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

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

Only six.

The dwarves aren't that distinct in the book either.
They look pretty Christmasy but on the cover of my copy they look like warrior dwarves from d&d or something.


My biggest problem was the elves. They were indistinguishable from humans except in a couple of pictures were you could see their ears.

I finished. I didn't love it overall. Some of the stories were fun, some were just exasperating. The more risqué ones were the most fun. But the lack of an overall story made them mostly pretty forgettable.

Piyangie wrote: "The Hundredth story reminded me of an exact similar story from the Grimm's Fairy Tales. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the fairy tale"
(view spoiler)[There were several where a king wants to test his wife. In Faithful John he led her to believe her children were dead and she accepted it. (hide spoiler)]

I'm on day ten novel eight. Should finish tomorrow.

Armin wrote: "And I had a hard time with the first translation, I think it was from Penguin books. Lot of fancy, archaic words that are a bit hard to read for me, as a non-native English speaker. So I switched to Wayne Rebhorn’s edition, which is very fluid."
Yeah, I'm sure it is. Sometimes the same word is spelled two different ways in the same paragraph.

I'm almost finished with it. There's a lot of text.
I think I notice some differences from the book but it's quite a while since I read it.

What does it mean to be somebody's "Gossip"? They talk about it like it's some kind of formal title.

Mike wrote: "Dune is my favourite book and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie but have been trying not to get my hopes up. The trailer did get me pretty excited though, the characters largely looked how I imagined them and the music was from my favourite album, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". Now I'm hearing good reviews and that the second part has been confirmed. Must not get hopes up!"

Dark Side of the Moon isn't in the soundtrack. This is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTmBe...
But you should definitely see it. I know about not getting your hopes up these days but Dune met mine. There are a few things I wish they'd include in a director's cut but overall it was great.

Lesle wrote: "The new Dune has Stellan Skarsgård in it, I think. He and his boys are really good actors!

I am glad you really like it. Sometimes it is hard for them to top the first movie!"
Stellan Skarsgård is the baron and he's excellent.

Dune's been adapted three times.
The first was 1984 by David Lynch. It wasn't very accurate to the book. The second was a miniseries in Sci-fi channel. It was pretty good but cheaply done and had some odd changes.
This version by Denis Villeneuve is book accurate and high budget. It's only the first part of the book but it seems like the second part is definitely happening. I'd love to see the whole series done well.

Dune was awesome! I really really want it to catch on as the new Lord of the Rings and get the whole series.

Jazzy wrote: "I'm studying Korean and the symbols above "유 웃" can be translated as "Breast Laugh""
Lol I'm only a little familiar with hangul. I always assumed those were just used here because they kind of look like people.

Lesle wrote: "Congratulations Book Nerd!

That would be ME!
That is why your sending your address to me as I hold the gift :)"
It says you're not accepting messages right now.

I meant who provides these prizes? Amazon?

Thanks! :)
So where did this come from anyway?

Piyangie wrote: "I just finished the ten stories of day 2 and find them enjoyable. It's a big improvement from the day 1 stories."
Yeah I agree.

Georgina wrote: "I’m hoping to join for this one, but I may start next month. I need a few more hours in the day!"
Just being free of work would be good for me.

Piyangie wrote: "I started this and read the first four stories of day one. They are okay but not impressive. I was hoping to enjoy them more after that very promising introduction. It is early stages in any case. I might enjoy them more when I get into its style. From what I have read, I can say Bocaccio hasn't viewed the church and its members in a respectable light."
He's pretty irreverent about everything. Which I enjoy.

The third day first novell:
(view spoiler)[He had sex with a whole convent full of nuns. And it all worked out great for him lol. (hide spoiler)]

I'm not really loving this. Some of the stories are kind of amusing but it's hard to get into.
And the lack of quotation marks when people are speaking is really annoying.

I started a whie ago. I'm into the second day now.

Old books can be so weird by todays standards. (view spoiler)[Let's poison the dog! That'll be a riot! (hide spoiler)]

One thing I thought was weird was that he said the god worshipped in early voodoo was called "Zombi". We're all familiar with zombies as reanimated corpses.
I looked it up and got this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damballa
Don't know if that's right. I don't know how you get Zombi out of Damballa.

Sounds good. My number is eight.

I've only read eight of those.