Billy BudHerman Melville
Billy Bud
by Herman Melville · first published 1961
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…expectations of Dickens' other work rather crushed at that point. Oh, and forcing anyone to read Melville should be a crime. A very few people I know loved the experience, but I was unable to finish Billy Bud much less Moby Dick.
on “H.L. Mencken Reviews the Great Gatsby (1925)” ↗…should try other Dickens like Bleak House. I do enjoy some other Victorian authors--at least the few best-regarded books I've tried like Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope. I vaguely recall not liking Billy Bud in high school although I read Moby Dick as an adult and was mostly glad I worked my way through but it did take an effort. I don't think I hated Catcher in the Rye at the time. It just didn't make much…
on “H.L. Mencken Reviews the Great Gatsby (1925)” ↗