I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.
One of us. Gabba Gabba Hey.
You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?
Cordelia ,'Chosen'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - May 13, 2010 5:02:37 pm PDT #11406 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:24:29 pm PDT #11407 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Watching the American Experience on whaling this week made me want to re-read it for the first time ever.
Kat - May 13, 2010 5:29:16 pm PDT #11408 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse, I'm reading it as part of NPRs I will if you will book club. Best concept ever.
Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:35:49 pm PDT #11409 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's hilarious.
Kat - May 13, 2010 5:37:10 pm PDT #11410 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse: [link] the latest blog post about it. I agree. Whale fatigue has set in.
Their first I Will If You Will book, interestingly, was Twilight!
Hayden - May 13, 2010 5:40:29 pm PDT #11411 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I have to say, I'm reading Moby Dick and I totally am enjoying it.
My screen name is Corwood Industries and I approve of this statement.
Kat - May 13, 2010 5:45:00 pm PDT #11412 of 28344
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I wonder what their next book will be. I think something light. But I totally think a great I Will if You Will would be Ulysses. Or Swann's Way. Or Don Quixote.
Jesse - May 13, 2010 5:47:04 pm PDT #11413 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was relieved to learn, at least, that Moby Dick was a commercial failure and the end of Melville's career. Not because I'm saying it's not good (I have no idea; my 16 year old self wasn't into it, but that doesn't mean anything), but because I could never believe it would be generally popular.
-t - May 13, 2010 5:51:36 pm PDT #11414 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I was surprised how much I enjoyed Moby Dick after hearing my dad complain about what a slog it was my whole life. But he had to read it for school and I read it on a lark.
Ginger - May 13, 2010 6:05:07 pm PDT #11415 of 28344
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Moby Dick was not hugely popular, but it was really the scathing reviews of his next two books that ended his career as a novelist. Pierre is hard to defend, but The Confidence Man is an excellent book. It was just very much at odds with what the 19th century audience expected of a novel. It didn't help that people wanted Melville to keep writing suggestive novels about naked Polynesian women.