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

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

Now we have the Efrafa (view spoiler)[Fascist bunnies. or maybe we could call them covid bunnies since fear was the beginning of their control.

This is reminding me a lot of Animal Farm showing different dystopian societies. (hide spoiler)]


"'Animals don't behave like men.' He said. ' If they have to fight they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.'"

I love this. How do you add something to My Quotes again?

Yeah, I don't know what Kehaar's accent is supposed to be.

I'm only about a third of the way through but it's a good read so far. I knew this wasn't a kid's story but the fact that it's happening to bunnies just makes it have a unique impact.
Fiver is kind of a crazy prophet. He and Hazel make me think of Moses and Aaron.
(view spoiler)[The rabbits in the warren they come to that Fiver doesn't trust remind me of the Eloi from The Time Machine. They know they could be picked off but accept it because they have an easy life. (hide spoiler)]

He clearly did his research on rabbit behavior. And I like the Lapine language is fun.

I just started. Been meaning to read this for years.

I read the collection a year or two ago. It was a good story but not my favorite in the book.

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft


128 pages

Total to Date: 39,896

The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang


321 pages

Total to Date:39,765
(hopefully I got it right this time!)

Liane wrote: "Did anyone read Sphere by Michael Crichton? It's been decades, but this reminded me of that since that also had a psychotherapist as the MC. I wondered why Kris didn't seem to have better control over his own feelings/ reactions given his occupation."
I reread Sphere recently and I definitely saw a lot of similarities. As well as to a lot of other sci-fi I've read. This book was obviously influential.
I guess psychologists are as crazy as the rest of us. :)

I have these and I'd like to read them in order. Hopefully I can start in February.

I've read The Martian Chronicles and a couple of his other books. I'll read some more of these this year.

Samantha wrote: "Oops, Book Nerd. Math error.

Group total to date: 19,287"
Oh, I was looking at the wrong page.

I haven't read any Shakespeare in forever but I read Twelfth Night tonight and enjoyed it. Hopefully I'll read more this year.
What are everybody's favorite comedies?

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare


76 pages

Total to date: 9,666

Karin wrote: "I have given up on The Tale of Genji. I find it utterly boring and after a couple of chapters decided that life is too short when there are so many other classics left to read."
It was kind of a slog but it was interesting to see that period of history and for being the first novel.

This artist does huge, fully illustrated versions of Lovecraft stories. Now I want to read At the Mountains of Madness again.

Solaris by Stanisław Lem

204 pages

Total to date: 9794

I read the Kilmartin/Cox translation. I don't know what I was missing but it was perfectly readable. There was a lot of imaginary science some people would find tedious but I don't mind that.

Armin wrote: "We are used to see aliens in popular culture as similar entities to humans. So, who's to say that they should have physical bodies like humans, and why can't they exist in different forms, shapes, and communicate on different levels?"
I love some nonhuman aliens.
Interestingly, I think I read about a theory similar to this. That before actual cells evolved the ocean was a sort of "prebiological" soup.

Did anybody else think (view spoiler)[he was going to jump into the ocean in the end? (hide spoiler)]

I'll start this in a week or two.

A Mysterious Visitor was really annoying with the constant misunderstandings but I enjoyed this book overall. The stories weren't terrifying but they were probably pretty creepy to Victorians.