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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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When you sat "grotesques" does that just mean weird looking and acting people?
I'm ninety pages into Titus Groan. It was really slow getting started but now stuff's starting to happen. I'm picturing it as a Tim Burton animated movie.
I'll try to read it but probably not for a while. It's listed for June and July.Okay so I've been warned about the third book.
They say money can't buy love or health. But it can buy everything else. And it makes even those easier.Bind Your Hair was weird and fun. Yes, now that Canavan pointed it out I can see that there's a lot of sex in these.
"The first, so far as he could make out, told of a youth who, on being offered by a sage alternative gifts of Wisdom, Wealth, or Virtue, the gifts losing nothing of impressiveness by their Teuttonic initial capitals, selected Wealth. The sage thereupon remarked that the choice proved the youth already had Wisdom as he would now be able to afford Virtue."
I just finished The Waiting Room. Yeah, definitely reminded me of something by Dickens.So they're all about sex and death? I guess that makes a kind of sense.
Bernard wrote: "Yes, I was disappointed by The School Friend too, but fortunately the other stories are better. All I can fathom is that Sally gave birth to some kind of monster. And the ending gave no disclosure at all."It was like lots of pieces of horror stories that didn't actually connect.
I didn't finish Ringing the Changes at work but it seems pretty good.
I just read The School Friend. Didn't understand it.
John wrote: "Finished re-reading Persuasion today, and greatly enjoyed it. Its handling of the shifting importance of class vs money, was interesting. [spoilers removed]"Yeah, it's always funny to read books with these broke nobles who are too good to make money and look down on people who do. Hurray for capitalism!
I read Persuasion. Definitely liked it less than Pride and Prejudice. There was less humor.
I've read Over Sea, Under Stone and The Dark is Rising now. Both were pretty good but when they start moving back and forth in time to do things it always seems a little dumb to me. Why not just get it done before all this trouble starts? I'm probably the only sci-fi fan who doesn't really like time travel.
Pam wrote: "I want to read the book but will have to wait! Scary doesn’t bother me. I can’t keep up with the pace in this group! I’m still reading Solaris. I keep getting distracted by other books."I understand. I probably won't get to this until next month.
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
243 pages
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
244 pages
Total to date: 78,760
I finished. I'm so glad I finally read this one!
The rabbit in the moon is a thing in eastern mythology:
Trisha wrote: "I haven’t added new quotes, but it looks fairly easy. Using the website, go to any page where your own icon is shown at the top right of the screen. Click on it to get a menu. The menu includes “quotes” - click on this & it shows your existing quotes on the left, with numbers to rearrange the order. Instead, choose “add a quote” from the 3 options shown in green on the right. You will see a new screen with instructions on what to do. I hope this helps."Thanks that did it.
