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yes...it happens to me a lot  Vanity Fair is my problem book...it is good and all it just takes so long to get through what with all the convoluted sentences and I tend to buy/ find other books to read at the same time and then lose my place in VF (something which only happens to that book strangely enough!) and so I have to start over...
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problem books:
I think I've mentioned most of these here before, but these remain unfinished from more than one try (and probly always will)..
Moby Dick, or The Whale
Don Quixote (at least I get further with this each try)
Remembrance of Things Past (or, In Search of Lost Time)
Gravity's Rainbow
and I think there's a couple more, which I finally stored away.
..oh, and I haven't given up just yet on Joyce's Ulysses.
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The writing of Lewis Carroll is not just story telling. It's the cleverest and most amusing juggling with language and mind. It's not particulary for children, though clever children above the age of 8 who love words are capable to grab the fun.
I read it when I was 14 and Alice has been a favorite all my life.
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I'm really glad you enjoyed it. I think the cartoon
spoiled it for me, tho' I suppose I could give it a try.
Bex thinks so too.
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here's a nice e-book edition of AiW that doesn't require any special reader thingy: Alice
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problem books:......
Moby Dick, or The Whale.......
I started to read this, but gave up on it. I couldn't get over the fact they they were harpooning whales. My sympathy is always with the whale.
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Y'all shouldn't dismiss Melville out of hand based on his later work. Read Typee and Omoo (I forget which is first). They are quite readable.
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here's a nice e-book edition of AiW that doesn't require any special reader thingy: Alice I've saved this, may try it out.
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Y'all shouldn't dismiss Melville out of hand based on his later work. Read Typee and Omoo (I forget which is first). They are quite readable. It was required reading for my class. I did not think it would ever end. I've read the others as well, and don't dismiss Melville at all. I just could not take all the whale blubber usage and other materiels of that nature. I assigned Melville as a teacher, but not Moby.
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I don't remember any whale blubber in Typee or Omoo. They're about his jumping ship on some South Pacific island and being captured and kept as a pet white man by a cannibal tribe.
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