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[fajrdrako]

From March 19, 2009: What’s the worst 'best' book you’ve ever read — the one everyone says is so great, but you can’t figure out why?

Easy: Moby Dick. I'd heard great quotes from it on X-Files and Star Trek and it sounded brilliant. So only a few years ago I sat down and read it cover to cover, and haven't been so bored (or frustrated) by a novel since Ivanhoe. But I understand why some people might like Ivanhoe, or, rather, might have done so in the 19th century. Moby Dick? I just didn't get it.

It quotes well, though. Ignorance is the parent of fear.

It was a sharp, cold Christmas.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I did love the bit in the Jasper Fforde books where they are all in enforced therapy sessions

Fforde is good at getting to the heart of things.

Lord of the Flies is problematic; I liked it at the time, but I think now I'd have trouble with all the religious metaphors.