Originally Posted by zippered
hmm interesting, i felt the same way after reading the catcher in the rye too! i've never read moby dick, but i'm pretty sure i could find it at goodwill or something. so far i'm enjoying brave new world. it's not as preachy as i thought it might be. it must have been pretty freaky reading when it was first published.
have you ever read who has seen the wind?
"moby dick" seems to be the pinnacle of long, uninteresting, dull books among people i know. i had an english professor last semester who said "melville is probably the most boring author you will ever read." i felt like "catcher in the rye" was just a bunch of angsty teenage bull****; i just wanted to scream at holden to shut up, stop being a *****, and grow up. i never went into "brave new world" thinking it would be "preachy," i went in with mostly an open mind, assuming, if anything, that it would be an orwellian rip-off, but i loved it.
no, i haven't, but i'll definitely add it to the list of books i plan on reading over this summer.