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

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

There are actually eleven books. From what I've heard one wasn't actually written by Burroughs.

The way he gets to Mars is really interesting. (view spoiler)[Basically he has a body on each world and it goes into suspended animation when he's in the other one. (hide spoiler)]
And the green Martians are really cool.

It was a cool but weird book. But I really think I like the movie better on this one.

It was cool that the humble toad was a sacred animal. :)

Most, probably all, of these have been animated.
"How the Old Man Lost HIs Wen" is my favorite. Really cool old animation. I saw an old animation of Momotaro once too but I couldn't find it.


The Tongue Cut Sparrow

The Story of Urashima Taro the Fisher Lad

The Farmer and the Badger

The Story of Princess Hase

The Old Man Who Made Withered Trees Flower

The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab

Momotaro

How the Old Man Lost His Wen

I just started it. I'm familiar with some of these stories already.

Yeah, the translation is a huge deal. It depends on my eyes and my contacts day to day. When I have some hours to read undisturbed I sometimes take them out and literally put my nose in a book.

Anyway War and Peace is going well. It's no more challenging than Les Miserables.

Yeah, I'm taking my time. I'm about forty pages in. It's not bad so far. Just wish the print wasn't so small!

I just started War and Peace. Don't know why but this one intimidates me more than the other hefty classics I've read.

Makes sense. My copy has an introduction by Gaiman. Stardust sound pretty cool.

Lirazel is an obvious forerunner to Arwen.
Orion is pretty boring with his obsession with hunting.

I'm enjoying this. Not a lot of action but a lyrical fairytalelike story.

Rosemarie wrote: "I wonder what will be next, Book Nerd?"
A smoke monster?

Manybooks wrote: "I think that in the English version, a daughter was added?"
Not in mine. Maybe that's a movie?

Book Nerd wrote: "I'm waiting for some dinosaurs. :)"
(view spoiler)[That snake was close enough lol. The kind of monster snake you would see in one of those horrible sci-fi channel movies. (hide spoiler)]

There are more characters in the english version?
So far it's just the parents and four sons.

And the plants are just as unlikely a combination as the animals. I'm waiting for some dinosaurs. :)

I've started it. I'm liking it so far.
There's an awful lot of "the fields we know". I wonder why he didn't just call it "The Princess of Elfland".
Here's your reading soundtrack: The King of Elfland's Daughter Playlist

Karin wrote: "I loved this as a child, but when I reread it as an adult I knew I'd never read it a third time, and not just because of the father, but the combination of animals found on this island as well as a few other things"
I see what you mean about the animals already.

Early on it reminds me a lot of The Mysterious Island.

I've had this on my shelf for a while so I'll read it now. My copy is abridged, which irritates me, but I don't want to bother getting a new one.

Manybooks wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "I finished tonight. Fairy Tales definitely don't try to make any sense, stuff just happens. There were a lot of good ones but some of the shortest ones just seemed really pointles..."
That sounds cool.

I finished tonight. Fairy Tales definitely don't try to make any sense, stuff just happens. There were a lot of good ones but some of the shortest ones just seemed really pointless.

Now I'll start Hans Christian Andersen.

Manybooks wrote: "There are some pretty funny stories included in the collection, but they are often not nearly as well known. One of my favourites is The Three Spinners, where a girl gets help from three oddly shap..."
Yeah that was a funny one.
A dark one I really liked is Faithful John. Happy ending but some really bloody mayhem.

168 The Peasant in Heaven made me laugh. :)

Manybooks wrote: "Many of the changes from the 1812 to the 1857 edition happened because by 1857, the Grimms’ tales were increasingly being read by parents to their children and there were complaints that some of the information in the tales were considered inappropriate,."
Wow, people were whining even back then.

It's funny how many elements were recycled through a lot of the stories. Glass mountains, dresses in nuts, a boy and girl who can for no particular reason turn into a rose and a bush, a lake and a duck, etc. Just a few off the top of my head.