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Now I am ****ed ...
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:01:13 -0500, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:49:46 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 1/21/2018 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? ? 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. 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. ;-) 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. But, but Greg ... you are supposed to savor the prose and style heavily influenced by Shakespeare and enjoy reciting the goofy poems out loud, preferably in front of a mirror. Other than that, it's just a weird, sorta religious story. Might have been paid by the word. A friend of my parents wrote western paperback novels during WW2. He was a navy hardhat diver. He said the reason for all the land and environment descriptions was he had to fill 128 pages and got paid by the word. It is just that those guys didn't have editors. A writer thinks every word they write is manna from heaven. That's true for even misguided, poor writers such as the one we have right here. |
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