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No.12444 Anonymous>>12503 2026-09-15 20:50:42
Book Review
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Per the request of this board’s administration, I will be conducting a book review:

Last month I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and it sucked. There was no story, there was no character development, it was just 300 pages of Jules Verne talking about fish. Never read, just watch movies and argue with unemployed grad students on petrarchan.com.

This concludes my review.
No.12472 Anonymous>>12473 2026-09-16 04:29:15
One thing I wonder about these early sci fi authors like Verne and HG Wells, who seem to be generally considered a cut above regular sci-fi in literary circles, is whether they were writing for a literary audience in their day, or if they were writing popular / genre fiction that has been elevated to a higher echelon over time by virtue of their prescience and pre-emption of a genre.
No.12473 Anonymous 2026-09-16 04:31:20
>>12472 they were more like the Neil deGrasse Tysons of their day
No.12478 Anonymous 2026-09-16 06:32:39
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movie recc for you OP
No.12503 Anonymous 2026-09-16 10:42:09
>>12444 (OP)
You have to read it through the lens of its own time and not of the generation weaned on Wikipeda. You're like the guy that can't watch black and white films or play retro games because they're "outdated", lmao imagine being a plebeian
No.13242 Anonymous 2026-10-08 13:53:14
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2026: I am forgotten.