Jessica’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2013)

Jessica’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

Tome wrote: "Well, I learned some science and some theology and a whole lot of new words. My copy was translated from the French (weird - I thought it was written in Polish) by Jonna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. ..."

Nice refresher! I will be flipping back through my book tomorrow to look for my quotes I highlighted. I will have to see if there are any words in there what stuck out to me.

While the information was a bit overwhelming at times, I give Lem credit. He was able to explain the planet on a level I could not begin to comprehend. For me it made things more real/ believable. At times it read like it was coming straight out of a textbook.

Ummm I think I will keep on my shelf. While, there were some extreme slow parts, I still enjoyed it and feel like I got a bood dose of the sci-fi shows I like to watch via a book. I just wish it had more of the plot in it and less scientific calculations/history/experimental jargon in it. I understand a little of it being there but the story got lost for me when it was there. Needed more balance between story and that.


One thing still bothers me. What was the story behind the black woman on the ship? I feel like it was a hole left wide open for me. I wanted an explanation of whose guest she was.

Matthew wrote: "And speaking of being 2 for 3 in suicide attempts, doesn't it bother anyone (including Kelvin!) that there may be a living Harey-prime #1 still orbiting Solaris in a rocket?"

This freaks me out to think about. I wonder if she is actually alive. Do we know is she would still thrive without oxygen since the supply is supposed to run out?

The second part had some boring moments with sprinkled and few exciting moments. I wanted more of the story and less history.

For this month, I have quite a few I want to tackle. I finished Solaris just in time lol.

Reading The Year of the Gadfly and The Windup Girl atm.

Never Let Me Go

Tanya wrote: "I finished One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and now I've just started The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Pretty heartbreaking so far."

I LOVE that book. One of my favorites!

Decided to read Marquis de Sade's Justine for the letter "Q" in case anyone else needs another option for that letter.

I will check that out! I am one of those people that judges a book by its cover (the artist side of me cannot help it). Every time I see that cover in the store. I just stare at it and almost buy it. I will probably be purchasing it soon. :)

Angie wrote: "Jessica, I LOVE Patrick Ness!"

After I get through a couple of reads I am doing with some goodreads buddies, I am going to start the Chaos Walking trilogy. I have heard so many good things about it. SUPER EXCITED!

Have you read A Monster Calls?

Karena wrote: "Angie wrote: "Karena wrote: "I finished last week and I regret to inform you the sparkly vampires did not show up and there were neither threesomes or aliens. I'm seriously bummed right now."

Well..."


I like YA but I do get really tired of the love triangles you mentioned on a post before. There are a few series I have a slight interest in and have avoided at the same time due to said triangles. Then there is all the teen angst. But the past few YAs I have read have been surprisingly more mature in that sense. John Green is one I really like. Getting into Patrick Ness's stuff too.

Karena wrote: "I finished last week and I regret to inform you the sparkly vampires did not show up and there were neither threesomes or aliens. I'm seriously bummed right now."

Well CRAP! We need more glitter vampires in the ya world. There really aren't enough. /Sigh....what will I do now?

j/k lol!

I plan to start in the next week or so. I am very excited about reading due to what you and Karena have said about it. :)

Signal

Well, I, apparently, am hooked! I think that is the fastest I have read in a while. I am trying to figure out the ocean's motive behind the "guests" right now. A part of me feels like it is just what it does. Like a reaction to an action. The action...people being there. The reaction is forming things from their existence. Does that make sense?

My other thought is that it is malicious in some way. It mentions that this started happening after the radiation stuff they did... But that wouldn't explain Berton's experiences. So many questions.

I wonder if they could do the book any justice now with a movie. Update some of the technological items in the book. Plus with all of the special effects we have now, it could be great. But there is so much that would be lost in the movie. It would have to be a really good screenplay writer to capture all the thought processes that would be lost.

It reads like a Twilight Zone or Xfiles episode. I think LalalaLaura made that comment somewhere in a thread and I agree. The more books I read with the group, the more I am glad I joined. This is not a book I would have picked up off a library or bookstore shelf. But between this one and Ender's Game (read last month), I have discovered that I love me some scifi!!! Good stuff!

Library

poetry

Fi wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Anyone have some good suggestions for the letter "Q" and someone with "X" in their name?

I have read Count of Monte Cristo so anything other than that for x, please."

I'm also goi..."

I didn't even think of using Huxley in "X". Thanks! Now I will looks at all the H's on my list lol :)

Anyone have some good suggestions for the letter "Q" and someone with "X" in their name?

I have read Count of Monte Cristo so anything other than that for x, please.

feathers

Blue eyeshadow (she wore a lot of it)