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:wah::wah::wah::damn:

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

I tried to read Moby-Dick, but Fun With Dick And Jane was way betters! :O:

Peasants like that make me rage :O:

I'll have to agree there; moby dick is one of the very few books I have failed to read all the way through... more than once. (sorry herman, you just got too metaphysical, man)

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It was self defence, I swear!

A Jerry Sandusky favorite?

But that's what makes it AWESOME!!! :D

I still have the ragged old copy of Moby Dick from when I read it for the first time, in high school. It's got all the color-coded highlighting that I used to keep track of all the passages I needed to refer to when I was writing my paper on it. There's hardly anything in the book that's NOT highlighted.






Yeah, I was that kid. :O:

I was never that kid until I went to college. Then I started highlighting things, and underlining things, and circling things, and writing little notes in the margins, and all that good stuff. There are a couple of my text books that I treasured too much to pollute with writing implements of any kind, though.

This is why I have a separate hard copy of some books strictly for veneration purposes. :yep:

I couldn't afford to do that... uh, cuz of the beer fund. :DL


EDIT: Oh yeah, there was also the goat we bought from the football team. :hmm2:

One can do the same with the new daleks!

I like a good metaphor, just like the next man (I have verse and meter translations of both the Iliad and the Odyssey - have prose of them too but it's not as likeable) but after so many pages I completely lost where he was at. You'd have thought Ishmael would have been too busy splicing cables (or whatever an all male crew does) to wax lyrical about the infinite grandeur and essential hubris of mortal man, for quite so many pages.
Everything started off well, but as soon as he set sail they were, well... all at sea, as it were.

Perhaps I'll try again sometime.
I don't like not finishing books for any reason; the first book I put down in disgust was called 'Go Well, Stay Well' by Tokey Jones. At the time I described it as banal and crass with little to hold the imagination, let alone the readers attention. Needless to say I did not do well in my criticism of this book, then being accused of not actually reading it sufficiently to form a genuine opinion.
So much for that school book report - I was 10 or maybe 11 years old. When questioned, the tutor admitted to not having read all of it either... just the parts we had to read out loud in class - there's a window into the soul of the tutor, if ever I saw one ....except for those rare individuals, like my classics teacher, who made everything he read come alive both in the classroom and away from it.

After seeing the original movie with Gregory Peck I just had to read the book. I got all the way through it, but man was I bored!

Of course I was ten at the time...

@ Jim: You know Mum's gonna get you for that.

Maybe she'll get you an ice cream, seeing as how you made her look all colourful and shiny. :D