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

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

I just read the first chapter. Sounds like an awesome vacation for $1250. Wish I could find a bargain like that lol.

John Dishwasher wrote: "This reads like a treatment for a novel more than as a fiction in its own right. Just a quick narration of ideas not fully elaborated into actual scenes."
Yeah, it would have been better as a novel.

When you guys quote could you use the relevant information?
"Anisha Inkspill wrote: "Mbuye wrote: "Anisha Inkspill wrote: "Mbuye wrote: "Anisha Inkspill wrote: "Lesle wrote: "Book Nerd wrote:"
is very hard to follow.

I finished. The writing was definitely unique and beautiful.
The whole thing of what was going on was kind of confusing. The dreams and humans apparently regressing. Of course humans didn't exist in the triassic so were they essentially using the reptilian part of their brains?

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

198 pages

The Vampyre by John William Polidori

72 pages

Group Total: 187,283

I want to read this later this month too.

Oh okay. But I don't think they're directly related.

Lesle wrote: "That is what I was thinking Inkspill. It would have been interesting to know what that conversation was like. Like how would one even start a random conversation like that? "Well I think both of you should write a ghost story""

I guess it's a reasonable thing to do in a world without tv and internet.

I've read this before and I'll give it another read since it's quick.
I had a copy but I can't find it so I'll read it online.
What's the prequel?

I think I have to find time to read Lonesome Dove before I read this.

Mbuye wrote: "Book Nerd wrote: "First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ..."
Glad you're liking the ssf. I usually struggle to read other genres lol.

Bernard wrote: "He has a unique style which gives a new dimension to SF."
That's what I've heard. I've never read Ballard before, I'm looking forward to it.

Karin wrote: "I just put a hold on it and might read it, although I've read so much global warming stuff (fiction and nonfiction) I am not sure yet if I'll read it."
I understand. I get sick of hearing about climate change too.

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed—both physically and psychologically—by this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness—complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers—this "powerful and beautifully clear" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.

Anybody else read this? I really enjoyed it.

Welcome back Anisha.

Audrey wrote: "Do you have to read the other books in the series before this one?"

No, this is the best known book in the series and the one most people start with.

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin


222 pages

Group Total: 169,044

Well I'm glad you're liking the SFF. There's no wrong way to enjoy it.

ULG is talking a lot here about how gender and the constant mating urge affects society and what it would be like if we didn't have it most of the time.
Society has progressed a lot more slowly but is a lot more peaceful, though that could be mostly because they live on such a difficult planet.

I haven't had the energy to read much lately but I read some of this last night.
I've gotten to the part where it basically turns into a wilderness survival story. I remember this is the part that I didn't like last time. I've enjoyed plenty of stories of wilderness survival before but it's just a weird, abrupt change from the politics and gender stuff.

I read this before and didn't care for it that much.
Reading it again the idea that gender was suppressed to help them survive on a really harsh planet and that it may have ended war is really interesting.

Ah ouija boards, the biggest villain in horror.

Welcome Lady.

The scary stuff really starts about a third of the way through the book. Before that I was mostly thinking that doctors in the 70s were so much more simple and helpful than they are now.