http://oldenglishrose.dmi.me.uk/2012/02/03/january-summary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=january-summary You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me – C. S. Lewis Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:06:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://oldenglishrose.dmi.me.uk/2012/02/03/january-summary/#comment-3105 oldenglishrose Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:48:49 +0000 http://oldenglishrose.dmi.me.uk/?p=3051#comment-3105 It's strange because I keep trying to excuse things in the book as being 'of it's time' when I know that it really wasn't. I'm sort of opposite to you in that I find the thought of all those Victorians being left as cold by the book as I currently am strangely comforting as I continue to wade through it. Melville's style is so unique and hence, I guess, so alienating to so many readers, that he was always going to have niche appeal. It’s strange because I keep trying to excuse things in the book as being ‘of it’s time’ when I know that it really wasn’t. I’m sort of opposite to you in that I find the thought of all those Victorians being left as cold by the book as I currently am strangely comforting as I continue to wade through it. Melville’s style is so unique and hence, I guess, so alienating to so many readers, that he was always going to have niche appeal.

]]> http://oldenglishrose.dmi.me.uk/2012/02/03/january-summary/#comment-3101 Shelley Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:36:26 +0000 http://oldenglishrose.dmi.me.uk/?p=3051#comment-3101 Bravo to you for braving Moby Dick! As a writer, my heart breaks to remember how Melville went to his grave thinking he was a failure. To me, for us to read the book now somehow assuages his pain. Bravo to you for braving Moby Dick! As a writer, my heart breaks to remember how Melville went to his grave thinking he was a failure. To me, for us to read the book now somehow assuages his pain.

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