Sunday, July 28, 2013

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Have finally picked it up and started reading it after all these years.  33 years ago in 6th grade, I got ahold of the abridged children's version of it, and read it for an oral book report.  The next year, I was due to give another oral book report, and reread it (for some reason or other, the teacher never ended up assigning us the report).  So I've always know the basic premise of the story.

Never read through Moby Dick either.  I once picked it up around that same time, got to the part where they caught the whale and served up all the meat of it to the crew, then never returned to it.  Of course, I hadn't read either The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye until about 10 and five years ago respectively.

At some point, I'd also like to check out Paris in the Twentieth Century, the Jules Verne novel that never got published until almost 20 years ago.

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