Anyone have any tips for getting into a book that starts slow? - Help.com

Have everybody make out with each other out of the blue.
Just add random sentences or phrases every few pages.
Works for me.

Post a replyatch the movie
or go to wikipedia and search the book
sometimes its there. and will give you a review. will spoil some parts for you. but not enough.

nooneknow wrote:
Sorry Keckers, but my entire career is based on this thesis, I need help getting into it not making fun of it. And on a completely unrelated note, it is really just proof of the censorship and the puritan values that they censored the second word to a classic piece of literature.

Meh.
Moby Richard then.
It’s all good.
And honestly I didn’t know ’twas this important.
You’re just going to have to grit your teeth and get through it.
I’m sure there’s a b/w movie of it though, right?

nooneknow wrote:
I know I should just grit my teeth Keckers but I literally fell asleep last night trying to read past chapter II, I know it gets good later, but I need the buildup to the revenge and The Counte of Monte Cristo does not have enough for a Masters Thesis. Sorry I snapped at you, however the word THESIS could have tripped you off.

Heh.
Okay fine.

Start in the middle and then read both ends.

Or read the crib notes first, then skim the story and then read the end then the beginning then the middle.

Moby never gets good. I read it three times and still couldn’t figure it out. It just sends your brain into a deep freeze. Herman Melville should be rotting in hell for all the torture he has spewed upon our minds… “You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightening at intervals, and so they always command attention. You thunder and lightening too much and the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.” Mark Twain Melville should have done a rewrite….

Some of Melville’s stories contain a great deal overblown vocabulary. He does write very well though. My fvorite story was “Bartleby the Scrivener.”

First psyche yourself into thinking you are a scholar, that shouldn’t be too hard since this is for your thesis. Read only in a place and time that is conducive to you attention. Then read the book with an “active reading” style … don’t just read it.