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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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If you have to 'try and try', then the author has failed, not you.I had this with Moby-Dick. It's fucking crap. That's not my fault.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 15:14,
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Moby Dick would be goodif the guy stuck to the fucking point.
It'd also be shorter by an order of magnitude
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 15:16,
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When you discover it's merely uneditedand not actually a radical new way of writing novels (ie chapters consisting purely of Melville's tedious notes on whales and whaling ships could and should have been judiciously omitted), it all starts to make sense. Someone could make a decent book out of it.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 15:23,
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 15:54,
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