Lisa’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2009)

Lisa’s comments from the Should have read classics group.

It is time to pick a new read or two for the children's read! Does anyone have a nominations?

It is time to pick some new group reads for the last half of the year. Does anyone have any ideas?

Cleo, it is going slow, but only because I had to finish another book to get back to the library. I'm only about 15 pages in(still in Book 1) and it is not too bad. The verse is much easier to read than Faust and it seems to flow better. The general timeline of the first sin, Satan and his angels falling out of Heaven, helps to make the reading easier.
The book I was finishing was in the Brother Cadfael series and since it is based in a Medieval England monastery that also helped think of my last question. The list sounds like an interesting place to start and it seems easier than just picking up a book on Augustinian or Origen essays. I still have a hard time remembering what time Vespers and Compline fall.

I was wondering during my reading, how would someone not familiar with Christianity stories and doctrine fair reading this and other classics? I'm not looking for a debate about religion nor meaning to offend anyone, it was just something I was thinking about.

Perfect! That is how I read Shakespeare!

After my failed attempt at reading Faust, I'm nervous about reading this one. It seems that the older classics seem to challenge my reading comprehension. I hope you all can bear with my discussion.

Well now I feel silly! Somehow I thought that it was a recent add on. Now I'm interested in this chapter although I really did not like Heathcliffe much.

Welcome to the group Margaret! I have enjoyed reading all your posts! I hope that you enjoy the group and keep up the posting!

Finally, my book has come in and it has the been split into different chapters. It gives a overview before the different books, so hopefully, I can understand the general idea. I'm going to start Book 1-The Argument.

I'm actually trying to finish the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters. I'm on The Confession of Brother Haluin.

Margaret wrote: "Favourite: Watership Down
Least Favourite: Brave New World"

I never read Watership Down in school, but after reading it in this club, it became a favorite of mine.

I'm still waiting on my copy to get here from my local library. It seems to be taking forever to get it. I apologize for the stall out in this discussion, hopefully soon, it will pick back up. Has anyone else got to start this book?

This is the discussion thread for the July and August group read-Paradise Lost.

I'm plugging along with this still. It is just hard for me to get the gist of what is going on still.

Laura wrote: "Is it too late to jump in?"

Not at all, this read goes on until the end of May! The more the merrier!

Thank you very much Nina! That link is great. I only had one English class in college and it was a writing class. This is quite a challenge to read this one! I noticed in my book that it said that he took 60 years to write this play. I can only imagine how a story would change over the course of a life. I can read a book that I hated in high school and get a completely different meaning from it now.

Nina wrote: "Sorry, don't know why the app is posting everything twice"

No problem.

Thank you that makes sense now that you said that.
I would have to agree with Longhare in the other thread that the next scene with the angels, Meph and the Lord remind me of the Book of Job.

I'm rather confused about the manager, poet and the jester. What is the purpose of the scene? I tried to grasp what was going on, but it did not seem to make sense in the context of the next scene.

This is the discussion thread for the last part of Part I. This read goes from March 25th-April 8th.