Sea
Candide or Optimism
Reading Judas The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
Water for Elephants
I also read and actively disliked The Virgin Suicides. I finished ... 4 hours of volunteering and 4 books for less than a dollar each. I call that a good start to the month.
Today I got:
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Red Badge of Courage
The Mysterious Mr. Quin
Jane Eyre I just finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne today at lunchtime. Great book. If anybody wants to read it, just make sure you get the Miller and Walter's 1993 Translation published by The Naval Institute Press.
I'm going to start The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex ... Finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
I'm going to start The True Meaning of Smekday next. Wow! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a great read. I'm starting The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex. Neither touchstone is working.
I thought I'd drop a note regarding Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea which I started shortly after finishing Moby Dick. Verne is a little less digressive than Melville, but his digressions are a little less interesting because they're not really working on theme or character the ... Finished Candide or OPtimism the other day and have started my first Classic - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I'm reading a new translation - apparently the original translation into english was woefully inadequate. Up to page 93 and I'm really enjoying it. ... Vane.
I envy you discovering Dorothy Sayers and having all her wonderful books ahead of you!
I have just started 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I've picked 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. So far so good. This is the Miller/Walter transltion of 1989-1991 - apparently earlier translations were incomplete and misleading. Page 42 and it's a great read so far. ... stranger before the final confrontation with the whale is pitch perfect.
Shortly after finishing Moby Dick, I started on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (another "ocean voyage") which seems to be paying a certain degree of homage to Moby Dick. A few examples: A sum of $2000 is set aside ... Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
The Voyage of the Basset by James Christensen
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen ... for Owen Meany
2 Death of a Salesman
3 Dangling Man
4 For Whom the Bell Tolls
5 The Dispossesed
6 Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
7 Desolation Angels
8 The Last Temptation of Christ
SO where should 20,000 leagues under the sea be filed?
Currently it sorts as 20
rather than 20000
or the probable ideal option of twe - this latter might be a bit difficult to code though?
... fiction and graphic novels. I've read so many of the books referenced in this installment (most obviously Dracula, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Invisible Man, but also She, King Solomon's Mines, Sherlock Holmes stories, and other more offhand references). Edited: I forgot D ... 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne I don't like Jane Eyre but it is certainly more entertaining reading the 20000 leagues. The 'action' parts have all the same dullness as Jane, but between the action bits you get endless descriptions of fish. this is actualy worse. I know its hard to believe but its true. Just bought Jane Eyre after reading about it in this thread. Would start reading it after finishing my current book (Twenty thousand leagues under the sea). oh, of course - 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne was my first science fiction book... how could I forget. The Riverkeepers by John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jule Verne
The Night Ocean by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow
The Creature from Miller's Pond by Susan Saunders
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin ... care for or even about the characters either. I know Busifer disagrees with me and loved this. But I found it a huge slog. 20000 leagues under the sea isn't much better - a little bit of action and pages and pages of fish descriptions - I mean I like fish, but there are limits to how much I ... ... drawings, captivating covers, but best of all (for my purposes) there are lots of titles that appeal to boys. He began with 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea (at 18, he's still interested in every new report of a giant squid), then devoured others by Jules Verne, then White Fang (that one led ... The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne It's the sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's also absolute dreck. Having to do with Andersonville Civil War prisoners making a hot air balloon to escape and land on this deserted island where Nemo just happened to park the Nautilus while he is ... I think I start having trouble with Phobos's list about number 28 as of those listed to that point, it is a fantasy. 20,000 leagues under the sea has some elements of science fiction to it, but I see it as more of a fantasy in these modern times. Also saw Alice in Wonderland in the list, again ... 20000 is perhaps the book I wish I hadn't bothered to struggle through, I really didn't care and still don't what types of fish and coral he saw out the window. Just get on with the story.
eco has already had a mention foucault's was enough to puit me off any others. Stephenson ... J'ai trouvé que le lien pour 20,000 leagues under the sea fonctionne seulement si le titre est en anglais - c'est le problème des oeuvres encore.
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