On 1/21/2018 1:36 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 1/21/18 1:11 PM, wrote:
On 21 Jan 2018 16:32:18 GMT, Keyser Soze wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 09:39:30 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


And what could be more important than football?Â* ?


It's ok if you'd rather read Moby Dick for the 18th time instead. Most
of us got it the first time around.

Another of your weird personality quirks.Â* If you don't like
something,
nobody should, huh?

Moby Dick? Jesus what a boring ****ing book. Melville could have
trimmed off about 400 pages and had a gripping novel.
I got it right away. Life on a whaling ship was miserable. We didn't
need to share that misery for almost 800 pages to read the story.
Beside that, if you are already bored at sea, the last thing I want to
read is a book about being bored at sea. I thought the GM 3&2 book was
more interesting.Â* ;-)


Ahhh...you thought the book was about life aboard a whaling ship, but
that
is only the back page story, as it were. I’m not surprised you actually
didn’t get it.

No it was the "back 400 pages", unless you were just speed reading
over that like you skim the notes you respond to here.
Like I said at 250-300 pages it would have been a gripping story. The
man needed an editor.


My copy of Anna Karenina runs about 700 pages. You probably shouldn't
read Tolstoy.


I tried reading "War and Peace" as a young teenager under the strong
"recommendation" of my mother who encouraged reading. She didn't care
what I read over the summer school vacations ... as long as I read. I
gave up on finishing "War and Peace". Too high brow and philosophical
for a 14 year old.

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:01:14 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:



I tried reading "War and Peace" as a young teenager under the strong
"recommendation" of my mother who encouraged reading. She didn't care
what I read over the summer school vacations ... as long as I read. I
gave up on finishing "War and Peace". Too high brow and philosophical
for a 14 year old.



I was pretty heavy on WWII non-fiction in those days. My parents were
the same way. I just needed to be reading something. That was where my
father's tastes leaned so I got his hand me down books at first and
then started going to the library when I got to high school. I didn't
really have one close until then. Once I was in town every day, I lied
about my address and got a DC library card. ( I was a mile over the
line in PG County by then)