Comments on Read Roger: Well, it's not like there's an election or financi...

I've been reading it for years. Sometimes I read i...

2008-10-14T21:32:00.000-04:00

I've been reading it for years. Sometimes I read it to my daughter. After living in Boston for three years I realy enjoy it but I'm not sure I'll finish it some day. Spanish speakers have the same problem with El Quijote.

I know, Discouraged Anonymous, the damned gold far...

2008-10-13T09:46:00.000-04:00

I know, Discouraged Anonymous, the damned gold farmers have made me taken to moderating comments, which means they won't appear until I get to my computer. Am wondering if it's worth the tradeoff.

But I don't see why you're discouraged. Only Christina evinced any dislike of Melville. My problem is not with the book but with the use of it as ammo for a social studies assignment about bill-passing.

from "discouraged anonymous, 12:50 PM": OOPS!!! I...

2008-10-12T20:49:00.000-04:00

from "discouraged anonymous, 12:50 PM": OOPS!!! I didn't understand the commenting procedure, hence the repetition.

It's discouraging to see how many "book people" (...

2008-10-12T17:45:00.000-04:00

It's discouraging to see how many "book people" (at least one assumes that's what they consider themselves to be) take pride in boasting their scorn for a magnificent novel.

It is discouraging to see such resentment of a mag...

2008-10-12T12:50:00.000-04:00

It is discouraging to see such resentment of a magnificent novel - especially among so-called (or should I say self-proclaimed?) book people?)

The cetology chapter is just there to weed out the...

2008-10-12T02:28:00.000-04:00

The cetology chapter is just there to weed out the easily discouraged. It's a great, powerful, wonderful, strange, sometimes funny, towering book.

After Bartleby the Scrivenger, I avoid Melville li...

2008-10-11T23:20:00.000-04:00

After Bartleby the Scrivenger, I avoid Melville like the plague.

But I'm rather jealous of your "state epic novel." Now I'm off to research great works by Ohioans.

You know it was not reading Moby Dick that caused ...

2008-10-11T20:47:00.000-04:00

You know it was not reading Moby Dick that caused LEonard Zelig all his problems.

Didn't you all have to do this in grade school? S...

2008-10-11T18:28:00.000-04:00

Didn't you all have to do this in grade school? Stndard social studies project - be grateful they weren't promoting a STATE INSECT!

I read it last year, and it was pretty awesome, an...

2008-10-10T17:53:00.000-04:00

I read it last year, and it was pretty awesome, and I still can't figure out what the man was doing with that chapter on Cetology, but at the end there it was like, bang bang, Melville's silver hammer came down upon my head. That man is something else.

Well, some of us have read it. I've read it three ...

2008-10-10T16:30:00.000-04:00

Well, some of us have read it. I've read it three times and love it!

The Horn Book is just a hotbed of anti-intellectua...

2008-10-10T14:27:00.000-04:00

The Horn Book is just a hotbed of anti-intellectualism, aintcha?

The Horn Book is just a hotbed of anti-intellectua...

2008-10-10T14:25:00.000-04:00

The Horn Book is just a hotbed of anti-intellectualism, aintcha?

Apparently they read an abridged version in class ...

2008-10-10T14:22:00.000-04:00

Apparently they read an abridged version in class together.

Speranzo filed the bill at the request of fifth-gr...

2008-10-10T14:19:00.000-04:00

Speranzo filed the bill at the request of fifth-grade pupils at Egremont Elementary School so they could follow the bill through the legislative process.

So the legislature is working on a bill filed by fifth graders... how many of them have read the book?