Book Nerd’s Comments (group member since Dec 20, 2018)

Book Nerd’s comments from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.

Caroline wrote: "I found the first part heartwarming and a very enjoyable read."
Are you finished? Heartwarming isn't exactly what I'd call it, more just asserting her independence.

I just started.

Thanks

Welcome Bee and Catherine.

This is weird and fun. Gives me Addams Family vibes and Gormenghast vibes.

This is often called the greatest novel ever written and I agree. I read the Constance Garnett translation.
I'd love to read it again but there's always the old struggle, read something you loved vs read something new.

Michelle wrote: "I really enjoyed the book, gave it 5 stars. It was great read to end my reading year."

Have you read The Mouse and His Child? That's a great book and kind of similar.

Looks like this one will be popular. I'll probably start in a week or so.

Yes, Space Cadet is the second book in the Heinlein's Juveniles series.

I finished it last night. It was a good little adventure book with plenty of twists and turns. As with most books of that time they didn't spend a lot of time working on things, just threw together a rocket and went. But the books were written for young boys so Heinlein did throw in some details about science and engineering.

Oh yeah, I forgot she wrote The Lottery. That makes me even more eager to start.

Michelle wrote: "Just started Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. Hoping to get it read before the new year to complete my reading goals for 2024."
Oh yeah, I love that book and movie!

Three high school students formed the Galileo Club to share their interests in science and space exploration. But they never imagined they would team up with a nuclear physicist to construct and crew a rocket bound for the moon.

And they never expected to gain some powerful enemies in the process.

Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," The Iron Heel chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. London presents a fictional "Everhard Manuscript", hidden and found centuries in the future. This book is a platform for him to espouse his socialist views and predict the collapse of capitalism. Very different from his other action novels, it envisions a future oligarchic tyranny in America and the rise of the Socialist party. The book has been credited with influencing George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

She was Laura's aunt.

Welcome Jim. I want to get into Dickens soon too.

Welcome Moss and Jimena.

Pam wrote: "I found The Iron Heel on SimplyE (free app). It has a lot of SF, including short stories that are hard to find outside of a collection."
Good find.

Emmy was a really minor character. I had to look back to find her.

It would probably be agood book to read in the rain.