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

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

Sci-fi, now that's even harder.
Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things, I really love this trilogy and the author in general.
All of Dune(written by FRANK Herbert). A lot of people hate Dune Messiah for some reason, but it's my favorite.
The Foundation Trilogy
Stephen Baxter's Xeelee universe books. Transcendent, Ring, Xeelee: Endurance, etc.
And I'm a big fan of Star Wars books BEFORE Disney. I think they just make up a great long epic.

Yeah, this is extremely hard.
In fantasy my favorite is probably A Song of Ice and Fire. I love the huge world GRRM has built.
Of course I love Lord of the Rings. And Narnia and Harry Potter.
I've mostly read the best known fantasy.

Reading about Fantine, I cringed when she (view spoiler)[sold her teeth for money. (hide spoiler)]

It just seems odd that he would care. He's not political at all.
Anyway that was my one thought about the first part and I wonder how it will figure in the rest of the story.

I've read the first book about the bishop. It's wordy but not a bad read so far.
The one thing that interested me is that this guy's basically a saint and believes in the good in hardened criminals but he firmly favors a monarchy over a republic. Not sure what that means if anything.

I have the William Ellery Leonard translation. It's really poetic and the explanatory text is minimal but really helpful.
It's really a great heroic poem that makes you want to go out and slay monsters!

Just wondering, why three months to read it? It's pretty short.

This really was a great book.
Of the classics I've read, Dostoyevsky is probably my favorite author.

Yeah, I reread it too in anticipation of the movie, which I already suspected would be bad, but at least I got to read it again.
You should read some others. They're not very long.

Patrick wrote: "It doesn't help that a friend and I know a bit of Sindarin and would write notes back and forth getting each other exc..."
Is there a good book to learn Sindarin? Grammar and vocabulary.
Or any/all Tolkien languages?

My favorite author as a kid was John Bellairs.
His books are still great.

Rosemarie wrote: "Hi, Francis.
We will be reading Les Miserables over the course of three months, but so far we do not have a specific schedule."
I've never read it before but looking at my copy(it's divided into volumes, books, and chapters) three more or less equal chunks is:

1. Volume 1 to Volume 2 Book 6
2. Volume 2 Book 7 to Volume 4 Book 7
3. Volume 4 Book 8 to the end

Fear of commitment, I suppose. I don't like to be tied down to one book for a really long time.
All of last year I read most of the Wheel of Time series, reading only a little each day while I read other stuff.

Manybooks wrote: "Now, while The Silmarillion is of course partially a story, it is (at least for me) first and foremost a religious type document, a biblical, mythological account of the Elder Days of Middle Earth."
Yeah, that's it exactly. You have to have the right expectations. You kind of just learn more about Tolkien's other books.
I couldn't tell you a lot about the Silmarillion except some of the major evens but I enjoyed reading it.

Rosemarie wrote: "Book nerd, I love your dream job- a very creative job description."
Yeah, just got home from work. I've had enough of working for life. I have too much reading to do.

Marina (Sonnenbarke) wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "
O. Book you just finished reading? The Night Land it was meh"

Oh no! This is on my TBR!"
Yeah, it starts out really interesting but after he sets the scene it gets boring.

O. Kindle or Book? Book
U. Tea or coffee? Neither
R. Favorite color? Green
B. Author you love? Richard Calder
O. Book you just finished reading? The Night Land it was meh
O. Can't live without? Internet lol
K. Dream job? Unemployed billionaire
C. Vanilla or Chocolate? Chocolate
L. Your favorite book? Can't pick
U. Favorite past-time? Reading
B. You are....? A big nerd

Hi, I'm Jason from the U.S. I love reading, mostly sci-fi and fantasy but I want to read more classics this NEXT year(2019) so I thought I'd join this group.