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

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

"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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That looks interesting.

The Centaur: Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood

155 pages

Group Total:117,773

Mbuye wrote: "Yes, it's a very spiritual sort of book, very unlike what I might expect from Arthur Machen Algernon Blackwood."
I'm glad this isn't representative of his stories. I thought The Willows was a lot better. I don't mind that it's spiritual, it just goes on and on with nothing really happening.

It is definitely dense. No dialogue, long paragraphs, etc.
But I did enjoy it.

I just started it. It's slow going so far.

What does everybody think so far?

It's really dense. There's some really cringey and racist stuff about the first men but a lot of the later sci-fi concepts are reallhy cool.

Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon


209 pages

Group Total: 114,636

Wow, this is fifty years old?
I read it a long time ago. Don't really remember anything about the plot.

This was written between Word War I and World War II. It's interesting to see what he got right and what he got wrong. I wish I knew more about history.

Lesle wrote: "Thank you Book Nerd for opening this one!

I like Blackwood as well."
No problem.

I'll get to this soon. I've been wanting to read more Blackwood.

I think this is the first book I read with the group a few years ago. It's a long read but worth it.