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AlexisMH

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Female 56 from USA
Interested in Women's Fiction Historicals 
About Me:
I am a writer, and as writers are, above all, readers, this looked like a fascinating opportunity to read books in manageable bits. I live in Oregon and have published 11 books in the past 15 years.

Posts and Reviews:

Moby Dick - Is anyone else struggling with this? - posted last year

I don't believe Moby Dick could get published today. It's not that it isn't a good story, and its message is probably quite profound. But the writing (which I believe *IS* characteristic of its era) is so ponderous, I couldn't stick with it. Although it has a famous opening hook ("Call me Ishmael"), by today's standards it gets off to an unforgivably slow start. A pretty hard and fast rule of writing modern fiction is to open the story as far into it as possible. In Moby Dick, we wander around New Bedford for what seems like days while nothing much happens, plotwise.