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

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

I just finished Voyage to the Red Planet and I liked. It's not a sci-fi book "all aliens and technology", but it's a story of a vojage in the pure spirit of space exploration (or almost).

I finished The Gunslinger and started Voyage to the Red Planet, a sci-fi novel, but with a vein of humr

I finshed Lord of the Flies and I started The Gunslinger, the first book of "The Dark Tower" series. I don't know if I'll read them all, but in the meantime let's start with this.

A couple of days ago I've started Lord of the Flies, for a reading group.

I'm reading The Eyes of the Dragon. It's not an horror, but it's so much that I wanted to read

I Finished The Great Gatsby and started I re di sabbia, a collection of George R. R. Martin's novels

I finished today Tau Zero, a good sci-fi novel in the style of the seventies. I also started The Great Gatsby

I these days I've finished The Devil's Star, I read Wings and started Tau Zero

I started today The Devil's Star. It's the first book I read by Jo Nesbø, and particularly the first of the series of Harry Hole. Till now I like it.

After finished Ender's Game, I started yesterday Fahrenheit 451 and till now I read half of the book. I think that with holidays I could read a lot of books of my tbr list.

After Frankenstein I started Ender's Game. It's not bad, but it doesn't convince me. We'll see.

I finished this book and I liked it very much. The search for Christine by Raoul and the Persian is like a descent into the hell, populed by very strange people, for at last reach 'him' and put the word 'end' at the story.
It's a tragic story the life of Eric: a monster, a demon or a poor man.
Also this time the group has chosen a very good book.

Simply wonderful. I like the style of this author, and the book is easy to read. In these chapters the reader can think that the end is near, but non yet: there are some explanations and even more mystery, like ad example the strange behavior of the two directors.

Unill now I read more British classics, so I could say that I prefer those. But I read a few American classics, so I'll evaluate with next books.

The ghost has turned into a man by the ambiguous purposes, not yet clear. Apparently he can move easily, not only in the Opera, but also outside. Interesting to see that despite being made ​​of flesh, there is still the idea of ​​a supernatural creature.
Disturbing is the description that is made of him when Christine takes off the mask, the horror that emerges from those lines.
From descriptions, the Opera house seems to enormous proportions, both the underground that the upper floors. The idea of ​​the underground lake I think it's very original.

I didn't watch the movie, so my impressions are based only on the book. Is interesting the way is described the phantom, at this point only a voice, whose intentions are obscure. And the character of Chrinstine, in any case inscrutable, in others innocent and restless. As for Raul, the situation seems incomprehensible.
We'll see...

After re-reading Treasure Island, now I'm reading Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera

I started only now the book and after the first two chapters I have a very good impression.

Tanya wrote: "I'm reading Moby-Dick for the classic author challenge. :)"

And till now what do you think? I read it some years ago, but it wasn't like I expected. Little action and so much bla,bla...

I finished Long John Silver, a novel on sailors and pirates, based on the character of the book "Treasure Island". A good story, interesting and fascinating
but whose strength is the expectation of a link with the orignal story of Stevenson.