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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2013-09-07 10:45 pm
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Time crunch or no, I'm going to fit in Moby-Dick, which I'm amazed to realize I read ten years ago. During my first Vancouver rainy "season" (lasts October to March) which was appropriately gloomy. Probably also helped that the ocean was a block or two downhill.

I remember trying to read it for the first time in 2000 on a trans-Atlantic flight. It was too good. I read one or two paragraphs and said that to myself: this writing is too good to even read. And set it down for three years. Never said that to myself about another book. "How amazing" plenty of times, "so good I need to stop for a minute," but not three years.

[identity profile] grashupfer.livejournal.com 2013-09-08 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you post about it. I listened to long chunks of the second half on audio during a road trip this year. It sounds even better. Pure awesome.