It is not a great translation, to be sure (Barnes & Noble's Classics Series, if you're interested), but I had to laugh at this footnote: "The translator here omits a long paragraph listing authors and titles meant to establish Nemo's character as a Renaissance man and to display the scope of Nemo's reading and…

Also, this is always my favorite comment boards on the AV Club. Thank you guys so much for doing this feature every month!

I'm trying to read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (just finished Part I) but I may give up on it. Verne seems to spend more of his time trying to prove his scientific bonafides than actually telling an interesting story. I just don't have the appropriate knowledge of scientists from the 18th and 19th centuries.

If you end up loving Lolita, you should check out Pale Fire. It's one of my favorite books of all time, and I love that I can re-read it in different ways and respond to it differently.

Mine, too. And it's worse because I was guilty of dismissing her for so long. I didn't really start reading her until my final year of college when we read Persuasion and then I read all her books and felt bad about all the things I had said.

I keep trying to convince Mr. Brewman he needs to go back and actually finish Storm of Swords before the new season, but it doesn't seem like it's going to happen. It's going to be so hard to watch the third season with him. He has NO idea…

I checked Perdido Street Station out from the library and never managed to finish it. I got as far as the girlfriend doing the crazy sculpture of the weird criminal guy and the scientist starting to hoard winged creatures and then had to return it to the library. Is it worth actually plowing the rest of the way…

Well, the Pulitzer committee didn't seem to care for it. Ha ha.

I thought Wizard and Glass was the best book of that series. But yeah, after that it goes downhill. I was actually angry with King after I finally plowed through the doorstop that is the seventh book.

I really liked the Magicians and recommended it to several people, but for some reason I cannot get around to reading the Magician King. I don't know if I'm just burned out on fantasy right now or if there's some kind of dissatisfaction I had with the first book that I didn't realize that's blocking me.

Which one's a right-wing diatribe, so I know to steer clear?

Just picked up The Terror and am looking forward to reading it, but might just start Drood instead. Simmons had me at Wilkie Collins.

One of my favorite books. I enjoy it more with each re-read.

God, that was a terrible musical. I remember seeing it when I was pretty young and coming to the realization that musical theater, which was my favorite thing as a child, wasn't always good. Learning experience!

I got REALLY excited when I saw the Pushing Daisies notification, but it was all for naught. Sob.

They've GOT to mix up the teams soon. It's really not that fair already that each team had to produce 6 dresses and one team had 6 people and one had 8. Having two extra designers to work on dresses is a big advantage and allows one team to pursue much more ambitious designs.

Nobody's mentioned Werewolf Bar Mitzvah yet?

I came to this comments section to say that very thing!

If you can get ahold of copies of Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, I'd highly recommend them to you. They're the same nameless narrator and despite Murakami himself hating them, I really liked them a lot.

I'm reading Among Others right now and so far I think it's absolutely fantastic. In fact, I would much rather be reading it than having to work (although I say that on internet comment boards, so my work ethic is clearly not kicking in yet). I just got Pullman's Grimm Fairy Tales book that I'm excited to start next,…