Moby Dick is Liver and Onions.
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Though in all honesty, it's more a categorizing I use when I used to sit on a committee that did nominations for prizes in Childrens and Young Adult literature. My committee nominated then kids voted. And it used to irk me to no end that some of the adults consistently chose spinach books. In reality, if this is a kids' prize, and it was, it was more important to me to choose books that kids were actually reading and enjoying, not books that moved me as an adult or made me cry.
I haven't read Moby Dick. Is Treasure Island close?
I like liver & onions and Moby Dick.
Treasure Island is fun, but its only relation to Moby Dick would be salt water.
Treasure Island, to most kids, is Liver and Onions. To some kids, it's just fun. To me, as an adult who is rediscovering Treasure Island, it's fun... but I'm not a kid.
But it has pirates and a treasure map! Kids these days.
This is irking on a level that is difficult to express without resorting to Brobdingnagian levels of profanity.
Just had to see that again. Lovely turn of phrase.
Just watched Munich. Totally broccoli.
I liked Moby Dick, but I read it when I was in my late 20's. Joyce is rich dark chocolate, mos def.
Liver and onions is Faulkner (I know, I know I'm Southern, but..). Embrace the period.
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