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

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

The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs

338 pages

Group Total: 173,909

I finally started this. I'm only a couple chapters in, reading about Eleanor.

I finished. It is confusing that these three books are in one volume just called The Moon Maid. I'm glad I read them all though The Moon Maid itself was my favorite.
The Red Hawk gets pretty much into ERB's weird, old timey ideas about race, much like in the Mars series.
I also thought it was weird that the va-gas were just quadraped humans. He couldn't conceive of sentient life that wasn't in some way human.

I also like that most of his books are in an early shared universe. I was hoping to read all the Venus books in May but reading it alongside this was too confusing so hopefully I'll still have time, if not I'll finish eventually. Then there are the Pellucidar books and I've never even read any Tarzan.
So many books, never enough time.

Yeah, Orthis causes even more trouble in The Moon Men. I just finished it.
It's cool how these stories are connected by one guy remembering his future lives.

Piyangie wrote: "I finally completed reading the five greatest tragedies. Here's the order of my preference:

1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Hamlet
3. Othello
4. Macbeth
5. King Lear"
Good job. I haven't read any in a while. I think Hamlet was my favorite.

I've had a lot of crap going on and I've been reading a lot slower than I'd like but I'm enjoying this so far.

Did you read the one with the whole trilogy?

I've finished The Moon Maid and I'm halfway through The Moon Men.

I love Stephen King too Jakob. A couple of his books are fifty years old now.
I just found his first published story:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OudAPlxI0Q

Welcome Meilyn and Maggie.

In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery inside the moon; he will live again in the dark years of the twenty-second century as Julian 9th, who refuses to bow down to the victorious Moon Men; and as Julian 20th, the fierce Red Hawk, he will lead humanity's final battle against the alien invaders in the twenty-fifth century. The Moon Maid is Edgar Rice Burroughs's stunning epic of a world conquered by alien invaders from the moon and of the hero Julian, who champions the earth's struggle for freedom, peace, and dignity.

It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein

160 pages

Group Total: 147,534

I should read this in June.

Okay, have fun.

I finioshed this the other day. I thought it was great. These books will really make kids think about authority and thinking for themselves. The ending was really abrupt and I'm not entirely sure what happened.
(view spoiler)[So I'm assuming they destroyed the federation ships just because they weren't destroyed themselves. He just said "the war is over." and that was the end of the book. I need to take another look at it. (hide spoiler)]

Don is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. And he fights for the rights of this curious citizenship in very curious ways. Heinlein reveals in a dashing fast-moving style what can happen when politics - on an interplanetary scale - disregard the liberty of the individual. In the end, only the remarkable scientist-dragons of a rebellious Mars can resolve the conflict within a man who cannot live without the society that he knows is killing him.

Yeah, the first half was okay but nothing that interesting. There seems to be a lot of traveling in LeGuin's books.

Welcome Val and Mannat.
I'm a big fan of Dostoyevsky too.

City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin

156 pages

Group Total: 137,954

This gets pretty good in the second half. In some ways it reminds me of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

195 pages

Group Total: 134,610