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Post by Xenorama ™ on Oct 10, 2004 23:09:37 GMT -8
man, i'm almost 3/4 through this thing- it's an interesting if overlong story. i really DON'T want to know how to kill, flay, eat, squeeze or anything else they do to whales. he could have cut out half the exposition in this book and make it easier to read. still, i'm glad to have gotten this far.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Oct 11, 2004 21:09:37 GMT -8
Want to now how it ends? I have read so many 'classics' that I find to be to cumbersome in their wording. Not that I don't understand it, but the fact that some authors try to be a little too highbrow. The common reader back in the day would';t have gotten alot of the subtlty and other mumbo jumbo that experts spend all their time deciphering. Not sure waht point I was tring to make, but it is made anyway! ;D
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Oct 18, 2004 23:13:47 GMT -8
ok, there are 536 pages to this story, and at page 503 Moby Dick is finally seen. that would be like watching a two hour movie and he shows up in the last ten effing minutes. if that. this is a classic? pleh. but i'm gonna finish the thing.
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Post by Igadevil on Nov 5, 2004 20:50:51 GMT -8
Haven't read it, but from my experience the "Classics" are either vastly overrated or completely deserving of the title.
I will say that I can't think of that book know without thinking about the TV movie with Captain Picard- "From the heart of Hell, I stabbeth thee!"
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Nov 5, 2004 22:03:56 GMT -8
Khan says that in STII, "from hell's heart, I stab at thee..." it's a good quote. while the story was kind of disappointing to me, i've talked a bit about it to other people and talking about it is more fun, so i am glad i've read it. i'm reading "Pride and Predjudice" right now, it's easier to read.
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Post by The Lost Spider on Jul 30, 2005 9:36:43 GMT -8
I tried to read MOBY DICK roughly 5 times in my lifetime and I NEVER got through it!!!!
I just find it to dull. When I'm reading a boring story (and this has happened through most of High School) I tend to zone out and start daydreaming. Whether I'm thinking about the girl sitting next to me in English class or fantasying that I'm fighting alongside Godzilla against giant monsters from space.
It's not that I have a short attention span, it's just that something needs to hold my interest. And Moby Dick never could.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jul 30, 2005 15:05:33 GMT -8
did you get to the part where they see the GIANT SQUID? i thought that might interest you...
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Post by The Lost Spider on Jul 30, 2005 18:09:52 GMT -8
^ you bet!! ;D There was a whole chapter devoted to the men watching the Squid out at sea. I believe it was chapter 59. I scanned to it when I was losing interest in the earlier chapters. It's too bad that Squid didin't go a few rounds with ol' Moby. It would have made the story more interesting.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jul 30, 2005 20:17:55 GMT -8
yeah, that was interesting. the cartoon Moby Dick took on a few octopi and squid during his run.
David
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Post by The Lost Spider on Jul 30, 2005 22:14:37 GMT -8
Yeah. I remember those. And Kong took on a giant octopus in an episode of his old 60's cartoon as well.
Even Godzilla battled a giant octopus AND a giant squid in his late 70's Hanna Barbera cartoon.
Face it. Giant cephalopods ROCK!! And make great monster opponents. ;D ;D
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