Based on the cool suggestion by Historiann, I am proposing to run a Moby Dicke booke clubbe. The plan is to poste one chapter every other day, and then discuss the chapter in the comments. This will thus take about nine months to go through the whole book.
In order to determine if this is going to be worth doing, please respond in the comments if you are interested in participating, which would require at least occasional commenting (not on every chapter, obviously, but at least sometimes).
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al
December 7, 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
yes!
Historiann
December 7, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m in, and will post a link on my blog for this.
physicsphdstu
December 7, 2012 at 12:53 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
call me participant.
recent Ph.D.
December 7, 2012 at 1:48 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
On the condition that you apply your distinctive linguistical quirkes to the chapter titles.
kingdomoffife
December 7, 2012 at 3:12 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You might find this of interest . . . The Moby Dick Big Read
dysomniak, darwinian socialist
December 7, 2012 at 3:29 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Count me inne.
Lithified Detritus
December 7, 2012 at 3:37 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m not sure where this idea came from, but it could be fun.
Moby Dicke is a great book. I first read it at 17, when I spent a month in the hospital. Much of it went over my head at that time, and at that age I was reading it as a serious work. I read it again a few years back and had an entirely different take on it. It is a serious work, but Melville also shows a sense of humor. Ishmael’s initial encounter with Queequeg is freaking hilarious. The story also offers a window into a place and time totally alien to the modern American.
Count me in.
brianogilvie
December 7, 2012 at 4:56 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m game!
Form&Function
December 7, 2012 at 8:07 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sounds like fun! I will definitely try it out if you decide to go forward with it.
Em
December 7, 2012 at 10:36 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yes please. It’s the kind of book that’s even better with company.
Beaker
December 8, 2012 at 2:16 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You might consider using this useful online annotation
gretchenadams
December 8, 2012 at 7:43 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m absolutely *in*
Chebag
December 8, 2012 at 3:04 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This Moby Dickke crap is dated. You shoul try a real work of genius. Like The Pelican Brief
fuckesatonne
December 8, 2012 at 3:23 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“if you are interested in participating, which would require at least occasional commenting…”
Well, hey, if it requires only posting and not reading the chapter, count me in. I think it would be great to read a whole bunch of posts from people who don’t know what the fucke they’re talking about. That would be such a unique, refreshing experience.
palmd
December 8, 2012 at 6:32 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Im absolutely in. Love moby dick
Chebag
December 9, 2012 at 7:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I can’t believe a serious person like PalmD is actually encouraging this crappe. Does this guy pay you off or what?
Historiann
December 9, 2012 at 1:47 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Fratguy is also in. He’s the English major around here. I don’t know why he didn’t post here himself. (Oh, yeah–3 days of call in a row! Awesome!!!)
TheGrinch
December 9, 2012 at 4:37 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
When do we start?
Matt_L
December 10, 2012 at 12:38 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Absolutely. Sounds great. I’ve read it as a comic book (in college procrastinating on my senior thesis) and the novel (grad student procrastinating on dissertation). I’ve got a heinous article deadline that keeps slipping. This is perfect. I found out about this from the post over at Historiann’s place.
fourtinefork
December 11, 2012 at 12:33 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I have tried to read Moby Dick before. It never worked. Fine. I will try again. I assume we can drink lots of rum while doing this? Rum? Navy-strength gin? Something?
Tenured Radical
December 12, 2012 at 7:40 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m in. Link going up tonight.
Madwoman with a Laptop
December 12, 2012 at 9:28 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well, fuckkkkkkkke, as an English prof and an Americanist, I reckon I gotta get in on this action. I’ll try to catch up and promise to promote it on my blog if I ever get to the bottom of the piles of papers demanding my attention. Cool idea, CPP!
grrlpup
December 12, 2012 at 9:57 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
me! DailyLit got me through Moby Dick a couple of years ago, along with ambrmerlinus’ commentary.
danroyles
December 13, 2012 at 1:09 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
So down with this.
jmercan
December 13, 2012 at 9:30 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Making my way through the book, so this is additional motivation.
CallmeMoby
December 15, 2012 at 10:23 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sounds fun.
Llamadme Ismael
December 21, 2012 at 4:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Totes down.
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December 7, 2012 at 12:56 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
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