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Oh, this book just tore my heart out, it is so beautiful. All the good characters are so wonderful, the heroes are marvelous, the heroines are so sweet; but the villains are all so repugnant, repulsive, horrifying.
Quite a powerful novel. I love love love it!
Quite a powerful novel. I love love love it!
Only partially read, All about seances and spiritualism mixed with Christianity and ghosts. Not recommended.
Rather long and involved with details, but hilariously funny and interesting.
Ah, the dark consequences of petulant selfishness. Marvelous story, and not too preachy!
Delightful, of course. Just as lovely rereading it for the 10th time.
This book is so racist and boring. I couldn't even finish it. I stopped around page 150, so I definitely gave it a chance.
First of all, it's a typical Robinson Crusoe castaways-on-a-desert-island story; and while I normally enjoy all those little survival details, this one bored me to tears. The descriptions of each tiny little promontory, hill, river, stream, and divot in the ground go on and on until I want to scream. Then those stupid details are repeated! Actually repeated again, as if I wasn't already bored the first time.
Then the racist comments kept coming. There is one African-American man in this book amongst a bunch of white guys, and he is portrayed as the loyal devoted servant "whom nature has fitted for service". It just made me sick. Granted, the story is set during the American Civil War, and the author probably thought he was being liberal and generous to make the guy a free man instead of a slave, but history is no excuse! Makes me angry. Usually I try to ignore any sexist or racist remarks in old classics, because it was the prevalent attitude of the times in history, and I just try to enjoy the main story anyway. I embrace the good in the story, and reject and ignore the bad. But this time, I just couldn't. bleh.
The plot is drawn out way too much. I don't need a whole chapter to tell me that they climbed to the top of the mountain and found out that they are, indeed, on an island. You could have done that in 5 or 6 sentences. Argh.
It's a pity, because I have enjoyed so many of Jules Verne's other books. This is definitely NOT his best work.
First of all, it's a typical Robinson Crusoe castaways-on-a-desert-island story; and while I normally enjoy all those little survival details, this one bored me to tears. The descriptions of each tiny little promontory, hill, river, stream, and divot in the ground go on and on until I want to scream. Then those stupid details are repeated! Actually repeated again, as if I wasn't already bored the first time.
Then the racist comments kept coming. There is one African-American man in this book amongst a bunch of white guys, and he is portrayed as the loyal devoted servant "whom nature has fitted for service". It just made me sick. Granted, the story is set during the American Civil War, and the author probably thought he was being liberal and generous to make the guy a free man instead of a slave, but history is no excuse! Makes me angry. Usually I try to ignore any sexist or racist remarks in old classics, because it was the prevalent attitude of the times in history, and I just try to enjoy the main story anyway. I embrace the good in the story, and reject and ignore the bad. But this time, I just couldn't. bleh.
The plot is drawn out way too much. I don't need a whole chapter to tell me that they climbed to the top of the mountain and found out that they are, indeed, on an island. You could have done that in 5 or 6 sentences. Argh.
It's a pity, because I have enjoyed so many of Jules Verne's other books. This is definitely NOT his best work.