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

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

Lirazel is an obvious forerunner to Arwen.
Orion is pretty boring with his obsession with hunting.

I'm enjoying this. Not a lot of action but a lyrical fairytalelike story.

Rosemarie wrote: "I wonder what will be next, Book Nerd?"
A smoke monster?

Manybooks wrote: "I think that in the English version, a daughter was added?"
Not in mine. Maybe that's a movie?

Book Nerd wrote: "I'm waiting for some dinosaurs. :)"
(view spoiler)[That snake was close enough lol. The kind of monster snake you would see in one of those horrible sci-fi channel movies. (hide spoiler)]

There are more characters in the english version?
So far it's just the parents and four sons.

And the plants are just as unlikely a combination as the animals. I'm waiting for some dinosaurs. :)

I've started it. I'm liking it so far.
There's an awful lot of "the fields we know". I wonder why he didn't just call it "The Princess of Elfland".
Here's your reading soundtrack: The King of Elfland's Daughter Playlist

Karin wrote: "I loved this as a child, but when I reread it as an adult I knew I'd never read it a third time, and not just because of the father, but the combination of animals found on this island as well as a few other things"
I see what you mean about the animals already.

Early on it reminds me a lot of The Mysterious Island.

I've had this on my shelf for a while so I'll read it now. My copy is abridged, which irritates me, but I don't want to bother getting a new one.

Manybooks wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "I finished tonight. Fairy Tales definitely don't try to make any sense, stuff just happens. There were a lot of good ones but some of the shortest ones just seemed really pointles..."
That sounds cool.

I finished tonight. Fairy Tales definitely don't try to make any sense, stuff just happens. There were a lot of good ones but some of the shortest ones just seemed really pointless.

Now I'll start Hans Christian Andersen.

Manybooks wrote: "There are some pretty funny stories included in the collection, but they are often not nearly as well known. One of my favourites is The Three Spinners, where a girl gets help from three oddly shap..."
Yeah that was a funny one.
A dark one I really liked is Faithful John. Happy ending but some really bloody mayhem.

168 The Peasant in Heaven made me laugh. :)

Manybooks wrote: "Many of the changes from the 1812 to the 1857 edition happened because by 1857, the Grimms’ tales were increasingly being read by parents to their children and there were complaints that some of the information in the tales were considered inappropriate,."
Wow, people were whining even back then.

It's funny how many elements were recycled through a lot of the stories. Glass mountains, dresses in nuts, a boy and girl who can for no particular reason turn into a rose and a bush, a lake and a duck, etc. Just a few off the top of my head.

And Nova was gorgeous!

I'm 120 stories into it. Some a great, some of the more obscure ones are obscure for a reason.

Thanks. I was just wondering.

Kirsten wrote: "I am so envious of all of you bi- and multi-lingual types!!"
Me too

Just finished Peter Pan.
"after a time he fell asleep and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy."
:o I assume that just means a wild party. More innocent times...

I really loved this. Glad I finally read it.

Does anybody know who the character Raine was in the last chapter? I'm not super familiar with all the DC stuff.

I really liked this too. It was nice and fast paced. I would have finished it faster but I was mostly just reading it on my breaks at work

(view spoiler)[Those experiments were pretty gruesome. I know similar experiments have been performed on apes and hopefully still aren't. But I couldn't escape the feeling that Cornelius was showing that to him to warn him off Zira. (hide spoiler)]

A couple of things I didn't like:
(view spoiler)[The whole racial memory thing was pretty dumb. They could have talked about the previous human civilization by just finding archeological evidence.

The framing story(I guessed that the couple would be apes from the beginning) but the idea of finding a bottle in space is ridiculous and where his narrative ended it made no sense that he would have been able to throw the bottle out into space. (hide spoiler)]

Brianna wrote: "Once you've finished, please share your thoughts on whether you think it takes place on earth or another planet! The ending is verrrry interesting."
(view spoiler)[I'm sure it was a different planet. The sun was much bigger than earth's and the system was different. For that to have been earth's sun it would have had to be billions of years later, not just a couple of hundred.
I'm guessing the author was going with a 60s Star Trek kind of logic where all planets basically develop life the same way. In this case a human civilization develops and eventually gives way to an ape civilization. When he got back to earth after more than a thousand years by my count the apes had started to take over there too. (hide spoiler)]

I like how he descends into savagery at the drop of a hat basically just because it's expected.

And the triangle between him, Nova, and Zira.