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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]

Dickens was not paid by the word, I wish he had been, that way there might have been even more of them to love.

Yes - I wish!

the Pilgrim Edition of his letters, costs anything upto £100 a volume. I save up or buy them shop-soiled and have only 4 more volumes to find.

Oooh, lucky! I've never even seen those. How wonderful.