The only Melville I liked was Bartleby the Scrivener.
t /Melville heretic
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Amy - Jun 17, 2005 12:14:27 pm PDT #7943 of 10002
Because books.
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.
JZ - Jun 17, 2005 7:26:54 pm PDT #7949 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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.
Heh. I'm the un-bt. Greatly enjoyed 100 Years... but remember little of it other than a general lucid-dream kind of atmosphere. Moby Dick, though, is vividly lovable to me in exactly the way -t describes: I read it in high school because it was on a list of stuff we were supposed to have read by the time we graduated, picked it up dreading it, and found myself frequently weeping with laughter and wondering who the assholes were who'd covered it with Important Literature warnings and spoiled it for everyone else.
Of course, I also loved Tom Jones (and a novel by Fielding's lesser-known but apparently equally snarkful and sex-comic sister is presently near the top of my to be read list) and Tristram Shandy and have adored the bits and pieces of Ulysses I've nibbled at, so my taste is clearly antiquarian, eccentric and likely suspect in the extreme.
Betsy HP - Jun 17, 2005 7:40:00 pm PDT #7950 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Joe, that was a splendid recommendation for Moby-Dick; it made me want to try reading the book.
Polter-Cow - Jun 17, 2005 7:40:15 pm PDT #7951 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Speaking of Tristram Shandy, have you read the comic version yet? How is it?
Kathy A - Jun 17, 2005 7:43:38 pm PDT #7952 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
who the assholes were who'd covered it with Important Literature warnings and spoiled it for everyone else
This is why I wish more people would get past the Middle English and actually read Chaucer--he's hilarious!! I would be sitting in my dorm common room reading the Nun's Priest Tale and cracking up, and have non-English majors give me the "what do you find so funny in him?" look.