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

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

Not sure how I feel about the ending.
(view spoiler)[I know it's not the point of the story but I would have liked some more details.
I assume Bobbiebot cut Joanna's throat at the end but we don't know. Obviously the men were afraid to do it themselves.
I'd like to know about how Walter was recruited and what actually goes on at the men's club. (hide spoiler)]

That's true. I would have finished but I've been mostly just reading it a work. I'll finish it tonight.

I thought the parts where she's starting to do more housework and worrying that she's turning into one of them were funny. I'm pretty sure everybody knows the basic story by now but when the book was new I guess the readers were wondering too.

I'm liking it so far. It's very seventies. I think the seventies were a really good time for horror.

Lindenblatt wrote: "Ah, I thought we were going to read them in the order of publication, but I see I had misread this. Anyway, I should be getting to this sometime later this month."
Hm, yeah...I don't know why I did that. Well the author said reading order isn't important with the Hannish books.

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.

At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.

He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and no memory to tell who — or what — he was.
His eyes were not the eyes of a human.
The forest people took him in and raised him almost as a child, teaching him to speak, training him in forest lore, giving him all the knowledge they had. But they could not solve the riddle of his past, and at last he had to set out on a perilous quest to Es Toch, the City of the Shining, the Liars of Earth, the Enemy of Mankind.
There he would find his true self ... and a universe of danger.

I still haven't read The Dispossessed. I'll get to it all eventually.

And yeah, The Earthsea Cycle is great. I notice the first trilogy are all over fifty years old. I wouldn't mind rereading next year if people are interested.

Great job Mix.
This all makes me want to read it again.

Audrey wrote: "I'm currently reading The Princess and the Goblin. It's so good thus far! It's giving Alice in Wonderland and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader feels."
That was a group read a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it.

Kathy wrote: "I finished The Brothers Karamazov. At times, I wanted to abandon the book. It was just too long and detailed. (My problem, I know). There were many parts I enjoyed - mostly the part..."
Congratulations. The Brothers Karamazov is definitely worth it.

Yeah, there were sad parts.

(view spoiler)[Heinlein really likes extinct alien civilizations. Or at least he knows boys will. (hide spoiler)]

Welcome, Audrey.

I enjoyed it but not as much as Red Planet.

This will be my first time but the juveniles keep getting better.

The miniseries was finw but it didn't resemble the book much.

I just learned that there was a tv miniseries of this story. It's only 80 minutes. I'm going to watch it now.
It's on youtube. "Red Planet [1994] | TV Miniseries"

Bill knew his destiny lay in the stars, but how was he to get there?
George Lerner was shipping out for Ganymede to join the fledgling colony, and Bill wanted to go along. But his father would not hear of it -- far too dangerous a mission!
Bill finally talked his way aboard the colony ship Mayflower -- and discovered his father was right!

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

76 pages

Group Total:98,071

Glad you liked it.

Welcome Sunny and Jakob.