I am reading Moby Dick and am in love with Herman Melville. If I had another son, I'd name him Herman Melville Plummer, which is a lot of m's. Every paragraph about water and the need to be on it is enthralling.
This is why I'm seventy, so I could be old enough, wise enough, grateful enough to read Moby Dick with such enormous pleasure.
Melville is laugh-out-loud funny. I wasn't expecting funny. I was expecting laborious, as if I had to read it for some American Novels class by next Tuesday.
I bought a new copy having thrown out the college copy.
And the Kindle I bought last month has disappeared.
I couldn't read Moby Dick on a Kindle anyway. I have to freakout with my pen in the margins.
But I wanted to read Roger Rosenblatt's book on aging on the Kindle.
My bucket list is a booklist.
Proust isn't on it. Unless you give me a good reason.
Moby Dick is one of my favorite books. I recently re-read one of the early chapters where the narrator talks about he and Quequeeg(sp) were like a married couple. I laughed out loud throughout that whole section. Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteYou follow the same sentiments as Germaine Greer see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/08/germaine-greer-proust
ReplyDeleteI hope that Martine Leavitt's new book My Book of Life by Angel is on that list. Have you read Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance?
Call me Ishmael:
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Moby Dick. Have, for years. My kids roll their eyes. Yes, they have been exposed. My reading, and an audio CD, and my reading, and an audio Cd... - It's so worthy, I have repeated their exposure for many a year.
What a funny novel: not ha ha, but humorous. Just a great, great read!
(There's my exclamation.)
Have I missed you Bucket/Book list?
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It's a truly fabulous book. I re-read parts of it when I was on that Baltic Cruise thing a few years ago. Loved it. Also, the name "Ann Cannon" has a lot of "n's." Which is awesome.
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