Moby Dick by Herman Melville
This would be the reason I haven't posted any finished books lately. I am about 1/3 of the way through it. Why, yes, it is the complete unabridged version. 😬 It's one of those that has been lingering on my Kindle for ages. Occasionally I get it in my head that I should read a classic that I somehow got through school without reading.
When I told my friend, the other Kathleen, what I was reading, she said her middle-school grandson had to read it recently for school. Good God, surely they let kids read the abridged version! Unabridged is something like 800+ pages.
I've had a library book that I had on reserve become available, so I will have to begin it soon.
I may possibly read one chapter a day from Moby Dick, and then read my other challenge books the rest of the day, thus taking a long-way-about making my way through this one.
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Quite ambitious! Are you liking it so far?
ReplyDeleteI like parts of it, and then parts of it are just so verbose that I drown (pardon the pun) in the prose. That's why I thought maybe I should take it in smaller bites (pardon the pun). I need to find a way to get through it so my entire challenge isn't sunk (pardon the pun). :)
DeleteFile this under strange, but I can't even think of that book without a song going through my head. There is a group called Dread Zeppelin. They mixreggae style music, with Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley. They do a version of Moby Dick on their album Un-Led-Ed where their lead singer (named Toutelivis) reads passages from the book. I highly recommend you finding it on YouTube:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/UMuhwfMzELQ?si=v86YFZklMn78TLkk
FYI, I am a strange bird...
Well, you gave me a good laugh there at the end where he says, "I've read this damn book 22 times. Charlie. and I still don't understand a thing." I can relate! ;)
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