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

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

November's story is The Dead by James Joyce found in the collection Dubliners.
A depiction of middle class life in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century, the story centres on Gabriel Conroy, a teacher and part-time book reviewer, and explores the relationships he has with his family and friends.
(The Dead: James Joyce's Famous Story Annotated)

PDF:
https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/greatwo...

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tMt...

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?


I am legend --
Buried talents --
The near departed --
Prey --
Witch war --
Dance of the dead --
Dress of white silk --
Mad house --
The funeral --
From shadowed places --
Person to person.

I'm only about eighty pages in so far.
It's pretty funny how Varvara Petrovna mothers Stepan. Now she's just arranged a marriage for him.

Gilbert wrote: "Finished. Very happy with his writing from a psychological viewpoint.
This has been a very good year for Dostoyevsky and me. I've now read, besides Demons, Crime and Punishment}, and The Brothers Karamazov. On to The Idiot."</i>
You should read [book:Notes from the Underground. I also liked House of the Dead.

The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang


371 pages

Total to date 484,639

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

272 pages

Total to Date: 483,509

I finished. I enjoyed the story overall. I really want to look for some pictures or video that show this purple landsape.
One thing that drove me nuts, thankfully there wasn't much of it, was how Fay talked. "Do oo love my new muvver?" Seriously? There are better ways to show it's a little girl talking!

I think it's the dialogue that sounds pretty clunky.

I just started but yeah, the writing is really clunky. Mine doesn't have illustrations.

Anybody thinking of reading Lurker? It's a more understandable story.

I've never seen he movie but I've heard it's good.

Oh well, enjoy the other reads.

This is a good negative review if you've finished the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnKO...

I actually like that a lot of things don't have clear answers.

Things will pick up soon.

This will be my western for the year. :)

Gilbert wrote: "I suppose no one else is reading the two fourth quarter husky and hefty reads.
Pity, they're pretty good."
I am planning to read Demons eventually. I'm a big Dostoyevsky fan.

Yeah there's always a pile but it's not very long.

Yeah, it definitely doesn't seem to be centuries in the future.

I've been going through it. It's ...interesting.

That's really interesting. I didn't think that they might be actual reincarnation.

The Lurker at the Threshold by August Derleth

Ambrose Dewart was the last lineal descendant of the Billington family. So it was natural that he should come to the legend-shrouded town of Arkham, Massachusetts, to take up residence in the old family mansion in Billington's Wood—even though the house had stood empty and shunned for over a hundred years.

Dewart found a rich legacy of disturbing features awaiting him: an ancient tower surrounded by a ring of stones in the forest, a strangely disquieting window of coloured glass which offered glimpses into some weird dimension of horror, a library of dark and secret lore—and family legends involving mysterious rites, ghastly deaths and disappearances, and the conjuration of vile, age-old Powers from beyond space and time.

Most frightening of all, Dewart found his arrival had brought these horrors to life again.

And the Lurker was once more preparing to cross the Threshold...

Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim...

Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula, is one of the most enduring and masterful influences on the literature of terror.