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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."

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Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2005 10:11:16 am PDT #7939 of 10002

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I have not read the whale book. I should. I've read other Melville.

Having lost many hours of my life that I can never get back to the quintessential boredom of Billy Budd and Bartleby the Scrivener, I can't imagine this encouraging you to read more rather than conditioning you against it.

Nutty - Jun 17, 2005 10:46:07 am PDT #7940 of 10002

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I've read "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "My Kinsman Major Molineux." I always meant to get to Typee and haven't; I think it's in the queue right after the rest of Joseph Conrad.

I saw the 1960s movie of Billy Budd, and am reliably informed that the book version can't possibly compete with Terence Stamp's girlish loveliness.

P.M. Marc - Jun 17, 2005 11:07:57 am PDT #7941 of 10002

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I saw the 1960s movie of Billy Budd, and am reliably informed that the book version can't possibly compete with Terence Stamp's girlish loveliness.

Sadly, this is true.

Ginger - Jun 17, 2005 12:08:55 pm PDT #7942 of 10002

"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I've read a good chunk of Melville, and Billy Budd is the one thing I really disliked. Typee and the other Polynesian novels are fun, but nothing like Moby Dick, which is why his audience was more than a little miffed by Moby Dick. They were expecting more fun with native girls and got a grand, overwhelming, psychedelic mass of words carried on a sea of whale blubber.

("My Kinsman, Major Molineux" is by Melville's very good friend, Nathanial Hawthorne. They'd both be flattered by the confusion.)

Amy - Jun 17, 2005 12:14:27 pm PDT #7943 of 10002

Because books.

The only Melville I liked was Bartleby the Scrivener.

t /Melville heretic

ChiKat - Jun 17, 2005 12:16:49 pm PDT #7944 of 10002

That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Standing with AmyLiz's heretic corner.

Sophia Brooks - Jun 17, 2005 1:00:21 pm PDT #7945 of 10002

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

billytea - Jun 17, 2005 2:34:48 pm PDT #7946 of 10002

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

FWIW, I've read Moby Dick too. I recall enjoying it, but couldn't say much more than that. I've also read 100 Years of Solitude, and loved it. One of my favourite books.

DavidS - Jun 17, 2005 2:46:33 pm PDT #7947 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've also read 100 Years of Solitude, and loved it. One of my favourite books.

Moi aussi, aussie.

erikaj - Jun 17, 2005 3:25:14 pm PDT #7948 of 10002

Always Anti-fascist!

I've thought about reading it, but in the end I didn't have the nerve. After the book is over, maybe.

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