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

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

Welcome Dave!

(view spoiler)[That's what I meant, so he could be TALLER.
That just made him seem ridiculous, not scary. (hide spoiler)]

Blueberry wrote: "Scariest book I ever read."
What did you think about (view spoiler)[Belasco having his legs cut off so he could be shorter. That just made me laugh.
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I read Don Quixote in 2013. Don't have time to get back to it now but I enjoyed it.

Pam wrote: "Montse- I think a lot of Americans aren’t that familiar with Don Quixote. The battle with the windmills is probably the scene most people are familiar with. I have a friend/neighbor who is a direct..."
I think a lot of Americans assume it's something for kids because we're really only familiar with it from cartoons.

Welcome Luffy and Ines.

I'll have to see when I read the other books.

I finally read Out of the Silent Planet and I enjoyed it. At first it was a pretty typical exploring a new planet and meeting the natives thing then it went into some vaguely christian stuff as it usually does with Lewis.

The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

160 pages

Hell House by Richard Matheson

300 pages

Total to Date: 139,152

It was a really great quick read and a scary story but I thought the whole thing of what's really going on at the end was pretty overdone. Spooky haunted house. The details were anticlimactic.

2025 ideas:
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Keep the Stephen King going with ’Salem’s Lot.

I'm reading it now. It's a really good haunted house story. I definitely need to read more Matheson.

This seems to get compared to Avatar a lot but I think it was a direct inspiration for the Ewoks. They even have a village called Endtor.

The whole thing of traveling light years for wood was pretty ridiculous but sometimes you just have to go with it.

(view spoiler)[Other than Davidson, who was a mustache twirling bad guy, I thought the humans in this were pretty reasonable. They just accepted peaceful terms and left. (hide spoiler)]

"dwarfs"? Not in length. They probably mean that it encompasses a lot of alien species instead of just humans.

I thought I'd read this in one night but I was really tired so I only read four chapters but it's really good so far.

Yeah, I don't know if I'd reread it but if you liked it you need to read Star Maker too.

On the planet Atshe, the cycle of life, culture, customs, mental processes are born and develop in the autonomous stability of the cosmos, but the arrival of a terrestrial expedition will dramatically change the peaceful way of life of the natives of the planet .

Welcome Parsa and Ethan.

The other day on a whim I picked up the first four books of The Box-Car Children. I think I only read the first one when I was a kid. I had no idea there were 160, The latest one published in 2022!
(Hm, the author died in 1979 so obviously somebody else is writing all these books.)

Welcome Corrine.

Here are some cool images.

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