Never read it, passed the test on it in high school with flying colors. Our English teacher wrote each test individually based on what we talked about in class, and he filled out the test with questions about the footnotes. All I did was listen to the talks about metaphors and characterization and read all the footnotes.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Connie Neil - Jun 17, 2005 4:40:21 am PDT #7907 of 10002
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Ginger - Jun 17, 2005 4:51:14 am PDT #7908 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've read Moby Dick three times and I'm thinking it's about time to read it again. It's great.
I don't know that Melville made much stuff up, at least in terms of day-to-day whaling. He did work as a seaman for about four years, much of that on whaling ships.
Strix - Jun 17, 2005 4:58:49 am PDT #7909 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read it -- kinda -- for a AmLit class, but didn't pay that much attention to it. I was too busy skipping class and getting high, and I was all a BritLit snob.
-t - Jun 17, 2005 5:05:02 am PDT #7910 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I read Moby Dick a few years ago. I was amazed at how funny it was. No one had ever told me it was enjoyable and amusing, just important and long.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 17, 2005 5:05:35 am PDT #7911 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I read it -- kinda -- for a AmLit class, but didn't pay that much attention to it. I was too busy skipping class and getting high, and I was all a BritLit snob.
me, too Well, minus the high. Although I often skipped class to go shoe shopping.
Strix - Jun 17, 2005 5:10:30 am PDT #7912 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I went to college in a teeny town in MO. Th eonly place to buy shoes was Wal-Mart.
Remaining as stoned as possible was kinda a defense mechanism.
Nutty - Jun 17, 2005 5:13:03 am PDT #7913 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I was amazed at how funny it was.
Suddenly flashing back to that parody someone did -- DX? Tom Scola? -- which was all about Jonathan becoming morose, following funerals in the street etc., and inevitably heading back to Sunnydale. Perfect!
Consuela - Jun 17, 2005 5:30:04 am PDT #7914 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I did read Moby Dick, some years ago. I thought the writing was very good, but it was ultimately annoying as a story. And after a while the alternating chapters of inaccurate science got annoying as well. I was reading it the same time I was reading The Perfect Storm, which, as a work of fictionalized truth, I thought was a much better read.
DXMachina - Jun 17, 2005 5:32:44 am PDT #7915 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Suddenly flashing back to that parody someone did -- DX? Tom Scola?
Yup, 'twas me.
Theodosia did a parody of the same paragraph, too. [link]
Gandalfe - Jun 17, 2005 5:46:03 am PDT #7916 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I read it back when I was - what, 10, 12? And was so unimpressed I haven't read it since. Perhaps my adult self would appreciate it more that my prepubescent self.