20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

It was after I watched the film, Journey to the Center of the Earth, that I bought this book from Powerbooks. I was actually looking for the book version of the movie. The sales lady said that they were out of stock. So I browsed through the other works of Jules Verne and  this one was the book that got my attention. 

The story is all about the journey of Captain Nemo into the unexplored parts of the ocean all over the world. It all started when his ship, the Nautilus, was thought to be a humongous sea creature that has been causing other ships to sink. The government has tasked experts to take on a major project of bringing down this so-called sea monster. Ned Land, a famous harpooner of whales was called to attention, as well as Monsieur Pierre Arronax, a professor and scientist and his faithful assistant, Conseil. The day they found the Nautilus was the day that changed their lives forever.

The World's Greatest Alien Encounters

I was in Grade Four at St. Scholastica’s Marikina when I began my interest in alien conspiracies, abductions, pyramids and all those weird stuff. So when I saw a three-part book about these things, I immediately bought them, one of which is a book about alien encounters.

 

It’s basically about people all over the world who have seen unidentified flying objects in the sky, people who claimed to have encountered alien life forms and beliefs that have been formed because of these things since the beginning of the flying saucer age in 1947. We somehow have a vague knowledge of such things in one way or another. But what struck me the most while reading this book was that amidst all the sightings and encounters is ONE SOLID MESSAGE from our alien brothers --- that if we continue the way we’re taking care of our planet, we’ll all soon perish. Freaky, isn’t it?