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

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

Read this quite a while ago. It's better than the Illiad but not as good as the Odyssey.

Tracey the Bookworm wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "It's funny how Irene keeps calling her "giant great grandmother" and such. I still can't decide if she's really some part of the goblin conspiracy or not.
Also I just finished the..."
I finished it. It was a pretty good little story.

(view spoiler)[At first I thought she might be evil because she was clearly using illusion. (hide spoiler)]

It's funny how Irene keeps calling her "giant great grandmother" and such. I still can't decide if she's really some part of the goblin conspiracy or not.
Also I just finished the descriptions of the goblin animals. They sure had odd ideas about evolution back then.

Kathy wrote: "This is my first time reading the book. I love the scenes from the hunting in the submarine forest."

Yeah, they were really so "shoot anything that moves" back then.

Patrick wrote: "Threads are weak to water, fire/heat, and cold. They usually get burned up entering the atmosphere, or freeze depending on where they land on Pern. Let me know if that answered your question :D"

Yeah, for something that survives in space they seem awfully fragile. They're also vulnerable to that fertilizer stuff.

Anyway, I finished. It was pretty good. Hopefully I'll finish the trilogy sometime.

I understand why she did it but I hate when they italicize a word like between. It makes me put a weird emphasis on it while I'm reading.

It's not really a question. Just doesn't make sense.

Why are the threads that travel through space destroyed by cold weather on Pern?

I've read this a couple of time. It's Verne's most famous book for a reason.

I just started this. Looks good.

Finished finally. A lot of things have been keeping me from reading.
I agree the australia chapters weren't as good but I really liked New Zealand.
A really great adventure.

You can understand why "larboard" was replaced with "port". It sounds almost the same as "starboard" when you're yelling across a ship. But I don't see what's wrong with right and left. :p

They sometimes said "volume" or "density" when talking about gravity. Gravity is determined by mass. No big deal. Thanks.

I did enjoy From the Earth to the Moon more. Though it wouldn't work as it was written, the space gun was a cool idea and way ahead of it's time.

I'm through the first twelve chapters and really enjoying it. Travel was such an adventure back then when the world was "bigger".

Mikiko wrote: "At the moment, I am reading a Japanese classic translated into English, I Am A Cat (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru) by Natsume Sōseki."
Cool, I want to read that soon. We're reading Kokoro in August.

I've been waiting for a copy. Guess I'll read at least a little of the online version though I hate reading off a screen.

There just really wasn't much to it. I guess Verne didn't want to speculate about what was actually on the moon.

So far it's a ton of description of the moon's surface. I liked From the Earth to the Moon better.

They keep saying "volume" and "density" when they mean mass. I think Verne would have known better. Has anybody read it in french? I wonder if that's a mistranslation.

Good story. The creatures reminded me of Lovecraft's deep ones. Also I wonder if James Cameron has read this.
There was a lot of explanation of the mechanism that made the sphere sink but I couldn't really picture it. Somehow cables made it sink and then it reeled them in?

Beagle, Peter S. The Last Unicorn
Hodgson, William Hope The Night Land
Stoker, Bram Dracula
Tolkien, JRR The Hobbit
Tolkien, JRR The Fellowship of the Ring
Tolkien, JRR The Two Towers
Tolkien, JRR The Return of the King
Tolkien, JRR The Silmarillion
Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Wow, my list is too short lol.
I hope to read the Conan Chronicles in the next year or two. That's about it for classic fantasy. Fantasy is such a big genre right now.

Asimov, Isaac Foundation #1(All of Asimov's robots-empire-foundations stuff)
Asimov, Isaac Foundation and Empire #2
Asimov, Isaac Second Foundation #3
Asimov, Isaac I, Robot
Asimov, Isaac The Caves of Steel
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles
Capek, Karel R.U.R.
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey(so much bettrer than the movie!!!)
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle
Heinlein, Robert A. Red Planet
Heinlein, Robert A. Starship Troopers
Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Herbert, Frank Dune
Herbert, Frank Dune Messiah
Herbert, Frank Destination Void
Herbert, Frank Under Pressure
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Jackson, Shirley The Lottery
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness
Lovecraft, HP At the Mountains of Madness
Lovecraft, HP The Call of Cthulhu
Lovecraft, HP Herbert West—Reanimator
Lovecraft, HP The Colour out of Space
Lovecraft, HP The Doom That Came to Sarnath
Lovecraft, HP The Dunwich Horror
Lovecraft, HP The Horror at Red Hook
Lovecraft, HP The Rats in the Walls
Matheson, Richard I Am Legend
Orwell, George 1984
Orwell, George Animal Farm (this is sci-fi?)
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Stapledon, Olaf Star Maker
Stoker, Bram Dracula(also this is sci-fi?)
Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth
Wells, HG The Time Machine
Wells, HG The War of the Worlds

I've been reading Heinlein. Starship Troopers was okay but I loved The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I want to read Stranger in a Strange Land soon.
Will read Jules Verne - Round the Moon and a few others with the group read.