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What are you currently reading?
jimbunny:
I'm going on vacation, bringing a bunch of books along. Basically, a lot of finishing up things I've started, or have been lying around.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
W.S. Merwin, Travels
Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Novels
Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
Aurjay:
Just Finished Moby Dick. It took me forever to read that book. Not that I didn't like it, but it was filled with absolutely everything I'd want to know about Whales, Whale Hunting, Whale Ships and so forth. I was expecting more of a Old Man and the Sea type book I guess.
So now for some light fare im reading Masterpieces of Mystery selected by Ellery Queen. By far my favorite collection of short stories.
If I ever work up the nerve again I will try and continue reading Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1890 Beautiful poetry that I just can't seem to get into.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: Aurjay on 20 Dec 2008, 16:42 ---Moby Dick
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I'm still reading this. It's the only book I've had time to read in the last 4 months.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: Aurjay on 20 Dec 2008, 16:42 ---Just Finished Moby Dick. It took me forever to read that book. Not that I didn't like it, but it was filled with absolutely everything I'd want to know about Whales, Whale Hunting, Whale Ships and so forth. I was expecting more of a Old Man and the Sea type book I guess.
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Man, Melville and Hemingway are as different as can be. The Old Man and the Sea is waaaay too simplistic in plot and style to be anything Melville would have considered writing. Personally I think Moby Dick is one of the greatest things ever written in any language but that's just me.
My reading list has, thankfully, seriously decreased now that I'm on vacation from school. I'm reading right now:
2666 by Roberto Bolano
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
And that's it! It's a nice change of pace.
Aurjay:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 21 Dec 2008, 09:22 ---
--- Quote from: Aurjay on 20 Dec 2008, 16:42 ---Just Finished Moby Dick. It took me forever to read that book. Not that I didn't like it, but it was filled with absolutely everything I'd want to know about Whales, Whale Hunting, Whale Ships and so forth. I was expecting more of a Old Man and the Sea type book I guess.
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Man, Melville and Hemingway are as different as can be. The Old Man and the Sea is waaaay too simplistic in plot and style to be anything Melville would have considered writing. Personally I think Moby Dick is one of the greatest things ever written in any language but that's just me.
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I agree with you on difference in style and simplicity. What I meant though about Old Man and the Sea is that the whole book was about him catching the fish while as Moby Dick he doesnt even see the whale till almost 500 pages into it. Just wasn't expecting to learn everything there was to learn about whaling. Again not to say I didn't enjoy it but seriously was not what I was expecting.
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