Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Excessive detail at times; it was hard to stay focused. The characters are well developed but the climax was ... anticlimactic to say the least. I was planning on reading the original French version of this but the text will be dated. It might do the plot more justice reading it in it's intended flavor but I don't think I have the patience to endure those mind-numbing paragraphs about ocean life again.