STP Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 YEah, that book figured prominently in Heathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 a fine story for sure - the movie w/ gregory peck was tits! Â .....and Orson Wells. Gotta rent that one soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 a fine story for sure - the movie w/ gregory peck was tits! Â .....and Orson Wells. Gotta rent that one soon. Â Netflix, baby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_forester Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 esquimaux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Moby Dick - a great book. I put lots of pencil notes in that one. Came away with the impression that folks are not quite as literate as they used to be back then. Â I never read Moby Dick in high school or college, and remember all my class mates who read it, hated it, and bitched about it, so I never tried it. I finally picked it up two years ago, and absolutely LOVED it. Melville is a genius, and packs that novel with so much dense symbolism and references it is unbelievable. I especially enjoyed his sense of humor. It's probably my favorite classic - right up there with the Iliad and Heart of Darkness. In college, I actually took a Summer course on Melville. I am a dork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 In college, I actually took a Summer course on Melville. I am a dork. Â It's ok, as a grad student in computer science, I took undergrad courses in Organic Chemistry and intensive russian "for fun". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I just learned how to read. I'm really enjoying the Richard Scary books now. That guy was a subtle genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archenemy Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 In college, I actually took a Summer course on Melville. I am a dork. Â It's ok, as a grad student in computer science, I took undergrad courses in Organic Chemistry and intensive russian "for fun". I don't feel so bad now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaskadskyjKozak Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 I just learned how to read. I'm really enjoying the Richard Scary books now. That guy was a subtle genius. Â Try Theodore Geisel's works. Much more profound. Â Especially the Lorax and Yertle the Turtle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 god hunt us all, if we do not hunt moby dick to his death! Â thou hast no need to fear starbuck, let ahab beware ahab! Â call me ishmael motherfucker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I don't know...Scary's selection of animals for the characters give a keen insight to the psyche of modern man. What he was doing there won't be truly advanced and perhaps in 20-30 years people can start to begin to take baby steps in that dialog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal_Con Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I always liked that he made pigs butchers. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 yeah, and his use of beavers as builders symbolizing their role in the proliferation of humans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 My fav. Scarry character is Lowly Worm. Lowly is everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lI1|1! Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 what you may not know is melville had a view of mt greylock (the tallest mountain in massachusetts) from the porch of his home, arrowhead. the view of mt greylock covered in snow in winter is said to have reminded melville of a great white whale, and thusly partly inspired him to write the now famous tale. i couldn't find a picture in google image search but i've seen it with my own eyes and yeah it's kinda cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Ah24BkyUcZs&b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
111 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 can we have an ASS stamp/emoticon for CC? I can think of a few people who would get that right off the bat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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whirlwind Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 i have kind of a short attention span but one thing i like to do is like wikipedia surfing where i take a topic i know a little about but most of what i know is wrong so i look it up in wikipedia and set myself straight and then i click the crossreferences and stumble upon lots of interesting stuff, mostly history kind of things. Â I grew up with a set of encyclopedias, a dictionary, and about fifty years worth of National Geographics on the bookshelves next to my bed, and developed a similar habit. Still prefer the hard-copy format as I'm more likely to stumble over something while flipping through pages than in a directed search. Â me too, i lived with my grandparents they had alot of history stuff, i use to love flipping through the national geographics. and seeing diferent animails and what not in encylopidias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whirlwind Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 niebelungenleid - makes 300 seem like a disney flick  should read the "gates of fire" its a good book about the same envent, told from the point of view of a spartain slave. 4x the story the movie tells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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