Frank and Ernest by Thaves for August 18, 2022

If that were true, I would never get to read any Christie books.

I’ll take Melville over Christie any day.

My wife and I frequent our local branch library often. Once my wife asked me to pick up a DVD of El Cid. The senior librarian who knew us both from our kids at the same school chuckled at me and said “I know why you want that one: Sophia Loren.” I hadn’t known she was in it and I didn’t like the movie. My wife watched it alone. I was slightly disturbed that the librarian was judging me by “my” choice which wasn’t even mine.

So is Melville like main meal and Christie like dessert?

The customer needs to use his little gray cells.

“How can you have and Christie, if you haven’t finished your Melville?”

I always thought “Moby Dick” was a venereal disease.

He left off at “Call me Ishmael”.

Why is a mystery to me.

Harpooning on the orient express.

something is fishy here…!

I read Moby Dick in my mid-20s. The morning after the night I finished it my mom told me she heard me laughing (in my sleep). Don’t know why.

I read the first chapter and put it aside…

Aren’t Melville books thicker then Christie books?

Something’s happening in the Melville and he doesn’t know what it is.

(The same is true for the Christie. It’s a mystery to him.)

The literary version of -“How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?!”~Pink Floyd

Melville wrote Moby Dick at his house more than 150 miles west of the sea in the Berkshire mountains. Looking out of his study window he could see a view of Greylock mountain that looked like a whale’s back. A smaller hill next to Greylock looked like the tail.

I actually finished Moby-Dick. I didn’t get past the 1st chapter of Watership Down.

I read various Christie books and stories, and the short stories were better, I think. In the novels I read, anyway, she was out to subvert the reader’s expectations, even if she had to cheat to do it.

Ugh! Moby Dick was hands down the SLOWEST and least pleasant books I ever read! The GULAG Archipelago was more fun!

Jack Carr books are hard to find, thanks to the “Terminal List”. (Lots of people like Chris Pratt, who stars in the Amazon Prime series.)