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

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

Georgina wrote: "I was also struck by the resemblance between dream and Gaiman, he said in an interview with The Guardian ‘I suppose he looks like me, though. But that's one of those peculiar things where you gradually start to look like your dog.’ that did make me chuckle :)"

Yeah, I can't get the resemblance out of my head.

Brianna wrote: "There were also two television series (one live action, one animated), which I want to go back and watch again to see if they included elements of the book or were simply their own standalone plots."
Don't forget the musical!
Stop the Planet Of The Apes I Want To Get Off

I haven't finished yet but apparently this takes place on a different planet unless it is somehow going to be revealed to be earth. It also makes more sense that the apes speak another language.

I have this in three books. Don't know why I've never read them before.
I just read the first "chapter". Really good so far.

I just started. A few weird technical details:(view spoiler)[He said it would only take a few hours longer to travel 200 light years than 4 at sublight speed? A woman just strangled a chimp? They're strong! (hide spoiler)]

I'll start this one soon. I'm interested to see how different it is from the movie.

Phew! I went through the whole thing.

1. I count 93

2. 10-Not much but I've read the best, The Count of Monte Cristo and Les Miserables. The rest are Jules Verne. I hope to read all of the Extraordinary Voyages.

3. 31-Mostly Tolkien, Wells, and Shakespeare.

4. 41

5. Lo siento, just Don Quixote. I think Latin America should be separate from Spain and Portugal though.

6. 8-I really like Dostoyevsky.

7. 2-Pinocchio and The Divine Comedy Lol that's quite a range. I plan to read The Decameron this year.

8. 7-I think. Three are Kafka.

9. 3-But two are only single fairy tales. I'll read all of Hans Christian Anderson this year. I think all of the Icelandic Sagas should be on there. I've read a few of them and I'd like to read them all but it's hard to get a lot of them in English.

10. Only R.U.R.

11. 5 from the shelf. Some suggestions: Journey to the West(complete), Outlaws of the Marsh, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2, Dream of the Red Chamber, The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering(only comes in five volumes in English), The Analects of Confucious, The Art of War, The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu

12. None

13. None. I want to read The Arabian Nights soon.

14. None. I'd suggest The Kebra Negast, with 15 original illustrations from Ethiopia and The Egyptian Book of the Dead.

15. None.

16. None.

Yeah I had a week off and I finished.
I must have read an abridged version in high school. No wat we read 1200 pages.

I started Pride and Prejudice. Lots of names come at you fast in the first couple of chapters. I'm still trying to sort them out. Lots and lots of witty banter that probably goes over my head lol.

I take it to mean surrender yourself to higher powers, And while I'm definitely not a very proactive person I don't agree with that.

Jazzy wrote: "Fast forward to a couple years ago when I got some Barnes and Nobles classics and read The Arabian Nights followed directly by The Count of Monte Cristo.

I think Dumas must have been fascinated by those tales. And I would recommend that everyone reads both books so they can see how the stories intertwine."
That's interesting. I've never read The Arabian Nights.
I'd really like to know about the missing years of his life.

Lesle wrote: "“Wait and hope”

Thoughts on this quote?"
Pretty pointless if you ask me.

Mikiko wrote: "I did not know that he wrote a short story in 1888 that was to become the foundation for The Time Machine. Has anyone read it?"

Interesting. I'll check it out.

This guy is a terrible planner especially for an engineer.
(view spoiler)[Doesn't seem to know how to make fire without matches or how to make a torch. Walks for miles to pick up a damn club! (hide spoiler)]

Rafael wrote: "(view spoiler)[ In the end we humans lean our sympathy towards the species alike ourselves. (hide spoiler)]."
(view spoiler)[Meh, not really. I usually side with the aliens. (hide spoiler)]

Jazzy wrote: "PS if you want to learn to read in another language you can start by teaching yourself one! You'd be surprised how far you can get with free programmes and sites online."
I've tried. And failed. I just don't have the brain for languages.

Rafael wrote: "This book contains a lot of wells ideology concerning class struggle. The Eloi and Morlocks exemplify it well. I will not say more to not spoil it."

Yeah definitely. (view spoiler)[But Wells is so clearly sympathetic to the Eloi rather than the Morlocks. I don't get it. (hide spoiler)]

Rosemarie wrote: "Trisha, Kafka is not for everyone! I read his works in German and read The Castle for a university German course. I think that his work loses a fair bit in translation. I thought The Trial was his ..."
I wish I could read another language.

I really loved The Trial because it showed how things just gain inertia in society and they keep happening and snowballing for no logical reason.

Jazzy wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "I've read The Trial, The Castle, and of course The Metamorphosis. The Trial was my favorite. If I didn't have a million other things I want to read right now I'd read [book:Amerik..."
Maybe that was part of it but he didn't just become Jewish one morning.

Lol chapter 59 (view spoiler)[A whole chapter about Noirtier making his will with blinks (hide spoiler)]

I've read The Trial, The Castle, and of course The Metamorphosis. The Trial was my favorite. If I didn't have a million other things I want to read right now I'd read Amerika.
I definitely agree with a lot of Kafka's views on society.

I never saw what the big mystery of The Metamorphosis was. Seems pretty obvious to me. (view spoiler)[He had a terminal illness. It made him seem disgusting like an insect to most people. At first the family had some sympathy but eventually he was just the dirty secret in the back of the house, abused by the maid, and the family was just wishing he would hurry up and die. Then he did. (hide spoiler)]

What do you think of the count's magic elixir?
Seems almost like a philosopher's stone to me.