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

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

Lol you should wear it around with all the other mask wearers in the stores.

This was a fun reread.
It was pretty hard to believe that nobody ever figured out what was going on before him though.
Also, I understand not wanting to let go but I will never understand the obsession with funeral customs. Why is it so much better to bury a corpse in a hole than to throw it in a fire? Or vice versa?

Don't forget the Homer Simpson version.

Oh yeah, I forgot the Will Smith movie.

Rosemarie wrote: "Since I couldn't get a copy of the book, I did a bit of research. There are three film versions of the book. The one with Charlton Heston is called Omega Man."
Cool. I didn't know there were three. The Omega Man is the only one I've heard of.

I finished. Enjoyed it pretty well. It reminded me a lot of Fight Club.
I didn't think the art was that great. It was kind of hard to tell the characters apart some of the time.

Rafael wrote: "I am not reading this book now but I read it some months ago. It is fascinating, I only had a problem with the dialect spelling. What it should be?"
Do you mean Harper? Yeah, He's kind of hard to understand. His accent's Scottish.

I just started. I have an elderly paperback from 1971 with Charleton Heston on the cover. I don't think it will survive another read.

I remember the story as a fairly simple and quick read.

Here's a nice map of the dreamlands.

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6610/...

I liked the part where he was talking to the statue of justice.

Also when you get to the Vicious Cabaret you might want to listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO4tQ...

It needs Guillermo del Toro. He's talked about doing At the Mountains of Madness before but that only has Elder Things and Shoggoths. Dream Quest has all kinds of cool creatures for him to bring to life.

This is the famous Alan Moore book I haven't read yet. I'm excited to read it. I'm already getting 1984 vibes.

I read this a long time ago. It's only 165 pages so I might reread it in a while.

I'm reading The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and it would make a really epic Lord of the Rings like movie.

Dumb comic book things: Superhero in high heels, Rorschach just walks into bars and breaks fingers never gets shot

Hooded Justice is the most mysterious character here. Did anybody know who he really was? He was gay and somebody mentioned the name of a boyfriend but I can't find the quote now. Was he somebody in the book or was it just a random name? (edit: It's Captain Metropolis)
Also the first time I missed that the Comedian might have killed him.

Looking at the movie again, it was spot on in a lot of things. Understandably they upped the action a lot.
Can't decide which ending I like better.
I did hate Nite Owl's costume. He just looks like an old fashioned batman. In the book he actually looks like an owl. But I like Silk Specter's better. Looks more like a superhero costume than just a dress. The rest were pretty accurate except Ozymandias had less color.

Lovecraft was obviously racist but I wonder what his big problem with Eskimos was? lol

Rorschach was my favorite character but rereading the Comedian is pretty cool too.

I've read The Call of Cthulhu several times. It's a lot like a remake of Dagon.
Did you know vigantillion is a real number?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti...

Rosemarie wrote: "Charles Dickens wrote a number of Christmas ghost stories for several years."

I'll get this when Christmas comes around: Christmas Ghost Stories

The Unnamable sums up a lot of what Lovecraft does. The idea that there are things so alien the human mind can't cope with them. It's difficult to translate that to words and almost impossible to the screen. When I read them the stuff sounds alien but not terrifying. I guess I'm just jaded from imagining the impossible too much.

I've read the first two chapters. Reading it again knowing what to expect it's even better.

Sorry but the story of Moe Vernon is hysterical!

Rafael wrote: "These ones were not written by Alan Moore. he refused to write them so the magazine hired other people to write them."
Yeah, Alan Moore hates DC with a passion. They screwed him out of the profits and now he'll have nothing to do with it, even for money.