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134. Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
135. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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78) Manhattan Transfer -- John Dos Passos
79) Mrs. Dalloway -- Virginia Woolf
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81) Billy Budd, Foretopman -- Herman Melville
82) The Garden Party -- Katherine Mansfield
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84) Heart of Darkness -- Jose ...
... heard Clive Barker say it's his favorite book to read aloud, I thought I'd give Melville a second shot. I was made to read Billy Budd in high school and absolutely could not stand it to the point where I was completely turned off by Melville.
Oh! I also just procured an autographed first ...
I finished Death in Venice today. What a strange, creepy book. Next up for December I have The Story of Lucy Gault, Billy budd and Last of the Mohicans.
Pygmalion - Jean-Philippe Rameau
The Prodigal Son - Benjamin Britten
Billy Budd - Benjamin Britten
Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin
Galileo Galilei - Philip Glass Galileo's Daughter
... my professor liked it because it had a lot to it, but ick, never again will I look at that book.
#15, istartedthejoke, Billy Budd is one of only two books that I did not finish in my high school curriculum. I hated it that much. The other is The Invisible Man.
... and enjoyed. John Steinbeck I also loved. As I'm re-reading some of them now there's still one I can't stand, Billy Budd .
... of Beauharnais' plays.
Dumas' Dame aux Camellias was Verdi's source for Verdi's La Traviata, Melville's Billy Budd inspired Britten's work of the same name, and in recent years we have seen The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, A Streetcar Named Desire, Little Women and ...
... Classics collection, I am trying to stick to the new black covers only. Last year I purchased Herman Melville's Billy Budd and even though the site showed the new cover, I received the old cover. They refused to exchange it for a new one as to them, it's the same book.
I will ...
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YES! I hate Billy Budd too!
Gads...
I truly HATE both Candide by Voltaire and Billy Budd by Melville. I had to read both in high school and it was excruciating.
I do tend to like "classic" literature but those are both excellent examples of all that can be wrong with it. Sigh.
If you want to talk fiction, Billy Budd has some interesting imagery from the early 19th century.
I've been re-reading after 20+ years.
... Dick goes, I had a merificul English teacher back in high school. We only had to read the 'abridged' version. We did read Billy Budd though, and I plan on re-reading it.
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