tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post113243235045394743..comments2024-03-14T00:16:32.077-07:00Comments on 50 Books: BOOKS: Moby Dick and Other Books I Will Never ReadTammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-33943695694038774062008-04-11T05:15:00.000-07:002008-04-11T05:15:00.000-07:00I had to put Moby Dick down when I got to the sper...I had to put Moby Dick down when I got to the sperm squeezing bit I was laughing so much. Actually I laughed pretty much every time there was 'sperm' without 'whale' right after it, there's just so many possibilities....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133424163236291532005-12-01T00:02:00.000-08:002005-12-01T00:02:00.000-08:00Well, all I have to say to that is "Ewwww." I mean...Well, all I have to say to that is "Ewwww." I mean, I love gay porn as much as the next girl, but there's a limit.Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133365365410217532005-11-30T07:42:00.000-08:002005-11-30T07:42:00.000-08:00Hah! I don't make this stuff up. The truth is to...Hah! I don't make this stuff up. The truth is too amusing to my inner 12-year old:<BR/><BR/>From Chapter 95:<BR/><BR/>Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness. <BR/>Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! <BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.online-literature.com/view.php/mobydick/95Carohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06007120832939598365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133339805393634962005-11-30T00:36:00.000-08:002005-11-30T00:36:00.000-08:00I think my dad gave me a copy of the extreme bible...I think my dad gave me a copy of the extreme bible or something very similar to it. I recognize the bright colours and radical fonts. All I remember was there were colour pages every so often that explained the Bible's position on various topics related to teens. It was like Bible Cole's notes. And I read Revelations when I get bored...and then I start looking for signs of the Apocalypse and start getting paranoid about my soul.Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06894215177878536537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133318171441807022005-11-29T18:36:00.000-08:002005-11-29T18:36:00.000-08:00satanic verses is BRILLIANT but sweet jesus, it's ...satanic verses is BRILLIANT but sweet jesus, it's a lot of work. read ground beneath her feet or midnight's children instead.<BR/><BR/>have read ulysses (for a class) - yawn.<BR/><BR/>tess - oh for god's sake, woman, grow a backbone! she made me NUTS. much prefer wharton to hardy :)<BR/><BR/>and gwtw - total beach read. never seen the film but the book was total fluff!BabelBabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00467487618830618571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133292609704054562005-11-29T11:30:00.000-08:002005-11-29T11:30:00.000-08:00Caro said:"All that running around dressed as a wh...Caro said:<BR/><BR/>"All that running around dressed as a whale penis and holding hands in the sperm..."<BR/><BR/>Whuh? Seriously? Are you sure you aren't thinking of the movie <I>Moby Dick 2: The Sperminator</I>?Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133290217231567372005-11-29T10:50:00.000-08:002005-11-29T10:50:00.000-08:00Aw, c'mon! I liked Moby Dick! All that running ar...Aw, c'mon! I liked Moby Dick! All that running around dressed as a whale penis and holding hands in the sperm cracks me up when I think of the fact that my dad read it to me when I was nine and he kinda glossed over that part. Also, it's a real immersion into a different world.Carohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06007120832939598365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133276919014595362005-11-29T07:08:00.000-08:002005-11-29T07:08:00.000-08:00Those darned begats get me everytime, too! Moby Di...Those darned begats get me everytime, too! <BR/><BR/><I>Moby Dick</I> was a right of passage in my high school. It was on the summer reading list for Miss Adams's class and had been for eternity. I read it during downtime at my summer job and would have people of all ages saying, "You must have Miss Adams."<BR/><BR/>I have so many books that I bought because I thought I ought to read them and never have.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07708528079142986732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133273164253132582005-11-29T06:06:00.000-08:002005-11-29T06:06:00.000-08:00Oh good, someone else who does not plan to read Mo...Oh good, someone else who does not plan to read <I>Moby Dick</I>. After making my way through <I>Billy Budd</I> I just couldn't take any more Melville on the seafaring life.<BR/><BR/>If you've survived <I>Clarissa</I>, there's a bit in <I>Thus Was Adonis Murdered</I>, by Sarah Caudwell, that you'll enjoy. (The Caudwell books aren't great literature, but they're delightful reads.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133233683365562322005-11-28T19:08:00.000-08:002005-11-28T19:08:00.000-08:00"I did read Tess a few years ago, and it wasn't ha..."I did read Tess a few years ago, and it wasn't half bad. The bitch kind of got on my nerves, though."<BR/><BR/>Hee!<BR/><BR/>Antipodean, I won't just pray for you. I'll light a candle for you.Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133230070254379132005-11-28T18:07:00.000-08:002005-11-28T18:07:00.000-08:00I'm talking about the Important Books you always b...<I> I'm talking about the Important Books you always believed that, as a book lover, you'd get around to, but somehow the fire has died. And you're one hundred percent cool with that.