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Originally Posted by SGR
Edit: Per Fitzgerald, I'm not criticizing him as a writer, just that one novel, I've never read any of his other works to be clear.
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This is true of me too. I'm not, as I said, disparaging Melville's work (did he do The Sea Wolf too? Man that was a horrible story - again, only saw it on TV) just that the one book I tried to read from him was too boring. Can't get past that. Start off with a writer and be bored by their work, you're unlikely to go further, even if they are a celebrated one. I mean, I loved Les Miserables but had some serious issues with all the, to me, rather unnecessary and overblown stuff about the Napoleonic Wars.
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Well ...yeah. It's a novel about whaling - about killing whales. For their resources. Kinda hard to get that without cruelty. Unless there's a humane way to kill whales back then. Despite being outlawed now, I mean, it is a big part of history.
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I realise that. I just, for some reason, thought there was more distance, like they harpooned them from the ship or something. it's so down and dirty and visceral. Anyway I'm completely against whale hunting and any form of animal cruelty as per my post about hunting, so yeah, I knew what I was getting in to, but I didn't expect it to be so, well, raw and in your face.
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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi
Druthers sounds like it should be the name of a British butler.
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"Druthers! I say man, bring forth that novel from the chap who writes about whales. By golly, I think I'll give it another go, dont'cha know!"
"Moby Dick, sir?"
"No, Druthers: it's a family problem, and I've asked you not to draw attention to it!"