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

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

This is pretty short so I'll reread it soon.

Patrick wrote: "That’s awesome! Do you have a pic of the book?"
Click the cover. >
It's a really big book(10.6 x 0.4 x 13.9 inches), with big full page illustrations. I'm sure I'll buy all the HPL stories he puts out.

I just got this awesome illustrated copy of The Call of Cthulhu and reread it. The pictures are a great addition.


I also got part 1 of At the Mountains of Madness. I'll read it again when part 2 comes out.

Lesle wrote: "FYI:
The term restroom derived from the fact that in early 1900s through to the middle of the century up-scale restaurants, theatres and performing facilities would often have comfortable chairs or..."
That's interesting. When I was a really little kid I remember my mom taking me into a women's bathroom with a couch in it lol. I think it was in some department store.

Yeah I've always thought "restroom" was an amusing euphemism.

It's always amusing when they're talking about their "toilet". I'm aware that basically means your clothes and grooming but still sounds weird.

I'm sure there was a countess that started with G somewhere.

Felicia wrote: "I had a lot of fun listening to this one on audiobook.

My husband has a movie called The Forbidden Kingdom, and I recognized some of the characters and places from that movie."
There are a lot of asian movies and shows that take a lot from Journey to the West. Especially anime.

In older books you often see names like "the countesse G---".
What's the point of not giving her n actual name? Is it to not confuse her with an actual historical figure?

Glad you liked it. I'm still reading slowly because too much other crap to do but I wish I could read it all quickly.

What other Dumas books would anybody recommend?

I finished the first part. It's as good as I remember and I'm surprised how much of the story comes back to me. (view spoiler)[ Now comes revenge! (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 16 (view spoiler)[He meets Faria, his Obi-wan. :) (hide spoiler)]

The first Sin City movie was great. Right out of the comics.
V for Vendetta was good too.

Yeah mine is just over 1200 pages and 80 chapters in three [edit FOUR] parts.

I know. I'm just wondering what they left out.
Journey to the West has a hundred chapters. It starts with Monkey's birth and a lot of his monkey business, goes on to Xuanzang's early life, they start their quest, meet Pig and Friar Sand, then lots and lots of episodic adventures. Probably a lot of those are what's left out.

God these are some looong paragraphs.
And there's endless descriptions of clothes but I want to know what witches, imp, goblins, pixies, etc look like. All we really know is that demons do in fact have horns.

I read Journey to the West a while ago. Which parts are in this?

I'm a few chapters in. Glad to finally be rereading this.

I started this. Wow, the language is difficult! The book's a hundred years old but he was writing like it was hundreds of years older.

Yule was made for Lovecraft :)

Carol of the Old Ones