Jesse, I'm reading it as part of NPRs I will if you will book club. Best concept ever.
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'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."
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 - 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.
Jesse - May 13, 2010 6:06:19 pm PDT #11416 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What they suggested in the show was that it was at least as much about the popular attention turning away from the sea and to the West.
Hayden - May 13, 2010 6:10:08 pm PDT #11417 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'm with Ginger. The Confidence-Man is an amazing novel, even more so for how much it presages modernism and postmodernism.