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I absolutely hate, without any doubt, Moby Dick.
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10-01-2003, 02:09 PM | #182 |
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horrid
I'll tell you whats worse. IVANHOE. so boring.
Ilike classics, but ivanhoe is just...it has a good story, but the wy its written is horrid!
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10-01-2003, 03:00 PM | #184 |
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Might I suggest you try it again after some years have passed?
I love Melville. I love the way he bubbles over and exagerates everything. Is it that people think ALL books are supposed to be easy like Harry Potter? If so, I hope they will consider that the words of the current sentence are the most important ones, not the ones from later in the paragraph or the paragraphs later in the chapter. To extend that ... it's like food. If one thinks only of eating the entire piece of pie, one might lose her only opportunity to savor (savour) the morsel that is presently in her mouth. That's the trick with poetry and poetical writing such as Melville. Being forced to read anything for school tends to dissuade one from savoring the beauty before one. One must give in to pleasure to enjoy it, otherwise it is just sensation.
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10-01-2003, 03:10 PM | #185 |
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I really do not like Robert Frost's poetry. I don't know. It just sounds too slick and perfect. I want rough and jagged, I guess.
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10-02-2003, 07:18 PM | #187 |
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i read this really bad book for a book club... called....um.... oh yeah
The Enchanted Castle. i cant remember too much about it but it was so unbelievably boring it wasnt even funny.
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10-03-2003, 01:11 AM | #188 |
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yeah i think i'll try to re-read it myself, sun-star, when i can tolerate sitting and not having to be busy with other stuff at the same time.
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