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Probably a generous supposition.

A freshly-minted account, with only three posts. So the idea is that this is a new user, and one of his very first actions is to dive into a dormant Pudlo thread to praise Pudlo for his "eloquent criticism ..."

Yeah. That's a thing that happens.

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Blood Meridian is one of the dreariest, most tediously self-important books I've ever read, and even worse: it pulls its thunderingly awful allegory (I hate allegory) from another of the dreariest, most tediously self-important books I've ever read -- Moby Dick. I'm surprised your trollish tastes don't run to more irreverent fare. If any author is ripe for ridicule and lampoon it's Cormac McCarthy.

Paul.

Moby Dick, dreary and self-important? That's odd. I absolutely loved that book from the first paragraph until the very end, and still remember some scenes as vividly as when I read them (even where I were when I read them). I'm not saying that because I loved it everyone has to love it - I'm especially aware that some of the whale-description moments (most famously, I guess, the one where he measures and pontifies over the skeleton of a whale) can be off-putting. I'm just surprised to hear those two adjectives...

I too love Moby-Dick, especially the digressions. But people's mileage will vary, I suppose. And it was a huge mistake to assign an abridged version in high school, before I understood what it was for it to require a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off.

In other news, duckduckgo has a way to go. When I type "moby-dick" into your search engine, I don't want ten pages about Moby.

who doesn't love that meaty classic?

oh, Laraquod, seemingly...



yeah, Melville's grandgrandson is a true dick... :p

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That's a safe search omission right there. Weirdly "moby dick" works just fine.

The descriptive passages were OK, I just found the characters' concerns tedious. It's not just Moby Dick. I generally find obsessive revenge quests pretty boring. Other stuff that sucked for me due to finding the revenge motive dull and off-putting: Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds. Clint Eastwood does some pretty good revenge. But when he does it, you don't have to take a bath in it.

So okay, Moby Dick — I pretty much knew that wasn't going to be near a universal opinion. But I don't see any posse forming to defend Blood Meridian. It was the mention of Blood Meridian that really sparked the combination of those adjectives. I just threw Moby Dick in for a two-fer because I also don't like that book. 87

Paul.

I don't know. I feel like if he had said his favorite book was A Confederacy of Dunces, that would have been fairly clever.