I like asking this every couple of months. I’m currently reading the first book of the Three Body Problem and the book I finished before it was a book about Angels by Billy Graham that my mother gave me when I was in middle school but finally read recently. Better late than never
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Yeah, my memory of it from middle school is "way too many words, painting a picture instead of actually going anywhere."
Its kinda like American Psycho in that way, wherein you keep reading for the handful of paragraphs per chapters that actually involve something happening. But that is deliberate in American Psycho and he expects you to start skipping so he can slip shit under your nose.
Jules Verne just seems like he had a great idea for a novella and then stretched it into a fucking doorstopper.