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I don't really have much to add to the above. I read it, but don't feel I could recommend it to anyone else as a "must read". At one stage I thought that if Conseil was referred to once more as a gallant lad or a fine lad I might start chewing the furniture. And all those lists of categorisations of fish. I suppose it was 19th century geekiness and as issybird says, would have appealed to 11 year old boys some time back.
Nemo was interesting until he committed mass murder. After that I really didn't care what had happened to him to make him so brooding and mysterious. Nothing could justify such an action.
And finally: what a copout at the end! There they are in a situation which had to mean certain death, so the narrator gets knocked unconscious and comes to safe and sound on land. Do you mean to tell me he didn't ask Conseil and Ned Land how they got out of the Maelstrom?
I won't be reading The Mysterious Island to find out what it was all about!
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