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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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I started this but didn't get far.If you want female characters seems like there will be some good ones here. I really like the grandmother.
One of her lines made me think of this and laugh:
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She clears at ten. She sets out lunch at one.
Montague's wife was obnoxious(and I'm pretty sure having an affair with Arthur) but when she showed up and said "Why aren't you actually doing anything?" I completely agreed.Also, some interactions between her and Mrs. Dudley would have been amusing.
It was hard to make myself finish this. It was mostly boring and not scary at all to me.
It doesn’t seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. Even so, it’s clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. Of course, anyone who’s met their grandmother Hazel would know that they came by it honestly…Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the Solar System in the company of the most high-spirited and hilarious family in all of science fiction. This light-hearted tale has some of Heinlein’s sassiest dialogue (not to mention the famous Flat Cats incident!). Oddly enough, it’s also a true example of real family values–for when you’re a Stone, your family is your highest priority.
Yeah, I understand. I'm halfway through and not much has happened. They're mostly just eating and hanging out and walking around the house.
My copy is only 180 pages. Hopefully you can fit it in soon.The Premise reminds me a lot of Hell House by Matheson.
There's a lot of odd snappy dialogue. Maybe it's supposed to be the characters trying to overcome the opressive atmosphere of the house but it seems really out of place like a sitcom trying to cram in too many jokes.
I finally started this. I'm only a couple chapters in, reading about Eleanor.
I finished. It is confusing that these three books are in one volume just called The Moon Maid. I'm glad I read them all though The Moon Maid itself was my favorite.The Red Hawk gets pretty much into ERB's weird, old timey ideas about race, much like in the Mars series.
I also thought it was weird that the va-gas were just quadraped humans. He couldn't conceive of sentient life that wasn't in some way human.
I also like that most of his books are in an early shared universe. I was hoping to read all the Venus books in May but reading it alongside this was too confusing so hopefully I'll still have time, if not I'll finish eventually. Then there are the Pellucidar books and I've never even read any Tarzan.
So many books, never enough time.
Yeah, Orthis causes even more trouble in The Moon Men. I just finished it.It's cool how these stories are connected by one guy remembering his future lives.
Piyangie wrote: "I finally completed reading the five greatest tragedies. Here's the order of my preference:1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Hamlet
3. Othello
4. Macbeth
5. King Lear"
Good job. I haven't read any in a while. I think Hamlet was my favorite.
I've had a lot of crap going on and I've been reading a lot slower than I'd like but I'm enjoying this so far.Did you read the one with the whole trilogy?
I've finished The Moon Maid and I'm halfway through The Moon Men.
I love Stephen King too Jakob. A couple of his books are fifty years old now.I just found his first published story:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OudAPlxI0Q
Welcome Meilyn and Maggie.
In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery inside the moon; he will live again in the dark years of the twenty-second century as Julian 9th, who refuses to bow down to the victorious Moon Men; and as Julian 20th, the fierce Red Hawk, he will lead humanity's final battle against the alien invaders in the twenty-fifth century. The Moon Maid is Edgar Rice Burroughs's stunning epic of a world conquered by alien invaders from the moon and of the hero Julian, who champions the earth's struggle for freedom, peace, and dignity.
It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
