Moby Dick (Wordsworth Classics)
Registered by Crowhurst on 5/27/2003
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 2 by Crowhurst at Kings Cross St Pancras Underground station in King's Cross, Greater London United Kingdom on Thursday, May 29, 2003
Released on Thursday, May 29, 2003 at Kings Cross Underground Station - (Northern Line) in London, London - Kings Cross Underground Station (Northern Line) United Kingdom.
On the one of the seats on the Northern Line (Southbound) paltform
On the one of the seats on the Northern Line (Southbound) paltform
My wife started to read this book but gave up because she was unimpressed//normally she has very good taste and judgement about literature. I began reading the book today... longwinded or what... Sir Walter Scott, Dostoyevski. Dickens etc are the same and they are "not bad"...will persevere for now.
PS found it where it was left during a business trip to London. Thought it was a quaint and harmless idea. So thank you for leaving the book. I will leave it in a strategically sensible place when I am finished with it but this could be a long time coming if I go the distance with this book. Couldn't help noticing the previous keeper's comment.." the greatest Novel ever written".. Have you read all the others? I suppose it must have impressed you somehow.
PS found it where it was left during a business trip to London. Thought it was a quaint and harmless idea. So thank you for leaving the book. I will leave it in a strategically sensible place when I am finished with it but this could be a long time coming if I go the distance with this book. Couldn't help noticing the previous keeper's comment.." the greatest Novel ever written".. Have you read all the others? I suppose it must have impressed you somehow.
Dear Mr. Roy, (!)
Heh. Thanks for taking the time to let me know you found a Great White Whale in the London Underground. Strangest thing though is you've managed to take that copy of the book back to within 25 miles of where I bought it - FALKIRK! (l've lived down here in the SE for 12 years though I'm a "Falkirk Bairn", born & bred).
I had an English teacher when I was at school a long time ago - one of those teachers who somehow manage to "speak" to you . She often said she considered it was "the greatest novel ever written", and was always waxing lyrical about it. At the time I thought "yeah, yeah" like your wife, and maybe you too. But eventually went and had a look anyway. The first time I read it I was on an oil platform in the middle of the North Sea, maybe it was something to do with the view out of my window and the wather outside, but I found a really huge amount to fire my imagination in there, and I soon got used to, even started enjoying, the "old-fashioned" style of writing and frequent digressions into whale-lore and philosphical meditations.
Anyway, thanks again for the email, Hope you get at least something from "Moby Dick". Give Falkirk my regards next time you pass that way. Or maybe you could chuck the book out of the window as the train speeds through the High Station!
Slainte!
-=Colin.
Heh. Thanks for taking the time to let me know you found a Great White Whale in the London Underground. Strangest thing though is you've managed to take that copy of the book back to within 25 miles of where I bought it - FALKIRK! (l've lived down here in the SE for 12 years though I'm a "Falkirk Bairn", born & bred).
I had an English teacher when I was at school a long time ago - one of those teachers who somehow manage to "speak" to you . She often said she considered it was "the greatest novel ever written", and was always waxing lyrical about it. At the time I thought "yeah, yeah" like your wife, and maybe you too. But eventually went and had a look anyway. The first time I read it I was on an oil platform in the middle of the North Sea, maybe it was something to do with the view out of my window and the wather outside, but I found a really huge amount to fire my imagination in there, and I soon got used to, even started enjoying, the "old-fashioned" style of writing and frequent digressions into whale-lore and philosphical meditations.
Anyway, thanks again for the email, Hope you get at least something from "Moby Dick". Give Falkirk my regards next time you pass that way. Or maybe you could chuck the book out of the window as the train speeds through the High Station!
Slainte!
-=Colin.
Hello Crowhurst,
Dear Colin
Got your message, thanks! and also thanks for the explanation of "best
novel" Absolutely amazed you come from Falkirk where for the past 2 years
(up to April) I worked for the Legal firm of Blackadder and McMonagle, High
St. Falkirk.... small world or what?
It just makes taking all this extra bovva worthwhile
Sincerely,
RobRoy(Neil) (http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/RobRoy)
Dear Colin
Got your message, thanks! and also thanks for the explanation of "best
novel" Absolutely amazed you come from Falkirk where for the past 2 years
(up to April) I worked for the Legal firm of Blackadder and McMonagle, High
St. Falkirk.... small world or what?
It just makes taking all this extra bovva worthwhile
Sincerely,
RobRoy(Neil) (http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/RobRoy)
