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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
sadly as this sounds, I never actually read Verne. sure, we all know it from movies, comic books and so on.
so I tried to read a book by him, and went for the unorthodox, away from the spotlights. I reached about chapter 3 or 4 of An Antarctic Mistery and find out I absolutely need to go through Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym before properly reading this book. go figure...
at least I'm almost done with Poe's only published romance. which BTW, is well worth a read...
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I loved Poe's novel. It was amazing. I then went and read Verne's sequel and was disappointed in it simply because Poe's novel was so good.