[Taliesan]

Of course, I also loved Doctor Zhivago, Moby Dick, The Closing of the American Mind, and both Eco's, and I love Jane Austen. What do I know?

[Taliesan]

Oh, I know one. I cannot make it past page 1 of anything Faulkner. Can anybody help me out?

[beckett]

Moby Dick would certainly not make it onto the "most unread" list of anybody I know. The poster who named it must have extremely idiosyncratic literary taste. The book is not included in the list that heads the thread, by the way.

How anyone can fault Melville's prose and plot in that magnificent masterpiece is a mystery to me.