I finished Moby Dick last night.
Mostly, it's phenomenal. There are passages in that book that I want to marry and have little half-human-half-paragraph babies with them. The language is a pure pleasure to read.
Still, for a book that's supposedly not really about whales...there was an awful lot of it that was all about whales. The infamous Catalog of Whales is nothing compared to the umpteen or so chapters that follow each devoted to "The Whale's Eye" "The Whale's Spout" "The Whale's Teeth" and so on. SO MANY FREAKING WHALES.
megan, based only on the description I have read about The Magicians, it makes me think of Giles's misspent magical youth.
I finished Moby Dick last night.
Can I get a "HELL YEAH!"?
SO MANY FREAKING WHALES.
Ah, but they're allegorical whales. Except when they're not.
Also, the word "effulgent" is used in this book approximately eighteen-jillion times. Spike would be proud.
I finished the third Mercy Thompson book tonight. It creeped me out more than the previous books, but it was a good book. If they ever make a movie or TV show from it, James Marsters should play Ben.
I've just finished the Bhutan chapter of
Geography of Bliss
by Eric Weiner, recommended by someone at a party recently. While I didn't have the same sort of revelations there (had some of a different sort), this concept of happiness is grabbing me. Because I'm really happy like I haven't been in a while, and part of his concept so far is that it is about the destination, not just physically, but culturally and that resonates. Liking this book, he's an eyeore like me.
t sits by Jessica
Allegorical whale holes, my ass.
Once, on Prairie Home Companion, Guy Noir was asking where some villain had found the plans to build the bomb or whatever, and she said that it was hidden in the whaling chapters of Moby Dick. I laughed and laughed.
Perhaps Spike's use of the word "effulgent" is due to a heretofore, unexplored influence of Melville on his oeuvre.
-t, which GRRM are you reading?
A Storm of Swords. My BiL gave me a Game of Thrones and Clash of Kings a couple of weeks ago and I picked up this one when I was done with those. I'm just about finished with it and telling myself sternly to not go find a copy of the next one right away, dammit. My To Be Read pile is not shrinking on its own.