</I><BR/><BR/>Totally. I just recently had my own "Great Book Purge of '05" and took well over a hundred books to the local used bookstore (gaining $200 in credit). Quite a few were of the "No respectable bibliophile would be caught without this on their bookshelf" variety. One of them was <I>Ulysses</I>. No clue why I bought that in the first place. I did read <I>Tess</I> a few years ago, and it wasn't half bad. The bitch kind of got on my nerves, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133212570648297582005-11-28T13:16:00.000-08:002005-11-28T13:16:00.000-08:00Well. See now, Jodeci and Monty? Now you're making...Well. See now, Jodeci and Monty? Now you're making me regret my decision. You're making it very difficult for me to trumpet my opinions with the ignorant conviction I crave.<BR/><BR/>And Shirky? Where do you work? I have to come by and punch your co-worker in the nose.Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133210127442007732005-11-28T12:35:00.000-08:002005-11-28T12:35:00.000-08:00I have a coworker who carries a laminated card bea...I have a coworker who carries a laminated card bearing a quote from Moby Dick in his wallet. I only wish I knew what the quote was, the better to mock him.Shirkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828417429531622405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133208801600075952005-11-28T12:13:00.000-08:002005-11-28T12:13:00.000-08:00Dude,Don't judge Gone With the Wind based upon the...Dude,<BR/>Don't judge Gone With the Wind based upon the movie. In comparison to the book, the movie sucks wind (ha ha). I've read GWTW too many times to count and it's the best book I've ever read each time. Trust me, you'll love it.<BR/>I had the same goal in HS about the Bible too - and Exodus is right about where I gave up as well. Begat this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133203732222164852005-11-28T10:48:00.000-08:002005-11-28T10:48:00.000-08:00I think that the mouth-breathers in that class pro...I think that the mouth-breathers in that class probably depressed him so much that he would have let us skate by on a lot less gold-bricking than we actually did. God bless that man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133199838547381072005-11-28T09:43:00.000-08:002005-11-28T09:43:00.000-08:00See, Wing? This is another example of your superio...See, Wing? This is another example of your superior studenting skills. I don't even remember <I>Bleak House</I> being assigned. I could make a shortlist of novels I faked my way through for that class. After <I>Bleak House</I> comes <I>Tom Jones</I>...<BR/><BR/>Do you think Crick knew? Or was he too beleagured to even care?Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133197813985554562005-11-28T09:10:00.000-08:002005-11-28T09:10:00.000-08:00I read Tess for a huge paper I wrote as an undergr...I read <I>Tess</I> for a huge paper I wrote as an undergrad...it was okay. But I have never read one word of Dickens -- and that includes in that Crick class "The Novel" in fourth year when <I>Bleak House</I> was assigned toward the end of the year. I knew I wasn't doing a paper or a seminar on it and I knew there wasn't an exam, so I skipped it. But I did crack the spine to front like I hadn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133197494809048262005-11-28T09:04:00.000-08:002005-11-28T09:04:00.000-08:00In school I had a list of authors-I-wished-death-u...In school I had a list of authors-I-wished-death-upon. I used to take great pleasure in crossing off the ones who were already dead.<BR/><BR/>I realise I didn't kill him personally, but being able to cross out Nathaniel Hawthorne all 'Ha! Take <I>that</I> Mr. Anvils O' Symbolism' still felt like a victory.<BR/><BR/>Hardy was on the list initially, but removed when I realised his short stories didn't annoy me like the novels did.Essyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251872273863804043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133196759152957222005-11-28T08:52:00.000-08:002005-11-28T08:52:00.000-08:00Oh my god, Kay, you're right. I can't believe I di...Oh my god, Kay, you're right. I can't believe I didn't read them earlier! My favourite so far:<BR/><BR/>"Halfway through John's Gospel and already I knew I wasn't extreme enough for this book. JC filled me with an urge to snowboard down the Rockies while screaming "screw you Satan" during my run. I almost ran out and got WWJD tatooed on my forehead. Man, that woulda been extreme. So instead I settled for some Extreme Mountain Dew and Yogurt bars while I played Tony Hawk pulling off my signature move (you guessed it), Christ Air.<BR/><BR/>But I'm not giving up on JC, oh hell no. I may not be Extreme enough for the Extreme Bible, but wait until the "Holy Bible: IM Version (LOL)" comes out. I'm all over that. Christ and I will be ROFLing at all you sinners as we chat it up. OMG I can't wait! Ok, gtg ttyl lol!!!111"Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16613804843380827691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133192616170015982005-11-28T07:43:00.000-08:002005-11-28T07:43:00.000-08:00Oh, even better than that extreme bible is Revolve...Oh, even better than that extreme bible is <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0718003586/104-5149308-9449546?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance" REL="nofollow">Revolve</A>, the Bible as fashion magazine. Truly brilliant, in a "people take this shit seriously?" way.Sharpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05898283933566439411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9931308.post-1133192280935622272005-11-28T07:38:00.000-08:002005-11-28T07:38:00.000-08:00The reviews for the EXTREME!!!! Teen Bible are pre...The reviews for the EXTREME!!!! Teen Bible are pretty effing hilarious. <BR/>"Make no mistake! This bible is filled with so much EXTREMENESS that you'll become THE person to talk to at your high school when the entire cheerleading squad wants to know about how Judas betrayed Jesus. This bible will change your life. It will transform you from a nerdy overweight dork to a stunning slick-haired hunk almost instantly."Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16731464904041384828noreply@blogger.com