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

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

The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

250 pages

Group Total: 214,033

Oh man, Louisa is something! 😂

This goes back and forth a little too much but the ending was awesome.

Yeah, that's cool but not surprising. I have a ton of sci-fi and fantasy maps.

The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s prized astrogation manuals—book on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation.

Warnings never really work on me but part one is much better.

(view spoiler)[Christian is a Christ figure so he was able to beat her.
Though White Fell is clearly the villain here I guess the author is warning that religion will be used to keep women in their place. (hide spoiler)]

I'm on to part 2. The cattle drive has begun. It's really crazy that Call just got this idea into his head and dragged all these other guys along and they're not even sure why.

Lesle wrote: "I like the concept of the timeframe and how they might live through it"
It would have to be a powerful star since the orbit of the planet would be almost as far out as Uranus. And the four hundred day lunar cycle, I don't know how that could work.

Rosemarie wrote: "I've found the author's books to be hit or miss for me. My favourites are the Earth-Sea books."
Earthsea is great. I'm hoping to get The Lathe of Heaven on the list next year.

Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin

92 pages

Group Total: 206,236

Yeah, things get a little melodramatic.

I read it last night. It was okay but didn't really impress me like some of the others.

Valona wrote: "I am reading and almost done with “The count of Monte Cristo” classic. It’s definitely worth reading and the length of the book is kinda intimidating but well worth spending my days reading it."
Definitely one of those classics that intimidates with it's length but totally worth reading.

Piyangie wrote: "I started Faust: A Tragedy about a week ago. I didn’t realise it was a play until I started reading."
Are you reading both parts? I'd like to know how you think they compare. Personally I thought the second part ruined it.

What a classic is will always be debated. The older I get the more fifty years doesn't seem that long ago.
Professors and literati are always making up lists and I think they're doing pretty well now that they include world literature and things like pulp stories and comics.

There's a pretty simple answer Columbine. (view spoiler)[Don't marry the douchebag!

Even her father tried to let her out of it. (hide spoiler)]

Lesle wrote: "Book Nerd has started to read this FWC and I have decided to put it back into the active topic.

I so love this read and Larry McMurtry writing."
Thanks. I'm reading slowly but really enjoying it.

Welcome new Members.

Yeah, I haven't read many westerns yet but I've always resisted Lonesome Dove because it's long and it's the one people never shut up about lol. But I gave in and I'm reading it. I do like the writing. Nothing much has happened yet, it's just slice of life in the old west and everybody's backstory.

The Wizard of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs

160 pages

Group Total: 199,771

I've never seen three of the same letter in a row in any word in any language.