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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (46009)	7/18/1999 9:44:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

So in that you do not enjoy reading Moby Dick I find it hard to see how you could rate it so highly. Perhaps because I am modest enough (don't laugh, please!) to assume that the fault may lie in me, not in Melville. Actually, I was introduced to Moby Dick by a young female high school teacher, her first year out. She was crazy about the novel -- and unable to communicate her unmeasured admiration for it to anyone in the class, poor girl. I have sometimes thought that her inept enthusiasm is what ruined the book for me. That, and Melville's awkward prose, which I was never able to get used to. I think there are a lot of writers who can appeal to both sexes equally. That is especially true of poets, IMO. Joan