I'm still trucking. It's gotten a little better. He's boning Julia now, so the story is picking up a bit.
Upon finding this thread, I realized that I'm woefully lacking in the classics, so I went to the library and picked up Moby Dick. I agree with the sentiment that it's alternately entertaining and awful. The language he uses is so pretentious that I find myself sometimes wanting to exhume his corpse and kick his Mr. Smartypants ass. Question for those who've read it: Are the chapters where he describes things related to the whaling industry meant to be asides as himself, the author, or are they still supposed to be the thoughts/narrations of Ishmael? The language of those chapters seems a bit different than the chapters describing the actual voyage and whale hunts and it's bugging me. Also, the dude needs to cut down on examples. He spent almost 3 damn pages describing things in nature that are white. He's worse than GRRM in that regard.
Haven't read the book but had a friend tell me after he felt like he could sail a ship no problem haha. Said there was pages just on what things are technically called etc. Gonna guess the 19th century reader had more of a patience or even desire for technical details
I don't know why Graham Greene isn't included more often with his contemporaries like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, etc.
He played Kicking Bird in Dances With Wolves. He's probably better known as explosives expert, Edgar K.B. Montrose on the Red Green Show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene_(actor)
TC your list needs Frankenstein It still stands today as my favorite book and I read it almost annually, each time grabbing a different theme.
I just finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and it was fantastic. If they every make a modern movie adaptation of this, Zach Woods is the one and only person who should play Conseil.
fucking loved everything i read from PG Wodehouse. I have to say that even though my reading comprehension in English is sufficient to enjoy it I mightve even missed a few of the finer points
What is your first language? That's pretty impressive you read stuff in English on a higher level than most native speakers will ever try
dutch. You have to be pretty fluent in English in most college courses and obviously we all like our football so you pick up a bunch. But it still leads me to occasionally murder a word on here. Absolutely slaughtered the spelling of phenomanally (still not sure if I got it this time) yesterday on here
It's a relatively easy read. You should give it a go. If you do, make sure you read one of the more modern translations. The guy who originally translated it (Mercer, I believe) butchered it in so many ways. He cut out large chunks of the book, translated things in a way that made no sense, etc.