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Now I am ****ed ...
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:23:06 -0500, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:58:09 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: 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? ? 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. My copy of Anna Karenina runs about 700 pages. You probably shouldn't read Tolstoy. As a statement I read onetime about Russian y would never read another one. What is it about Russian novels that when you get to liking a character they kill them off. Okay to kill a few but all of them? To depressing. Don't read the winds of war ;-) I very much enjoyed that series, wish it'd been longer. |
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Now I am ****ed ...
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:26:52 -0500, John H
wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:23:06 -0500, wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:58:09 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: As a statement I read onetime about Russian y would never read another one. What is it about Russian novels that when you get to liking a character they kill them off. Okay to kill a few but all of them? To depressing. Don't read the winds of war ;-) I very much enjoyed that series, wish it'd been longer. But you have to admit spoiler alert the Nazis get a lot of people you were just starting to like. I read "winds" and "Remembrance" during a freezing trip to Chicago where taking a coat just tricks you into thinking you can go outside. If there were others I missed them. |
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Now I am ****ed ...
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:49:38 -0500, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:26:52 -0500, John H wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:23:06 -0500, wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:58:09 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: As a statement I read onetime about Russian y would never read another one. What is it about Russian novels that when you get to liking a character they kill them off. Okay to kill a few but all of them? To depressing. Don't read the winds of war ;-) I very much enjoyed that series, wish it'd been longer. But you have to admit spoiler alert the Nazis get a lot of people you were just starting to like. I read "winds" and "Remembrance" during a freezing trip to Chicago where taking a coat just tricks you into thinking you can go outside. If there were others I missed them. Nope, just those two. It's a shame he didn't work through the Korean and Vietnam wars. Good author (IMHO), although I'm sure Krause would say he's trash. |
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