I got a kick out of this…I’ve read Moby Dick, The Power Broker and all 4 volumes of the Years of Lyndon Johnson. I may never read the 5th volume but that’s because it might not ever be published!
Would you listen to ‘The whale’ on Audible, or if someone read it to you for 1/2 hour every night before bed, you know, go back to being a kid with bedtime stories. Have to admit, I’ve only ever read half of it - preferred the film (however bad the special effects were) with Spencer Tracy.
"Moby Dick" is an American classic and worth reading but Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener", is my favorite and a hoot. "To The Lighthouse" is tricky but doable and if it's the correct Woolf I am thinking about, it reminds me never to have house guests. I simply cannot get past the first few pages (trying about 7 times) of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past". But I'd just like to end with this : all the people out there who could never get past the first chapter of David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas", give it another try!
Looking forward to the monthly drop of books youre never going to read😆. The books on tape version of Moby Dick is amazing, my Dad used to play it for me to fall asleep to when I was a child insomniac.
Love this. I have to say, I never managed to get into the Power Broker, but found the first volume of the LBJ books to be absolutely riveting. Give it a try!
Moby Dick is AWESOME. True, I haven't read it, but I have read bits, and it's actually funny! I am definitely going to read Moby Dick one day. Lyndon Johnson—never.
I’ve never read Moby Dick either, haha, and never had interest in it for whatever reason. Huckleberry Finn is another I’ll probably never read.
The Brothers Karamazov is one I will one day finish reading, even though I’ve tried multiple times already haha
Bleak House: Charles Dickens. I’ve seen the play, TV productions and loved them but oh I’ve tried so hard to read this - it’s exhausting :)
Clockers: Richard Price is on my to read list. Heard an interview of his and he intrigues me.
I got a kick out of this…I’ve read Moby Dick, The Power Broker and all 4 volumes of the Years of Lyndon Johnson. I may never read the 5th volume but that’s because it might not ever be published!
Thanks Mavis. I LOVED Cloud Atlas, read it twice, and saw the film 4 or 5 times.
Would you listen to ‘The whale’ on Audible, or if someone read it to you for 1/2 hour every night before bed, you know, go back to being a kid with bedtime stories. Have to admit, I’ve only ever read half of it - preferred the film (however bad the special effects were) with Spencer Tracy.
Why would you never read Moby Dick? It’s really good. I think you’d like it. To The Lighthouse is also a good one, can be a bit challenging though.
"Moby Dick" is an American classic and worth reading but Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener", is my favorite and a hoot. "To The Lighthouse" is tricky but doable and if it's the correct Woolf I am thinking about, it reminds me never to have house guests. I simply cannot get past the first few pages (trying about 7 times) of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past". But I'd just like to end with this : all the people out there who could never get past the first chapter of David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas", give it another try!
Looking forward to the monthly drop of books youre never going to read😆. The books on tape version of Moby Dick is amazing, my Dad used to play it for me to fall asleep to when I was a child insomniac.
Love this. I have to say, I never managed to get into the Power Broker, but found the first volume of the LBJ books to be absolutely riveting. Give it a try!
Moby Dick is AWESOME. True, I haven't read it, but I have read bits, and it's actually funny! I am definitely going to read Moby Dick one day. Lyndon Johnson—never.