To: SonOfDarkSkies
Moby Dick is unreadable.
Find me somebody that claims they’ve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and I’ll show you a liar.
7 posted on
01/07/2011 9:16:54 PM PST by
Artemis Webb
(What, if not a bagel and coffee, confirms the existence of a just and loving God?)
To: Artemis Webb
Moby Dick is unreadable. Find me somebody that claims theyve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and Ill show you a liar. I've read it in its entirety twice. Great book.
9 posted on
01/07/2011 9:28:12 PM PST by
Prokopton
To: Artemis Webb
Moby Dick is unreadable. Find me somebody that claims theyve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and Ill show you a liar.lol...I haven't studied Mody Dick in so many years that I had forgotten how the original work stirred up such passions.
You have obviously tried to read it...and walked away angry. Can you remind us of why it was so unreadable?
To: Artemis Webb
I’ve read it and enjoyed it. I occasionally like to read something in that old style of writing in which the author took the time to say what he intended instead of pushing on to the next explosion.
12 posted on
01/07/2011 9:42:10 PM PST by
tickmeister
(tickmeister)
To: Artemis Webb
I’ll admit I never could get through Moby Dick. And I really loved to read in my youth. Just plain painful. I never finished the comic book version either and hate the movie with Gregory Peck. Never watched all of it either.
16 posted on
01/07/2011 10:27:32 PM PST by
packrat35
(America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
To: Artemis Webb
“Moby Dick is unreadable.”
Preach it, brother.
17 posted on
01/07/2011 10:36:34 PM PST by
Blue Ink
To: Artemis Webb
Moby Dick is unreadable. Find me somebody that claims theyve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and Ill show you a liar.
I have. Are you really calling me a liar?
To: Artemis Webb
I have read Moby Dick unabridged, understood every word, loved the writing throughout, and consider it one of the finest reads in my long lifetime of reading.
Neither Melville nor Hawthorne were, in my opinion and the opinion of many others, as quintessentially American as Twain was, hence his place of honor.
29 posted on
01/07/2011 11:33:00 PM PST by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: Artemis Webb
I’ve got the audio book, and it’s torture.
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