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

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

I'll start soon Metropolis soon. I've never seen the movie and I know the book is based on the movie so anybody who's seen it would you recommend the movie first or after?

Asimov invented the hive world, a completely urbanized planet, with Trantor.

How about Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie?

Such a great book. But I really like the second one best. The Mule is my favorite character.
I wonder how many of the people running the world today think they've figured out psychohistory.

I finished all the Lovecraft, semi-Lovecraft, and almost-Lovecraft.
Now I started The Watchers Out of Time by August Derleth.
Derleth basically set himself up as Lovecraft's heir and he's controversial among fans. When I was a kid trying to track down Lovecraft stories before wikis I bought his books because they said "Lovecraft" on the front and it's pretty good.
I also want to start watching the tv show Lovecraft Country.

I'm done with the list but wikipedia lists a couple more. You can read Four O'Clock(with Sonia Greene) right there but I can't find Satan's Servants(with Richard Bloch) anywhere!

There are a couple in my book by C. M. Eddy Jr. that are considered to have little to nothing to do with Lovecraft but I'll read them anyway.
Ashes, The Ghost Eater, The Loved Dead; and Deaf, Dumb, and Blind.

☑️Four O'Clock
Satan's Servants
☑️Ashes
☑️The Ghost Eater
☑️The Loved Dead
☑️Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

It's kind of hard to search for just "We". The author is Yevgeny Zamyatin. We
It's pretty short so hopefully I'll try to reread it.

Naphta wrote: "Felicia wrote: "Lesle wrote: "Im glad I am not the only one that is a Book Hoarder!"
One of my 2020 resolutions was to let things go. Including books that I have kept for years just because I might..."
Not me!

I noticed there's not a link for Metropolis so here's one: Metropolis: Anotated. I've never seen that and it looks pretty interesting.

The Trap and Till A'The Seas are two I haven't read yet.

I like his later, longer works a lot. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, also really like The Festival and The White Ship.
And Sweet Ermengarde was a very pleasant surprise.

Jazzy wrote: "I've finished the challenge - Might I suggest Guy de Maupassant or Edgar Allan Poe for next year?"

Darn, thought I'd finish first. :)
What were your favorites?

Jazzy wrote: "I've found a book that isn't on our list! I'm going to add it, that will make 100 stories.

The Colour Out of Space"

How the heck did The Colour Out of Space get left off?

I read In the Walls of Eryx a long time ago. I forgot it was a Lovecraft collaboration. It's interesting to see him writing some relatively modern sci-fi with ships and space suits rather than the aliens just flying through space on their wings.

I've been reading some of the oddball stories like"The Battle That Ended the Century" and "Collapsing Cosmoses" then I'll move on to my other book of revisions.

Yeah I was definitely confused about what was actually going on.

I've read this. Did not understand it. Maybe somebody can explain the ending to me.

Is this it?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_La...
It's really short so I'll read it soon.

Suki wrote: "The timelessness, and relevance to the present, of some of the classic dystopian works always startles me. I enjoy this story every time."
Yeah, human nature never changes.

I just finished the Watchmen series. That was an amazingly intricate nine hour movie. It might even have been better than the book!

Trisha wrote: "Sorry, I missed this before. I believe that black letter was a very old-fashioned font with stylised letters in a very heavy type. It was used for some of the earliest printed books, pamphlets etc when each character was carved on a wooden block & the blocks combined to create the text for printing."

Sorry, I missed this before. I believe that black letter was ..."
Cool, thanks.