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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (46002)7/18/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Nope- sorry- I think greatness depends on the perfection of your novel, not breadth - although I think Austen has the depth and breadth. The setting does not limit the depth of Austen's insight into people- which I think is very great indeed. I cannot think of any other writer with the same incredible eye for nuance in characters. Comparing moby Dick to Persuasion- is to compare a small perfect Meissen miniature to a great big Wedgewood Urn. Bigness does not greatness make (IMO). And universality is impossible. I don't know what you mean by universality- almost all the women of my acquaintance dislike Moby Dick- it is a man's book I think. I think very few books can be universal between the sexes since women and men are so very different.

So in that you do not enjoy reading Moby Dick I find it hard to see how you could rate it so highly. Technically? Subject matter (that admittedly doesn't appeal to you)? Talk about a puzzlement.
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