Wut?

[lostakasha]

Food Network Challenge spoiled me on the end of Moby Dick.

Let me be clear: I hated, loathed, despised, abominated and abhorred Moby Dick and never bothered to finish it. I'd already read The Old Man and the Sea and didn't give a flying fuck about men, aging, obsession, machismo and/or fish

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[sinkwriter]

How is possible you never had to finish reading that book?? I had to read the damn thing TWICE (once during high school and once during college). I know, I know, there's all sorts of fascinating symbolism, blah blah, but... it was boring as hell to me. The only reason I kept the damn thing was to remind me how much my stupid college made me spend on buying the f***ing book for that class. It was over $50. For one stupid, stupid book. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I kept it after all, after my last apartment-purge. I won't know for sure until I move back out on my own and get the chance to haul my books out of storage.

What on earth were they talking about Moby Dick for, on the Food Network? Was it a fish challenge? *shakes head, laughing* I'm sorry they ruined the ending for you. Did that information make you want to go back and finish it, to see how well (or not) Melville presented it?

*shakes fist for you* BARROWWWWMANNNN!

(Heee.)

[lostakasha]

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$50 bucks? Holy hell!!! That's like $150 bucks today. What thieves. I heartily disapprove.

I despise "boy lit," really -- all those classic adventures written by men for boys. It's the age-old 'resonance' issue, I guess. Kinda like math class. Honest to goddess, if my 5th grade math teacher had asked pertinent questions, like "If John and Yoko board a train leaving Sacramento at 6:15 and Paul and Linda board a train leaving Boise at 7:30, how long will it take Ringo to get George out of the ashram?" I'd have paid attention.

Um.

What?

Hi! ♥

ETA: It was a Challenge withe sugar. Contestants had to build sculptures representing the themes in Moby Dick, Treasure Island, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

ETA: And I just cannot tolerate Hemingway. I get his influence on American lit, really I do, but he's got no depth. Yeah, rain means somebody dies. YAWN.

[damnskippytoo]

*feels embarrassed for liking Old Man and the Sea* I never *had* to read Moby Dick so I'm forever grateful. Not that I didn't try. I picked it up once and got through a few pages before I wanted to take a spork to my eyes and never tried again.