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Bartleby The Scrivener

Bartleby The Scrivener by Herman Melville

August 11, 2024 by jmsudar 1 Comment

I won’t lie, I read this because of a joke in Archer. Having read it, the joke is brilliant. I love little discoveries like that. Bartleby the Scrivener is a short story about a scrivener (copier of longhand legal documents) who one day upsets the entire order of his workplace when he is asked to do part of his job and responds “I’d prefer not to.” This escalates, with Bartleby preferring not to do more and more, until he is slowly driven out of his entire […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Herman Melville

jmsudar's CBR16 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Herman Melville ·
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Moby Dick

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

August 3, 2024 by jmsudar 1 Comment

I write as a hobby. Last month I finished my biggest milestone as a writer, completing my second novel length story. I hope it’ll get published but have no idea if it will, but either way having passed this, I’m taking a break from reading… fun things that I enjoy. Instead, I’m going to read through a huge collection of classic texts whose style I didn’t want polluting my writing. May god have mercy on my soul. Moby Dick is the first on my list […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Herman Melville

jmsudar's CBR16 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Herman Melville ·
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Snubbed and Bingo #3!

November 27, 2018 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

 cbr10bingo Snubbed Christophe Chaboute’s graphic novel adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was nominated for a 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium. It lost to Damien Duffy and John Jennings’ adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I’ve never had a great desire to conquer Moby Dick. It was never assigned in any of my high school or university literature classes, and frankly, the story of a crazy old sea captain trying to exact revenge on a white whale sounded weird. And then there’s […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, Christophe Chaboute, Eisner Award, ElCicco, Graphic Novel, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, snubbed

ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:48 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, Christophe Chaboute, Eisner Award, ElCicco, Graphic Novel, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, snubbed ·
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The implacable horror of isolation

June 22, 2018 by ingres77 1 Comment

There are books that speak to you. Books that reach down into the core of your inner being to play the delicate chords of your heart strings. Books that stay with you, becoming a passenger for life, indelibly connecting you to a particular place and time, like some kind of existential anchor of permanence in a sea of change. Moby Dick is one such book, for me. That book haunts me. It’s the girl I had a crush on in high school but was too afraid […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror Tagged With: dan simmons, Herman Melville, HP Lovecraft, Moby Dick, the Franklin Expedition, The Terror

ingres77's CBR10 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror · Tags: dan simmons, Herman Melville, HP Lovecraft, Moby Dick, the Franklin Expedition, The Terror ·
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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

March 29, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a collection of three short stories from Melville that I listened to last night. I was telling a colleague at school how seniors in the second semester remind me so much of Bartleby that I felt like I should reread and revisit the story, as it’s been almost ten years since I last saw it. High school seniors in their final semester are often energetic and intense and so ready for the next steps. I know I was (not by my own virtues […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Stories, Herman Melville

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:80 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Stories, Herman Melville ·
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It’s not a fish, dammit! (Sorry, I needed to get that off my chest.)

August 25, 2017 by KimMiE" 8 Comments

I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I started reading Moby Dick. Of course everyone is familiar with Ahab and the Pequod and “Call me Ishmael,” possibly the most famous opening line in American literature. I knew that Starbuck was more than a source for satisfying my frappuccino craving and, thanks to Dana Scully’s ill-fated pomeranian, I knew there was a character called Queequeg, but that was about it. Opening to page 1 of this 135-chapter behemoth, I was pretty much a blank slate. My […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: American Fiction, cbr9, classics, Fiction, Herman Melville, KimMiE", nautical fiction

KimMiE"'s CBR9 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: American Fiction, cbr9, classics, Fiction, Herman Melville, KimMiE", nautical fiction ·
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