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

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

Welcome, Audrey.

I enjoyed it but not as much as Red Planet.

This will be my first time but the juveniles keep getting better.

The miniseries was finw but it didn't resemble the book much.

I just learned that there was a tv miniseries of this story. It's only 80 minutes. I'm going to watch it now.
It's on youtube. "Red Planet [1994] | TV Miniseries"

Bill knew his destiny lay in the stars, but how was he to get there?
George Lerner was shipping out for Ganymede to join the fledgling colony, and Bill wanted to go along. But his father would not hear of it -- far too dangerous a mission!
Bill finally talked his way aboard the colony ship Mayflower -- and discovered his father was right!

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

76 pages

Group Total:98,071

Glad you liked it.

Welcome Sunny and Jakob.

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

138 pages

Group Total: 92,882

Okay, sounds like there's some other stuff for me to read.

Jen wrote: "Ali Smith is an author I've been wanting to read. Did you like the intro? Any worthwhile thoughts from it?"
I usually just kind of gloss over the intro. I'll take a better look at it.

Welcome Silvia.

Jen wrote: "Also, I'd been wondering where it takes place and now I saw a book description that says it's in Mexico, so I guess when Carrington uses the term Indian, she means the indigenous
people of that region and not something/someone of India?"
At first I thought europe somewhere but yeah, I'm pretty sure it takes place in Mexico. And I'd assume the "indian" was from Mexico

Jen wrote: "I'm also looking forward to Olga Tokarczuk's thoughts in the afterword. I personally loved her Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, though GR reviews indicate it's polarizing."
I've heard that's a good book. I'd like to read it sometime soon.
My copy only has an introduction by an Ali Smith.

Well I enjoyed that. Now I wish I could read more of Leonora Carrington but a lot of her books seem difficult to get. So I've been looking at her art.
This is the second book in a row I've read with some really sketchy nuns lol.

There were a lot of great lines. I only underlined a few.

I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well meaning people.

I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever.

Afterall no human beings are ever as nice as animals. For real understanding one can only depend on dogs.

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

367 pages

Group total: 88,923

I enjoyed this. It reminded me a lot of Faust(part one), which I see was published twelve years later.

(view spoiler)[I was going to say this book was really antiwoman, and it is to a point, but it turns out Matilda is a demon, not a woman obsessed with corrupting Ambrosio.


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Welcome Milja and Ben.

I finished the story of the bloody nun. That was a long diversion but a pretty good story on it's own.

Glad you liked it.

If anybody wants to really get into King, Father Callahan shows up again in the fifth Dark Tower book Wolves of the Calla.

I thought it had a great female character.(view spoiler)[Willis (hide spoiler)]

Yeah, there were always stereotypes and like I said this is an old series for boys.
But I thought there were some good female characters in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, and even The Puppet Masters.