tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post4303537887395071302..comments2023-05-02T09:08:52.494-05:00Comments on Resistance is futile: The Invisible Man, by H. G. WellsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01974988315420539840noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-9500231549166386752012-09-29T18:35:46.658-05:002012-09-29T18:35:46.658-05:00Thanks for stopping by Lynn! This is a book that c...Thanks for stopping by Lynn! This is a book that changes meaning with time and maturity, so you might really enjoy a reread. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01974988315420539840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-79983276675917435862012-09-29T06:56:09.181-05:002012-09-29T06:56:09.181-05:00I enjoyed that review. Very interesting. I read ...I enjoyed that review. Very interesting. I read this a very long time ago but can't say I remember it vividly now! I should probably revisit.<br />Thanks<br />Lynn :DLynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928865767523025349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-28496960690445064372012-09-14T07:00:13.886-05:002012-09-14T07:00:13.886-05:00Thanks Fay. Milton's anti-hero had a huge impa...Thanks Fay. Milton's anti-hero had a huge impact on literature for centuries...I'm enjoying learning all about it while I'm studying Paradise Lost. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01974988315420539840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-54938361886492103002012-09-13T22:19:18.411-05:002012-09-13T22:19:18.411-05:00Well, yes, I guess Milton did write the ultimate a...Well, yes, I guess Milton did write the ultimate anti-hero, didn't he? Just had not thought of it in that way. Good post. Fayhttp://www.readramble.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-86408973081623147492012-09-09T21:46:58.847-05:002012-09-09T21:46:58.847-05:00Without repeating everything I said on your RIP en...Without repeating everything I said on your RIP entry post, I will say once again that I just need to pick up a copy of this and add it to the pile. :)Carl V. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948764216438379394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-68834873820910507102012-09-02T13:12:39.679-05:002012-09-02T13:12:39.679-05:00And of course that should have been Griffin, not g...And of course that should have been Griffin, not griffen!<br />Ah well :)<br /><br />Laziness must be going around, I had loads of ideas for essays this week round, but they seemed to require so much thought and I went with a much easier option. Ah well.<br /><br />And Paradise Lost is well worth getting stuck inFencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04478271943214944729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-6282963677454886012012-09-02T12:09:36.779-05:002012-09-02T12:09:36.779-05:00Fence: I probably should have pointed out in my es...Fence: I probably should have pointed out in my essay that he was made farcical BEFORE he was made tragic. I thought about it while I was writing...perhaps I was just too lazy. :) There's time to revise for the assignment, though! <br /><br />Arenel: :) My mind has been sort of stuck on Paradise Lost since I've been studying it recently. I see its influences everywhere now. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01974988315420539840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-63202404248604287912012-09-02T11:59:24.822-05:002012-09-02T11:59:24.822-05:00You'll finally make me read "Paradise los...You'll finally make me read "Paradise lost" some day =))Arenelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08646965847129179304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863301599557441497.post-29093984720817148492012-09-02T11:59:20.083-05:002012-09-02T11:59:20.083-05:00Your essay makes me feel sad for Griffen whereas r...Your essay makes me feel sad for Griffen whereas reading the book I just wanted to smack him and his delusions of grandeur :)<br /><br />I think that if the book had started out with a first person narrator I could possibly have empathised with him a bit more, but I'd already come to know him as a grump and so was predisposed to dislike him. And then of course his own admittance that he cared for nothing but the power and the glory meant I was never going to like him Fencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04478271943214944729noreply@blogger.com