Anyone ever actually read "Moby Dick?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Or did you give up when you found there was a movie?

 

[Raina]

There's a movie??





No, I've never read it.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Or did you give up when you found there was a movie?

Arggghhhhh!

What kind 'o question is this fer an old sea dog like meself.

Capt'n Ahab is me hero.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I read it in seventh grade and found Melville less exciting than Piers Anthony.

I should give it a look see again.

 

[LukkyKnight]

It's about a whale. There are Cliff notes.

 

[TallOne]

It's "about" the Bible, there are cliff notes

 

[mbb308]

It's about a whale. There are Cliff notes.

And some guy named Fishmeal, or something.

 

[kotori]

I tried, but failed. I did know a guy who plowed through it though, and he said he liked it. I think he was just proud of having done it.

I imagine it won't be long before Ishmael is in this thread.

 

[Shaft]

What a low opinion you have of us, Mister Dixon Carter Lee.










Actually, I read the Classic Comic version....

 

[mbb308]

Herm lost me after "Bartleby the Scrivener".

 

[Mischka]

I read Billy Budd. It took me a good long month to resurrect my passion for reading after that one. Never attempted to tackle the whale.

 

[JazzManJim]

I read it years ago. It was okay, but I wouldn't read it again, unless I had to.

 

[Pyper]

I read it and liked it. Back in high school, I went through a classics phase, and found most of them to be pretty good.

 

[bknight2602]

I had to read it in Junior High. Hated Melville but did like the story!

 

[eagleyez]

"Just call me Ishmael"

Melville is incredible....yep

 

[cheesysusie]

I read it. I recall liking it, much to the chagrin of my fellow classmates. I was always weird like that though. I liked all the books we read. I should have always known I'd be an English major.

 

[Tabby432]

I'm sure I check it out in sixth grade because of the title but I don't think I actually read it. I'll add it to my "in the hospital and have to ask my mother or a nun for books to read" list.

 

[eagleyez]

And some guy named Fishmeal, or something.

afterdinner coffee spew-fishmeal...priceless shit.

 

[mbb308]

afterdinner coffee spew-fishmeal...priceless shit.

I don't do monitors or keyboards.

I can replace your windows. For a fee.

 

[Mischka]

Back in high school, I went through a classics phase...

That's called Junior English.

 

[Pyper]

That's called Junior English.

It was independent of school.

 

[cheesysusie]

It was independent of school.

I feel you Pyper, though I'm still going through my Classics phase. I just can't get enough books. Words fascinate me.

 

[fgarvb1]

Oh, sure i read it as well as the old classics at one time or another. The good Capitan could learn alot from "The gambler"

 

[Guest]

I was too young to read when the 1956 version with Gregory Peck and Richard Basehart came out. So, I did watch it first and read it years later. Liked the movie version better ...

 

[badasschick]

Read Billy Budd tho!