Anyone ever actually read "Moby Dick?

[Ishmael]

Yup.

Ishmael

 

[Mischka]

No! You?! Really? I had twenty bucks that said you hadn't.

 

[kotori]

Yup.

Ishmael

Told ya.

 

[Mischka]

Damn.

 

[Ishmael]

Damn.

Sorry, want me to go back and edit my post?

Ishmael

 

[Lasher]

Yep, I've mentioned this before. It's one of the most godawful things ever written.

 

[TallOne]

A "wicked book" in Melville's own words.

The movie got me through high school english. But in college we had to write this big paper on it and its relation to the bible. Movie couldn't cut it there unfortunately.

 

[patient1]

I read the thing in school, it was in one hand, & the dictionary was in the other. From that aspect it was educational. Had to do an oral report on it & answer questions.

The process was so plodding & unenjoyable, I was going to miss my deadline. I had to read the last couple hundred pages as fast as I could sans dictionary. I didn't understand it from then on, just read the words until they became pages & chapters.

I did OK on the report because I knew about whaling, & I'd seen a film strip or 2 on the subject, knew the plot from the comic book & the teacher had commented on the symbolism sometime previously. Nothing like giving somebody their own opinions in your own words, is there?


I think there are only two authors worse to read-

Hawthorne.

Joyce's" Finnegan's Wake."

 

[teddybear4play]

Herm lost me after "Bartleby the Scrivener".

I liked "Bartleby." It bought me two papers.

Moby Dick, however, made me curse the day I became an English major. My professora there was a sadistic bitch who actually thought we had the time to read Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville, and take all our other classes. However, I could, if I had to, slog through The Scarlet Letter and Walden, but 600 pages about whale blubber might as well have been hell.

So I read the first thirty pages and the last thirty pages, as well as any parts of the book heavily mentioned in class lectures.

I don't intend on picking up the book ever again, and I don't feel sorry saying so.

TB4p