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

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

It always bugs me in books where somebody is stuck in a room for days and there's no mention of going to the bathroom.

I haven't read Matilda or the Witches yet but I've seen both movies.

This is fun to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj_IU...

And wouldn't you know it. The censors are coming for Roald Dahi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_D...

Half way through it's pretty good. I saw a tv movie a long time ago.

The neighbors all whisper about the two sisters who live on the hill: It's Blanche Hudson who lives in that house, you know. The Blanche Hudson, who starred in big Hollywood films all those years ago. Such a shame her career ended so early, all because of that accident. They say it was her sister, Jane, who did it--that she crashed the car because she was drunk. They say that's why she looks after Blanche now, because of the guilt. That's what they say, at least.

Nobody remembers that Jane was once a star herself. A fixture of early vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed her song and dance routines for adoring crowds until a move to Hollywood thrust her sister into the spotlight. Even now, years later, Jane dreams of reviving her act. But as the lines begin to blur between fantasy and reality, past resentments become dangerous--and the sisters' long-kept secrets threaten to destroy them.

Wijdan wrote: "I am late to the discussion but Roald Dahl's children books are fantastic!
I remember picking up a copy of his book Someone Like You because I was intrigued by the cover
[bookcover:Someone Like You..."
There's still half a year to read. So far I've only started reading children's books but they're fun.

Welcome Briana and Kit.

Great reviews.

Enjoy, Erich!

I didn't realize it was before Sputnik. I'm always surprised that early sci-fi can be so prophetic.

This was a really good early post-apocalypse story. Though they're plants it reminds me of a lot of zombie apocalypse stuff. And as usual the real villains are the power hungry humans.

Welcome Kim!

It's funny how humans always think they're in danger of underbreeding.

So far the triffids aren't a big factor, they're mostly dealing with almost everybody in the world being blind.

I've been wanting to read this one for a while. I just started but it's good so far.

Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.

But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.

Yeah, it was kind of Animal Farm.

Yeah with the first story, "Everybody has their own plane!", I thought it would be pretty dated but it was really unique.

Yeah, he was really writing serious sci-fi and with some really unique ideas.

Welcome, Six.