20,000 Leagues of Boredom

Finally the arduous journey has ended. I felt just as trapped by this book as if I were a prisoner on a submarine!
Why I didn't like it:
1st and foremost, the whole thing was too archaic for my taste. Much of the book was his speculations many of which were way off. To him many things were wonderfully imaginative, but to modern common knowledge he's way off. Everything in the ocean according to Jules is phosphorescent. The whole ocean is glowing. I've been scuba diving and in that short amount of time I learned too much to get sucked into to Julesies adventure. While this is my 1st reason I also here cut the most slack. The dude lived in the 1800's and for his time he did pretty well. I just didn't connect with the time. I think that's because it's an 19Th century adventure taking place in a foreign world. But the world is not so foreign to me and I just couldn't get pulled with half of my brain constantly shouting, "Wrong, Wrong that fish isn't real"
2ND: Intense drama would be going on and the narrative would push it aside with pages of lists. Lists of what you ask? FISH!! The stupid fish that the professor was seeing outside the lounge window. Page after page of fish classifications. At one point Nemo and Ned Land are both fuming and the Nautilus is driving aimlessly through the ocean, tense right. Wrong! in the middle of the we describe the aquatic life floating out of the window! Not only describe but classify three pages worth. The first page being a list of fish already classified in another ocean! For the love of my simple sanity shut up!!!
3rd: He, or at least the translator has no skill for action. Moments that could be exciting were listed off with the same droll as the fish classifications.
My greatest example to illustrate how much this book sucked, is that Captain Nemo has a pipe organ on his little boat and I don't care, it couldn't save the book.
I will say that the ending picked up and finally addressed the mysteries of Nemo,and got into a little meat of the moment, but why not write that way the entire book and make it good. Instead it was crap. Interesting note though. According to my book Verne has been largely mistranslated over the years. My version bragged itself up as being true to the original, but if that's the original than it's no surprise the translators attempted to spice it up. They must have been trying to sell books instead of speculative fish encyclopedias.