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Old 07-03-2008, 04:01 PM   #531 (permalink)
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First time?
Yup...I'm not really an avid reader so there are plenty of classics I haven't managed to read yet.
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Old 07-03-2008, 04:11 PM   #532 (permalink)
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It's a great read, a try to get to it once every couple years. Just read it last summer.
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Old 07-03-2008, 04:15 PM   #533 (permalink)
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I heard it's got loads of homoerotic subtext...
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Old 07-03-2008, 06:55 PM   #534 (permalink)
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'If his chest had been a cannon he would have shot his heart upon it...' = one of three literary quotes in my arsenal
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Old 07-03-2008, 07:53 PM   #535 (permalink)
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Just started Moby Dick - Herman Melville...yay!
I was going to read this a few years back, but then my school librarian told me not to because I'd just be bored by it!

Right now it's Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, which is absolutely spectacular. Definitely deserves all the praise it's been getting! It's also encouraged me to go re-read The Great Gatsby, which I'll pick up when I'm done.
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Old 07-03-2008, 09:25 PM   #536 (permalink)
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Melville isn't for those who don't like reading I'd think. I've never read Moby but I read two of his other works and the writing is archaic. Beautiful but arcane to be sure.

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Old 07-07-2008, 12:14 PM   #537 (permalink)
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some dreck i read now... Frederick Forsyth's The Devil's Alternative

best book i read this year... Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory
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Old 07-07-2008, 12:55 PM   #538 (permalink)
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I was going to read this a few years back, but then my school librarian told me not to because I'd just be bored by it!

Right now it's Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, which is absolutely spectacular. Definitely deserves all the praise it's been getting! It's also encouraged me to go re-read The Great Gatsby, which I'll pick up when I'm done.
Your school librarian should be fired. Also she is either not very smart or a liar. It's impossible to be bored by Moby ****, not like it fine, but it's anything but boring.

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Melville isn't for those who don't like reading I'd think. I've never read Moby but I read two of his other works and the writing is archaic. Beautiful but arcane to be sure.

Very valid criticism.
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What's that about? And is it worth reading?

I'm currently reading Lies, Inc.
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