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Fiction

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts) Wed Feb 12, 2014, 11:03 PM Feb 2014

Am reading Moby Dick [View all]

I am surprised that I seem to have missed this one. But I am glad. I would not have appreciated it 50 years ago, smile. Amazing imagination. Only 200 pages in and still no sighting of the whale. But the descriptions of people and life on a whaler are fascinating.

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Am reading Moby Dick [View all] oldandhappy Feb 2014 OP

That's wonderful! I think there's never a bad time to look into a classic like Moby Dick. scarletwoman Feb 2014 #1

Do it! oldandhappy Feb 2014 #5

maintaining my position as the only English Major in America who has not read it yellowdogintexas Aug 2014 #14

Oh well, since I am likely the only 60s hippie in America who has not read Tolkien, scarletwoman Aug 2014 #15

Obsession and destruction packman Feb 2014 #2

Thanks for the movie mention. Will do. oldandhappy Feb 2014 #4

Truly America's greatest book. ChazInAz Feb 2014 #3

Post a video! oldandhappy Feb 2014 #6

Cool. I keep on thinking I should read it. SheilaT Feb 2014 #7

What I like about classics is - packman Feb 2014 #8

Trivia trekkie Fairgo Mar 2014 #12

I have also missed that one. Curmudgeoness Feb 2014 #9

It is an amazing book TuxedoKat Feb 2014 #10

Just finished it on the train this evening Fairgo Mar 2014 #11

I read that one in high school for a class - TBF Mar 2014 #13

I have the paperback at home (and the Kindle version, IIRC) - closeupready Sep 2014 #16

Put "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad on your list next. n/t FSogol Sep 2014 #17

Thanks, will do. oldandhappy Sep 2014 #18

Mom read Moby Dick when she was in her 70s. She said that it was something she had always japple Sep 2014 #19

Ahab's Wife OxQQme Sep 2014 #20

Thanks! Appreciate the suggestion. oldandhappy Sep 2014 #21

A few years ago I read The Grapes of Wrath jeffrey_pdx Oct 2014 #22