DWill wrote:It could have been immaturity, but our great classic, Moby Dick, no way. I fell asleep many times over that. I was especially annoyed at the parts where Melville would talk about whaling, once "proving" that whales were so numerous in the oceans as to be inexhaustible. Should I go back and give the great albino another chance? Anyone out there admire this book?
With the strong exception of Huckleberry Finn, I don't much enjoy Mark Twain. Oh, also Ernest Hemmingway is a writer whose reputation as a great writer is a mystery to me. I'm always open to reconsidering any judgment.
Will
I have to agree. I was required to read
Moby Dick in 11th grade and couldn't finish it. I just read the Cliffs Notes and aced my test - in fact, I got the highest grade in the class
I never got Hemmingway either. I only read
a Farewell to Arms, but it was so depressing and the characters were so blah, I never wanted to read anything else by him.
. I actually just enjoy his weird stories. Only a couple really scared me. They get too supernatural and far-fetched in the end for me to be scared. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was a little scary because getting lost in the woods is a more real fear. Things that are reality based scare me more than supernatural stuff.
