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(group member since Dec 20, 2018)
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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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I started Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table. It's challenging. Big blocks of text that just state that something happened without any real description so you might blink and miss an important event. And dialogue in the big blocks with no separations and note quotaion marks.
But of course I'm familiar with the basic story.
This is a really good collection of stories so far.The Veldt - It's funny how the fear used to be that technology would take care of us to well. Instead it just wastes too much of our time.
Kaleidoscope - I actually read this one in school a long time ago. I'm glad they let ten or twelve year olds read this when I was in school. Really makes you think and I still remember it all.
The Other Foot - All it takes to end racism is to blow up the planet.
He did say that he saved her so thought of her life as his. Makes you hate him from the beginning and know it will end in disaster.It would be interesting for a change to see the reality behind the illusions and find that it's all warm and fuzzy.
Piyangie wrote: "There will be no Christmas for us this year. My country has faced the deadliest cyclone in its recent history. Lanslides have severely damaged our infrastructure. Few of the villages are buried und..."Oh wow. So sorry to hear that.
Rosemarie wrote: "We have a pickle ornament. We never had a pickle on our Christmas tree, and I was born in Germany. The pickle ornament must have originated in a different part of Germany."
I've heard a few Germans say that. Apparently it's really an American invention.
Michelle wrote: "We do Jolabokaflod
If possible, I like getting in a few themed reads for the season."
I looked up Jolabokaflod. Now that's a great Christmas tradition!
The Nutcracker was pretty entertaining. The others look like great reads too.
Goodreads is really going downhill fast.
Yeah, a female pov could have helped.
I'm halfway through this. It's definitely really sixties sexist. Podkayne spends much of her time caring for babies and hiding her intelligence.
Rosemarie wrote: "That's one of my favourite Dickens novels."It's the only one I've read besides the Christmas stuff.
Podkayne Fries, a clever Martian maid with dreams of becoming the first female starship pilot, is delighted to join her diplomatic uncle on an interstellar journey. But her uncle's power makes her a political target.
This was a really good book. Clearly an inspiration to Lovecraft.
Welcome to all the new members.
In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children.
A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird tale has since established itself as a classic of its genre and has been described by Stephen King as "one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language."
Been a while since I updated this.Aniara by Harry Martinson
130 pages
Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
255 pages
Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
212 pages
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
990 pages
1,587 pages total
Group Total: 439,959
I'd live there.
I've never read Agatha Christie. I'lltry a couple.
Michelle wrote: "I last read that story about 10 years ago, and have been wanting to re-read it. Recently found this edition on clearance: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Arcturus Classics) by Washington Irving...which contains 14 other stories by Irving as well. I think I've only previously read 1 of the other stories."
Yeah, I have a book of stories too. I didn't realize The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was so short. So I'll read the whole book of stories. Rip Van Winkle is also in there. I don't know how many of the others are also kind of scary.
