I finally got around to reading Moby Dick, and now that I have finished it, I can authoritatively say: "What's the big deal?" I appreciate the intricate prose, and I totally get that much of it is symbolic, but is it really worthy of its reputation as one of the all-time classics? I vote "no." If I want to read a novel just for the poetry of the words, I'll take All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren any day.
I am now about halfway through The Gunslinger, book one of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. I am enjoying it, despite a few qualms... but I'll withhold judgment until the end. I'm sure I'll end up reading the rest of The Dark Tower before AMoL finally arrives.
And since I always like to have at least one nonfiction iron in the fire (not to mention the fact that my wife and I are expecting our first child around Halloween), I am also finishing up Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, which is awesome. Seriously.
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I finally got around to reading Moby Dick, and now that I have finished it, I can authoritatively say: "What's the big deal?" I appreciate the intricate prose, and I totally get that much of it is symbolic, but is it really worthy of its reputation as one of the all-time classics? I vote "no." If I want to read a novel just for the poetry of the words, I'll take All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren any day.
I am now about halfway through The Gunslinger, book one of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. I am enjoying it, despite a few qualms... but I'll withhold judgment until the end. I'm sure I'll end up reading the rest of The Dark Tower before AMoL finally arrives.
And since I always like to have at least one nonfiction iron in the fire (not to mention the fact that my wife and I are expecting our first child around Halloween), I am also finishing up Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, which is awesome. Seriously.