Re: no such thing as bad publicity?

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:50:51 +0100 (CET), Wallace Wright
<wwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:36:27AM -0500, mimus wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:23:35 -0400, Joseph Nebus wrote:

Jon Schild <jjs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Sea Wasp wrote:
The fact that people read "Moby ***" continues to confound me.

Agreed. I tried to read it last year. I failed.

I can't say just what it is about Moby ***, but I liked it.
It's very unlike other stories that I've liked, though; if you go by
the contents label I should have hated it. But I did go in with the
explicit directive to myself to read only until I got bored with its
providing more information about American Whalers of the 19th century
than there *is* information about American Whalers of the 19th
century.

That sequence of informative chapters about whaling in the middle of the
novel really ought to be in an appendix.

It's humorous to see people on Usenet second-guessing the choices of form
and style of an author whose work has stood for so long as a recognized
classic.

But which was a career-killing commercial disaster in the author's
lifetime.






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