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from hell's heart i stab at thee
Mar. 9th, 2025 10:38 pmNautical revenge novel time.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Why did no one tell me this starts off with the There's Only One Bed trope? I checked AO3 and there are 101 Ishmael/Queequeg fics. Fandom is out there doing the work. Anyway, yeah, this is the pursuing a white whale novel and Captain Ahab is very extra about it. There is way more knowledge drop about whales and whaling than I expected but it has it's shining literary moments. I should probably not have tried to read this while on vacation because good God does it require focus to attempt to understand the language.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I found a really nice used copy of this at the library book sale for $3! It's flexible light blue on dark blue leather bound with a cool typeset and a cover style I've never seen. It's like they did a word cloud so it has 'revenge', 'Nautilus', 'I am not what you call a civilized man', etc. etched parallel and perpendicular around the title. Why are no design artists credited in the front matter? I want to send them a fan letter. Regarding the story, for some reason I always assumed 20,000 leagues under the sea referred to depth but what it really is is distance! They go see all kinds of cool things in a submarine while you try to figure out wtf Captain Nemo's deal is. ( Spoilers I guess )
And I finally got to watch the new French film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo! The ultimate revenge story in my opinion. The cinematography was fantastic and I haven't read the book in a long time but I think it was a pretty faithful adaptation. I started watching it with the English dubbing but after like 2 minutes I switched to the French with English subtitles and it was vastly better. Recommended!
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Why did no one tell me this starts off with the There's Only One Bed trope? I checked AO3 and there are 101 Ishmael/Queequeg fics. Fandom is out there doing the work. Anyway, yeah, this is the pursuing a white whale novel and Captain Ahab is very extra about it. There is way more knowledge drop about whales and whaling than I expected but it has it's shining literary moments. I should probably not have tried to read this while on vacation because good God does it require focus to attempt to understand the language.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I found a really nice used copy of this at the library book sale for $3! It's flexible light blue on dark blue leather bound with a cool typeset and a cover style I've never seen. It's like they did a word cloud so it has 'revenge', 'Nautilus', 'I am not what you call a civilized man', etc. etched parallel and perpendicular around the title. Why are no design artists credited in the front matter? I want to send them a fan letter. Regarding the story, for some reason I always assumed 20,000 leagues under the sea referred to depth but what it really is is distance! They go see all kinds of cool things in a submarine while you try to figure out wtf Captain Nemo's deal is. ( Spoilers I guess )
And I finally got to watch the new French film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo! The ultimate revenge story in my opinion. The cinematography was fantastic and I haven't read the book in a long time but I think it was a pretty faithful adaptation. I started watching it with the English dubbing but after like 2 minutes I switched to the French with English subtitles and it was vastly better. Recommended!
