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I recently finished Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, which I had read as a child but was unaware (until recently) that my family had an abridged version. It was interesting reading the unabridged, but man... I think that book is better abridged. Verne goes on for pages and pages just listing species of fish that his characters encounter. I would guess that fully 1/4 of the book is just "we saw (insert long list of fish here)". Still a classic, I still enjoyed it well enough, but I doubt I ever read this edition again.
After that I read the first proper Witcher novel, Blood of Elves. I was concerned that I wouldn't enjoy it as much as the short story collections which preceded it, but I did really enjoy it. Still remains to be seen how well Sapkowski develops a story that stretches over several books, but this was good enough that I'm looking forward to reading more.
Next up is The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, which I said I was going to read a while back but got sidetracked by other things. This time for real though, as I don't have other books to distract me from it any more.
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