Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

The final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was meant to be just that: only a test. But something has gone terribly wrong...and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact with Earth, at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. Stripped of all comforts, hoping for a passage home that may never appear, the castaways must band together or perish. For Rod and his fellow survivors, this is one test where failure is not an option....

This is a survival book, nominally science fiction.
It's interesting to see how the different characters work together- or don't work together.
I enjoyed it, but not as much as some of the other books we've read this year.

Well I'm glad you enjoyed it somewhat. I'll read it soon.

Rosemarie wrote: "This is a survival book, nominally science fiction.
It's interesting to see how the different characters work together- or don't work together.
I enjoyed it, but not as much as some of the other books we've read this year."
I see your point but I like a survival story too so I'm really enjoying it.

I'm halfway through and my theory:
(view spoiler)[They ARE still on earth. The time travel thing finally worked, accidentally.
They're probably a few hndred thousand years into the future for the constellations to have changed and who knows how the moon broke up. (hide spoiler)]

Some great quotes in here:
"I think you are a romantic. Now this is a very romantic age, so there is no room for romantics in it, it calls for practical men."

"Life, all life has the twin drives to survive and to reproduce. intelligence is an aimless byproduct except as it serves these basic drives."

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

And the one I want to use all the time --"were you born that stupid? Or did you have ti study?"

(view spoiler)[Well, I was wrong.
The ending kind of reminded me of one of my favorite books as a kid, My Side of the Mountain, where in the end he winds up having to go back to a society he wants no part of.

BTW, My Side of the Mountain could be a good wilderness or children's book read. (hide spoiler)]

I liked My Side of the Mountain.