Beatrix's comments (member since Oct 08, 2008)

Beatrix's comments from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die group.

I haven't read RC yet, but the Mysterious Island is a great piece of work! However, I think you shouldn't read that book if you haven't read "20,000 leagues under the sea" and "Captain Grant's Children" before, because in MI you will find out the real end of them, and there may be stuffs you don't understand completely =)

You know, I had exactly the same feeling when I first watch S&S; for a moment, I couldn't help to think what a mediocre that goal was... but then I remembered of what century we're talking about, and I started to appreciate the stories from another point of view. I even started to think if I wasn't too feminist, hehe.

About what you say of the trouble-characters, I do like them too (I loved Harry Potter's Fred&George), and I do not like all the well-behaved characters (I got sick of Fanny Price and Edmund...they're so square and boring!). I think I am not attached to a particular behavior, but with the whole character... and some cases that character is not precisely the goody-good =)

Which Ramona books are you referring to? I haven't read them, please tell me who's the author, so I can search for them =D Thanks for the recomendation!

LOL!! Maybe you and I should have this conversation away of this discussion =P we are in danger of letting slip some detailes of the story, hehe.

I don't think Emma was naive, yet I do think she was inmature. And the fact that she wasn't worried about getting married seem to be due to the fact that there were no men around who deserve her (in her mind), because when "certain young man" arrived at her town she almost consider the posibility of changing her mind, because that union would have provoked the envy of every girl nearby... I was so happy when I discovered who that man was in love with =D

As for Elizabeth... Tell me if I'm wrong: you feel the story of P&P is a little "macho one", where everything women could aspire for was getting married with a rich man. Emma looks so independent and modern, seing as she doesn't care what people say if she doesn't get married, and that fits more to your way of thinking... is that so?

Lynn wrote: "I thought Elizabeth Bennet and Elinor were boring compared to Emma... she's so much more... textured? dynamic? real? at least in my opinion. Duygu, you've seen Clueless, yes? Maybe that unfairly en..."

Lynn, maybe Elinor could seem a boring character, but certainly not Elizabeth; don't you think she's vivacious and espontaneous as well as good-mannered? Emma is, as Duygu fairly said, shallow and full of herself... I really hate the ending of this novel, and I won't say more to prevent me to spoil it for those who haven't finished it...it would be difficult to wait LOL!

Duygu wrote: "Well as for the first few Chapters I am viewing her as being much too shallow and I do hope she surprises me later on."

Duygu, I hated Emma LOL! Yeah, she may surprised you, but she's not Elizabeth Bennet or Elinor Dashwood, so, thoug she thinks she's perfect, in fact she's full of faults. Anyway, the story is really great and I think you will enjoyed it a lot =)

Pardon my ignorance, but does this book has any resemblance with The Misterious Island, by Julius Verne?? I have only read the latter, and I was fascinated by it, and I'm afraid if I read Robinson Crusoe it will seem to me a copy of Verne's. What do you think?

Lord of the flies (William Golding), and I loved it!!! I also finished The Stranger by Camus... I'm sorry for the existencialist fans, but I didn't like it much :-\

San Jose where?? I'm from Mexico!!