| Neutral-Bob wrote: |
| Damn...just damn. If they actually marketed the book like this I'd be inclined to agree. Although to be honest I never really cared for Moby Dick. It felt like it spent more time describing the various parts of the ship then it did developing the characters. |
It did. That's what comes when you hire a nautical obsessive who gets paid to write by the word to write you a book.
My recommendation: find a good abridged version. The story is actually pretty damn epic when the excess is trimmed. (As a lit major, a lot of me lives for this excess, but even I just want to read an all-story version sometime.) Sadly my favorite book, Les Miserables, suffers from the same problem--I also recommend a good abridged version of that, to get the awesome story.
Ahem. End rant. As to the original question...I say more power to 'em. I don't think slapping a new cover on the story cheapens it at all (well...not very much anyway), and, being the budding literature/history teacher that I am, I'm completely psyched by the idea of ANYTHING that will get someone to voluntarily pick up a book--especially one of this difficulty. I hope they have great success with the experiment. I can't believe I'm saying this, but good for EA.
