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PG
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Classic Literature. Science Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. HTML: Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat is the fourth book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading." "These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good." This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade"..
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LibraryThing member TadAD
The Tom Swift stories were favorites of my dad when he was a kid and everything from Project Gutenberg is free, so I popped one onto my Kindle. I actually had a ball reading it, though perhaps not in the way that the author intended. It was all just so, "Gosh, Dad, let's go down into the basement
It managed to cross that line separating really bad from amusing. Since it only took an hour to read, I can actually envision picking up another one someday just for fun. ;-)
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and put together a submarine in a couple of weeks." It was fun to watch all the hand-waving at how things worked. Need a submarine that can descend to three miles underwater? No problem, just use a triple steel hull with "layers of secret material between them that can withstand enormous pressure." Want to figure out how to navigate underwater in those days when sonar was cumbersome? Just put in glass windows that are "really strong" (able to withstand over 7050 pounds per square inch, if I remember my calculations from scuba class correctly). It managed to cross that line separating really bad from amusing. Since it only took an hour to read, I can actually envision picking up another one someday just for fun. ;-)
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LibraryThing member AliceAnna
Not nearly as polished or nearly as good characters as The Pony Rider book I read recently. Interesting from the aspect of early sci-fi/juvenile/young adult works, but not very satisfying.
Original publication date
1910
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Tom Swift, 04
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