Book Nerd’s
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(group member since Dec 20, 2018)
Book Nerd’s
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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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Tony wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "What was the point of the "most beautiful woman in the world" thing?"My take on this was that [spoilers removed]"
Yeah, that makes sense.
Audrey wrote: "I think it goes back to carnivals showing off “the fattest man in the world” or “the tallest man in the world” and so on. But the beauty is a deception here."It just seemed to have nothing to do with anything. (view spoiler)
Overall I thought the poeticness of it distracted from a pretty simple story.
Reading is difficult these days but I finally finished.Two things that seemed really unlikely to me:
(view spoiler)
But anyway I really liked this one.
None of Lovecraft really scares me. He hints at things that are obvious and not that horrifying. His monsters are just supposed to be incredibly alien. But I do love his stories because of the atmosphere and the huge cosmic entities always somehow tied to inbred hicks in tiny towns.
It took me a long time to realize that "esquimaux" means "eskimo" lol.
Where's this month's Verne book?
If you've read A Song of Ice and Fire you can see what an influence this was.Here's a map of the Dreamlands I like.
Dreamlands
What was the point of the "most beautiful woman in the world" thing?
Karin wrote: "Good thing you didn't grow up in historical Iceland which, due to a lack of salt, preserved its food by fermentation so it was slightly rotten. I would have HATED that."Ugh, yeah. But I guess we'd learn to tolerate it if we grew up there.
Vince wrote: "A lot has been said about the Aeneid's ongoing influence on Western literature, the most obvious reference being Dante's The Divine Comedy. One that I think is often overlooked is The Prose Edda, which says the Norse gods were refugees from Troy (and thus, of course, humans unworthy of worship - but still "superior" to northern Europeans)."That's really interesting. I'd like to read The Prose Edda some time.
John wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "To me coffee and alcohol are one step up from drinking out of a toilet."It's funny that you say that because beer was mainly consumed in the past because all available water was basically toilet water. It was one of the few ways you were able to get enough fluids in your body without becoming ill from dysentery or whatever other fun things were in the water back then. Granted a lot of beers during that period were pretty low in alcohol content.
I don't see how that works. Alcohol dehydrates you.
I just really don't see the appeal of drinking something rotten. Or something bitter like coffee.
There is quite a bit of hunting. I know it's a product of it's time, just seems crazy and reckless these days.They also do something crazy later on, you'll see.
To me coffee and alcohol are one step up from drinking out of a toilet.
Yeah, the Russian and Brit leaders have a very weird relationship and it gets weirder.
It's been a long time since I read this. Interested to see what people think of it.Patrick wrote: "I don't know about you but I could read anything by Frank Herbert after reading his Dune series!"
He's my favorite sci-fi author. You really have to read Soul Catcher(though that's not actually sci-fi).
It was pretty good. The whole exploration in a strange last when the world was still big is always cool.There was a lot of trigonometry that I didn't really make an effort to understand and a lot of hunting.
I enjoyed it. It's interesting to see what it was like when things like this were new.I don't think the type of ship was to blame. Stuff just happens.
shannon wrote: "The " aliens" in Childhoods End is not nearly as creepy as the ones in Lilith's Brood. I was just suspicious of the ones in Childhoods End."I really wasn't. As Frodo said: I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.
