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

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

I finished. Thought it was a great interpretation of the myth.
Another series I have to finish...

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

494 pages

Total to date 657,259

Welcome Julie and Bruce!

I'm seeing a ton of inspiration for A Song of Ice and Fire in this.

Thanks, that's interesting.

I'm about a hundred pages in, reading about Merlin's youth. I'm enjoying it so far.

So I'm not really familiar with Arthurian legend except from various movies. I saw that Green Knight movie. Weird.
Does anybody know what's the earliest work it's all derived from?

Glad to hear it.

I've been looking forward to this one. I haven't read any Arthurian stuff before and somebody recommended this to me.

Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses a great natural gift - the Sight. Against a background of invasion and imprisonment, wars and conquest, Merlin emerges into manhood, and accepts his dramatic role in the New Beginning - the coming of King Arthur.

It's very unlikely to literally be the last person on earth but if you think you are I'd say depression and hopelessness is pretty much inevitable.

The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang


358 pages

Total to Date: 637,525

Yeah, I finished a while ago. I liked it pretty well but not as much as some Dostoyevsky.

Yeah that's pretty accurate. I thought the ending was the best part too.

MeowReads wrote: "Hi. I'm Jaye :D I'm very new to Goodreads (this is my first post on the website lol.) I'm not a native English speaker but I like to read English works.

I'm currently trying to read Frankenstein ..."

Hi Jaye. Where are you from?

I loved The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet and Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron

Pam wrote: "I haven’t read any Zane Grey but, just as an aside, we drove past the refurbished Zane Grey cabin (and Rim County Museum) in Payson, AZ the other day. My husband said he visited it as a kid but it ..."
That's really cool. I'd like to read a few more westerns but there's so much else I want to read.

Welcome Claudia.

The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang


350 pages

523,460

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky


714 pages

Total To Date: 518,761

John wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "I'm about halfway through. The chapter "With Our People" is the funniest thing I've seen from Dostoyevsky. Obviously he thought people who want to start revolutions like this are ..."
Their conversation is really absurd. These particular people are a bunch of posers.