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

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

And Nova was gorgeous!

I'm 120 stories into it. Some a great, some of the more obscure ones are obscure for a reason.

Thanks. I was just wondering.

Kirsten wrote: "I am so envious of all of you bi- and multi-lingual types!!"
Me too

Just finished Peter Pan.
"after a time he fell asleep and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy."
:o I assume that just means a wild party. More innocent times...

I really loved this. Glad I finally read it.

Does anybody know who the character Raine was in the last chapter? I'm not super familiar with all the DC stuff.

I really liked this too. It was nice and fast paced. I would have finished it faster but I was mostly just reading it on my breaks at work

(view spoiler)[Those experiments were pretty gruesome. I know similar experiments have been performed on apes and hopefully still aren't. But I couldn't escape the feeling that Cornelius was showing that to him to warn him off Zira. (hide spoiler)]

A couple of things I didn't like:
(view spoiler)[The whole racial memory thing was pretty dumb. They could have talked about the previous human civilization by just finding archeological evidence.

The framing story(I guessed that the couple would be apes from the beginning) but the idea of finding a bottle in space is ridiculous and where his narrative ended it made no sense that he would have been able to throw the bottle out into space. (hide spoiler)]

Brianna wrote: "Once you've finished, please share your thoughts on whether you think it takes place on earth or another planet! The ending is verrrry interesting."
(view spoiler)[I'm sure it was a different planet. The sun was much bigger than earth's and the system was different. For that to have been earth's sun it would have had to be billions of years later, not just a couple of hundred.
I'm guessing the author was going with a 60s Star Trek kind of logic where all planets basically develop life the same way. In this case a human civilization develops and eventually gives way to an ape civilization. When he got back to earth after more than a thousand years by my count the apes had started to take over there too. (hide spoiler)]

I like how he descends into savagery at the drop of a hat basically just because it's expected.

And the triangle between him, Nova, and Zira.

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)]