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Old 09-21-2009, 03:24 AM   #31
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Ironically I enjoyed "Turn of the Screw."
I'm stuck half-way through it, wondering whether to struggle on (and it's only short).

I agree with Gideon's assessment of Henry James - though TotS is the only one of his I've read; even if I finish it, I won't be going out of my way to read any more.
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Old 09-21-2009, 03:29 AM   #32
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What's with all the Moby Dick hate?
Padding. Without the excess baggage, it would be a great Mobybook. I love the characters and the dialogue.

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I guess I could vouch Ulysses is an over hyped classic masterpiece, or maybe I'm just not intelligent enough to absorb the book.
I suppose that makes two of us.
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Old 09-21-2009, 04:56 AM   #33
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I finished it, but didn't like it.
Re: A Tale of Two Cites.... I can re-read this book every other year and never tire of it! I guess that's what makes horse racing.

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However this one I can easily agree with you. I couldn't get past the 50th page. I may be the last person alive to have not read Tolkin! (Nor bothered to see the movies!)

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Old 09-21-2009, 05:01 AM   #34
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However this one I can easily agree with you. I couldn't get past the 50th page. I may be the last person alive to have not read Tolkin! (Nor bothered to see the movies!)

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Put me in that short list, too. Tried 40 years ago & just couldn't get into it, couldn't now with the movie, either. (although I enjoy fantasy stories)
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Old 09-21-2009, 05:52 AM   #35
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I only got about one tenth of Ulysses before I gave up. Joyce obviously has an immense storehouse of fascinating and diverse information within his cranium, but the book reads as if it were written under the influence of LSD. It was interesting for a while, but I got tired of wondering where it was all going.

Yeah I'm there with "The Sound and The Fury" by Faulkner -- I've only made it about half-way through...it does seem like there is something there, but man!
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I liked Tom Sawyer, but you're right about Huckleberry Finn being worlds better; perhaps part because it is still relevant. Despite the frequent use of that word, or maybe even because of it, Twain was able to deliver a powerful sermon on race without being "preachy." The gradual humanization of Jim from his first introduction as "Misses Watson's" property to "my friend" was flawless.
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I love Classics. Moby Dick's one of my all time favorites.

I will probably load a lot of enmity on my humble self, but I just can't stomach Jane Austen on the whole and Pride and Prejudice more specifically. It's just so hard to get into and so dry ...
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Old 09-21-2009, 07:06 AM   #39
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Put me in that short list, too. Tried 40 years ago & just couldn't get into it, couldn't now with the movie, either. (although I enjoy fantasy stories)
I find that while Tolkiens world is amazing, intricate and fascinating, his actual writing is pedestrian at best.
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War and Peace ... tried to read the dang thing eleventy times I think, and after awhile I just throw my hands up in disgust and start to read something else.
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Old 09-21-2009, 07:21 AM   #41
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...but I loved that book.
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What's with all the Moby Dick hate? I was loving it a lot until I stumbled upon some Space Opera fiction.
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I love Classics. Moby Dick's one of my all time favorites.
Do you guys love all of Moby Dick - including the weird chapters?

I can see how there is a decent story in there (underneath all the blubber ); but I've always had a theory that MD fans skip the boring bits - am I wrong? Or do you enjoy the discursive passages?
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You write a book about the whaling industry and try to make it interesting then!
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War and Peace ... tried to read the dang thing eleventy times I think, and after awhile I just throw my hands up in disgust and start to read something else.
I read War and Peace at a time I was stranded in Germany with nothing else to read, and that's the only reason I managed to finish it: I had no choice I managed to do it by skipping all the boring parts about politics and war in general and Napoleon in particular (I think - it's been a while) and reading only the romance parts, which I enjoyed a lot. They are quite clearly separated, it was surprisingly easy to do. May not be very practical in e-book form though.
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Do you guys love all of Moby Dick - including the weird chapters?

I can see how there is a decent story in there (underneath all the blubber ); but I've always had a theory that MD fans skip the boring bits - am I wrong? Or do you enjoy the discursive passages?
I love the STYLE of it. Maybe that's why I have no problem with "Ulysses" either. If the writing style is good, I could avidly read a laundry list!
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War and Peace ... tried to read the dang thing eleventy times I think, and after awhile I just throw my hands up in disgust and start to read something else.
One of the problems people commonly find with W&P is the huge number of characters, many of whom have very similar names. My printed version of W&P has its own bookmark, with all the main "family trees" printed on it. That's a big help.
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