Laurel’s Comments (group member since Aug 06, 2013)

Laurel’s comments from the I Read Therefore I Am group.

That's the one, I nearly didn't bother finishing it but it does get better once we are back in Obaba.

Yes me too - have got Wolf Hall on the kindle after succumbing once again to some kind of Christmas ebook sale and am planning to read it 'sometime'.

Getting to the last third of Obabakoak and also (re)reading Gardens of the Moon which is all kinds of awesomeness :)

Right, got through the boring middle bit and am onto part 3. It does get better (am liking the lizard) although the one about the woman looking for her husband in the jungle is dragging a bit - I think he should just keep it short and sweet cos that's when he seems to be at his best!

Hee hee! Funny...

Joking aside, it is a good poem ;)

Cool!

Ok so as well as it not being safe to go in the water, it's now not safe to go to the park???

Lol I like that! Although I would suggest maybe not trying that one on the boss as an excuse for daydreaming - doubt it will go down well ;)
Loved the Hendrix pic's as well Lee - only Jimi could manage to wear those mad getup's and still look hot!

14. China Mieville - Iron Council
15. Neil Gaiman - Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

Wow literature map is crazy, I love it! Thanks Angela.

I've just finished Iron Council by China Mieville and The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman which were both great. I really need to finish Obabakoak now but the middle bit has kind of lost me.

Thanks, I was curious as it's not one I've come across before. It's a shame it's gone out of style, I like old fashioned letters ;)

How do you pronounce the ß in daß??? (hopefully I have got the right symbol there)

I bought those too as well Hilary! The film was recommended to me yesterday (The Railway Man) by a friend so I thought I'd check the book out. And 12 Years a Slave looks fascinating too - hope you enjoy them!

Yeah I didn't think it had aged as well either as I remembered Wells being quite ahead of his time but this one wasn't so much.

I loved this when I was a kid! Had an illustrated version that I re-read over and over again :)

The drinking ban didn't last very long did it?

I thought it was very disturbing, but didn't think that what Moreau was doing was very realistic in the light of modern knowledge so it was just a creepy story as far as I was concerned (I switched off my modern sensibilities and just left it in it's own time otherwise I would have had issues with the human-centric views of even the good characters). I might take it down a star actually, I didn't enjoy it as much as War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.

Ok sounds like a good idea, although we will miss the egg-related jokes ;)

It was good and I liked the way the kids all got really into Dicken's story even though it was a totally different world from everything they knew. But I found the islander's story more compelling than Mr Watt's as well.

Where does the Tate get it's funding from? Cos if it's from my taxes I'm going to be really cross...