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Everyone has heard of these books. I was in third grade when I picked up "Journey to the Center of the Earth", before I even knew what a classic it was or who Jules Verne was, and OMG, that book blew my fucking mind! I'd never read anything like it before. When my teacher saw that I wasn't gonna finish it, he gifted it to me.

"Mysterious Island" was huge and like 700 fucking pages long and I read it.

"Around the World in 80 Days", oh my fucking God! Talk about a book that keeps you on the fucking edge of your sheet.

The only one I've read I couldn't get into was 20,000 Leagues, but I admire and respect it as a classic.

He fucking wrote a book about space travel in a time when people weren't even thinking about such a concept.

He was so ahead of his time! He wrote of technology and concepts that didn't exist yet, fuck! Absolutely amazing man! There are other classic novels and authors, but nothing compares to Verne. Maybe Polish author Alfred Szklarski.

Michael Palin did his own around the world in 80 days. I don't know of anyone trying to copy someone else's novels.

No disrespect to other iconic authors, but the guy's a fucking legend and icon! A fucking pioneer! No one will ever write books like that again.

especially a school teacher

Of course, I reached that age threshold years ago. It feels weird knowing some of my peers already have kids in middle school or are high school teachers.

Of course, my adolescent years sucked, but sometimes I miss the days when I didn't have to be an adult. I miss the days when I had those "rose colored glasses" where I didn't see many of these adults' true colors and how shitty they or the world really is. I miss the days when I had more of a support system and was given the benefit of the doubt when I was naive or made a mistake.

I never had a girlfriend in middle school or high school anyways. I didn't meet the love of my life and my first real girlfriend until I was 29. This is one of the few positive events in my life that brought positivity to my adulthood. We are about to get married, and it will be our very first (and hopefully ONLY) marriage. Better late than never!