Andrew✌️’s Comments (group member since Jan 13, 2013)

Andrew✌️’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

I've finished Playback some days ago and now I'm reading Dreamcatcher. This book is great! I love the way King builds a thrilling situation, along with the sadness that he puts on every important turning point in the story.

I'm reading Mr. Mercedes, a thrilling story byStephen King

A couple of days ago I've finished Gateway, good book, but a mix between sciFi and psychological insight. Now I'm reading The Ringworld Engineers, the second of this seris. I like the style of Larry Niven and I have enjoyed it very much the novels I read till now.

Well! I couldn't wait to read this book and I've finished in one day, last week (I started with a couple of days in advance). I've seen all the classical movies since I was younger and the first with Daniel Craig, based upon this story.
I am a little disappointed about Bond. I was used to think about him like a man with charm and style (yes, in some cases a male chauvinist, but always with style).
In this book he is shown like a machine, cold and emotionless, whose opinion on women in some cases is "stay at home and leave men's work to the men."
(view spoiler)[In this book there is no trace of the Spectre, but there is the good old contrast between communism and capitalism. A good story, with few gadget and the unmissable bond girl. The card game looks like the synthesis of the cold war, with Bon and friends vs the Russian agent (hide spoiler)]
It's a rough Bond and I hope will change in the next stories.

This month I'm reading the entire "A Song Called Youth" series, by John Shirley. I've finished Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra and now I'm reading Eclipse Corona, the last book of the series.

A couple of days ago I finished Mostly Harmless and now I'm reading Treasure. I ever liked the adventures of Dirk Pitt.

Colleen wrote: "@andrew - I don't know if I could handle any more after the first one! Which I'm glad I read, but? Def weird/different. I think there is a movie version?"

The books after the first, had lost a little bit humor and have become more absurd. But I would finish the series, so I'll read also the others. There is also a movie, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (2005), funny, but I have watched it before read the book, so I think I had lost something. I suggest you to watch it.

Yesterday I've finished Wizard and Glass and today I'll start So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, the fourth book of the Hitchhiker Guide of Galaxy series.

Yesterday I started Wizard and Glass, continuing with "The Dark Tower" series. Today I read and finished The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy Of Mr Punch: A Romance, a wonderful work of Neil Gaiman.

Colleen wrote: "@Andrew - I loved Player One! Let me know what you think. I was hooked from the start."

I am at half book and I like it very much. The pace grow as story proceed and the stye like video games is amazing. I hope it doesn't get lost going forward.

In this moment I'm reading two books, Watership Down and Ready Player One.

Amy wrote: "Just started Treasure Island today and super liking it!"

I read this books two times in a couple of year. This is a wonderful example of adventure's book.

Finished:
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House

From these books, a good series.

Now I'm reading The Regulators.

In these days I'm reading The Jungle Book and The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes.

I've finished The Eye of the World and so there's another series I had to complete (in this case 14 books!). Now I went back to "The dark Tower" series and I'm reading The Waste Lands.

Finished The Number of the Beast and now I'm reading The Eye of the World, the first book of the WoT cycle.

Fariba wrote: "I don't like Spade. But I think because he has criminal qualities, he makes a great literary detective. He knows how to think like a criminal."

Interesting thing you said. The figure of private investigator seem to be more close to "bad guy" that to a policeman. So, Spade is the man that always falls to his feet and plays with the bad guys by their rules. This is part of his charm.

I started today and I like the characterization of Sam Spade, also the city and the charm of those years. I think that Sam Spade is on another plane respect Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is more intuitive, a more brilliant mind. Spade is rude, with a kind of code, but its not leal or correct, not a good boy, see his relation with 'Iva Archer'. He make what need, but he remember me an hound dog,don't stop till the end of the investigation and I think this will be a very good book.

I've finished a couple of days ago Don Quixote, a great and exciting book. Now I'm reading Pale as the Dead, a light but very intriguing novel.

A couple of days ago I started Don Quixote, a reading that I will work for a while.