“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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Friday, January 8, 2016
Challenge Link-Up Post: Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Dystopian Classic
Please link your reviews for your Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Dystopian Classic here. This is only for the Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Dystopian Classic category. Children's classics are acceptable in this category also. If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (The Hobbit)."
With John Wyndham's `The Chrysalids' the Classics Challenge has once more got me reading a genre I have always avoided. I was afraid of nightmare inducing creatures from outer space but what I found is the real nightmare I have known about since I was a small child when the levels of strontium 90 in our mandatory was reported daily in the newspaper. This book is as timely as ever.
Would one of Tolkien's shorter works taken from Tales From the Perilous Realm work as a fantasy choice? All of the 5 selections in that book are also published as stand alone books.
Just wondering because my library has the Realm book but not the shorter stand alone books.
Oops I didn't put my title! Linking up with Brave New World!
ReplyDeleteUtopia. Not at all what I expected!
ReplyDeleteReally loved reading Dracula!
ReplyDeleteYup...I still don't like Dystopian fiction!
ReplyDeleteWith John Wyndham's `The Chrysalids' the Classics Challenge has once more got me reading a genre I have always avoided. I was afraid of nightmare inducing creatures from outer space but what I found is the real nightmare I have known about since I was a small child when the levels of strontium 90 in our mandatory was reported daily in the newspaper. This book is as timely as ever.
ReplyDeleteI read The Hobbit with my kids. I loved it so much better than I thought I would :)
ReplyDeleteWould one of Tolkien's shorter works taken from Tales From the Perilous Realm work as a fantasy choice? All of the 5 selections in that book are also published as stand alone books.
ReplyDeleteJust wondering because my library has the Realm book but not the shorter stand alone books.
Finally finished Atlas Shrugged. Amazing. http://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2016/10/atlas-shrugged-by-ayn-rand-73-down-27.html
ReplyDeleteJust finished The Princess and Curdie by George Macdonald. Enjoyed it thoroughly!
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