| SoldierHawk wrote: |
| BlazingGlory wrote: |
Hey now, at least it's not Catcher in the Rye or (ugh) Moby Dick. Man, it really sucks that I din't get to read great stuff until this year like A Modest Proposal (gotta love that Hannibal Swift  ) |
You know, I actually enjoyed Moby Dick. The key with that one, if you didn't like the full version, is to find a good abridged version that cuts out the 500+ pages of whaling minutiae, and sticks with just the main story. (Same with Les Miserables.) Once you read that, you may be inspired to read the full text of the original.
...But probably not.  |
I'm gonna have to disagree with you. I remember trying to read Moby Dick in 6th grade because it was worth almost 75 AR points (AR, for those of you who never had it, was the accelerated reader system, where you read a book and took a standardized computer test on it to see how well you remember trivial pieces of information). Up to this point, I had never given up on a book. I'm not talking small stuff either. I remember reading the entire LotR series in 4th grade and doing very well on the test. But I got about half way through the book and gave up. It was just so boring and disheartening that i just gave up. The same thing happened earlier this year. I tried again and could not get past page 200 this time.
Personally I just hate Melville. All he does is eat a dictionary and proceeds to regurgitate it on paper. But while Moby Dick is boring and uninspired. Billy Bud is far, far worse. That book is nothing more than a hateful man spewing evil on pages.
