Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

I was looking forward to rereading this book, but noticed several details missing from what I thought I remembered from a previous version. Sure enough, when I went back to compare, it turns out that many short bits are missing. Sometimes they are simply short but confusing (like a couple lines of missing dialog on page 97) but other times they impact the whole storyline (like Captain Nemo using the Paris meridian, which should be on page 96). There are many other examples, leaving me overall disappointed.

There were a lot of points in the book that gave too much detail in describing sea creatures but it was not in a way that helps you imagine what they look like, so it just seemed like nonsense. Sometimes it would go on for paragraphs. Also the ending felt like a cop-out. Saying he doesn't remember the escape is just lazy.

Good book and fun read for the most part. My main gripe arises from the extended use of jargon and archaic vernacular to describe many of the sea life we, in modern society, have come to know and already appreciate. I can understand that reading this novel in 1868 would blow my mind, however today it is a curious read and nothing more.