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Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

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The only Melville I've read to date. 😃

Deifio Me too 😅 5mo

EclecticBookLover I had to read this in college, and I didn't care for it. Now, having more life experiences, I understand Bartleby so much more! 5mo

dabbe @Deifio #greatminds 🤩😃🤗 5mo

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dabbe @EclecticBookLover I just reread it not too long ago, and that word “prefer“ just makes that sentence so powerful! 🤩😃🤗 5mo

EclecticBookLover Absolutely! 5mo

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 5mo

dabbe @Eggs 🩵🩶🩵 5mo

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dabbe

Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

Yeah, I think I need this bag. Or as a poster to put over my face at (ahem) certain times.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/merchandise/bag/

Smrloomis I LOVE this!! 😍🤩 10mo

TheBookHippie It‘s a holiday bag!!! 😅👀🤷🏻‍♀️😂 10mo

dabbe @Smrloomis 🤩🤣🤗 10mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤣🤩🤗 10mo

Aimeesue OMG, the list of things you can put in there! 🤣🤣🤣 10mo

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vivastory

Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

Moby Dick was tied with King Lear as my favorite book read last year. I have never read another book like it before. Bartleby is a jewel of a novella that starts as an employee's admirable quiet rebellion against the extra tasks that are piled on his workload with one of the greatest mottos of 19th C American lit, “I would prefer not to.“ Bartleby soon transforms into a complex story as Bartleby begins to refuse to do more & more with the (cont)

vivastory motivations left to the reader to discern. It is a work that does not provide ready explanations & Bartleby is a figure that has endured for very good reason.
Book 4 of #MidwayBOTY23 10mo

Leftcoastzen That should be my official Tshirt! 10mo

KathyWheeler I read this so long ago in undergrad and loved it. It might be time for a reread. 10mo

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shortsarahrose Moby Dick is my favorite of all time! Bartleby is so good, too, for precisely the reasons you describe. 10mo

vivastory @Leftcoastzen I have a shirt with the phrase. Should wear it to work lol 10mo

vivastory @KathyWheeler I will def revisit in the future when I have read other Melville. I plan on reading The Confidence Man next. 10mo

vivastory @shortsarahrose It is very rare for me to have a favorite book of the year but I knew while reading MD that it was going to be my favorite of the year. 10mo

KathyWheeler @vivastory it also took me over 40 years to get around to reading Moby Dick. I was so sure I wouldn‘t like it, but I decided to read it as part of a Litsy buddy read a couple of years ago and, to my shock, I loved it. 10mo

batsy I love this book! I need to tackle the big one at some point 🐳 10mo

Liz_M @Leftcoastzen I have the coffee mug 😁 which made an appearance on many COVID work zoom calls @vivastory 😂 10mo

dabbe “Ah! Bartleby, Ah! humanity!“ LOVED this! 🖤🤍🖤 10mo

vivastory @batsy I read 70-80 pages per week and was finished in about a month. The chapters are really brief but there's a lot to think about & it often switches between different perspectives so it never dragged for me 10mo

vivastory @dabbe One of the best novellas I've read 💙 10mo

vivastory @Liz_M Lol that's fantastic 10mo

Branwen Bartleby is one of my favorite names ever. I definitely have a stuffed crocodile named Bartleby! 😂🐊 10mo

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vivastory

Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

#weeklyreport
I completed 5 books this week. 2 graphic novels, completely different from one another & I didn't care for either one. The other 3 more than made up. The tagged book has been on my TBR for years & was fantastic. The Simenon was great, as was the Alice Notley. In the middle of Ransome's Swallows & Amazons & have been reading random short stories (lately mostly from Bradbury).
@cinfhen

Cinfhen Glad the three other books were winners😊 1y

shortsarahrose Love Bartleby! 1y

dabbe Ah, humanity!❣️ 1y

rwmg Granted we can assume all sorts of weird postures while reading but could anyone read in that position? 1y

vivastory @rwmg Ziggy Stardust can! 1y

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LindaLappin

Bartleby: The Scrivener | Herman Melville

An eerie tale of passive resistance, nonconformism, civil disobedience. Bartelby
efficient employee, forlorn outsider, one day just refuses to carry on at his mindless task, offering his boss this explanation: I would prefer not to. And ends up going to jail.
#SavvySettings Day 23, #Prison. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤📚👍🏻 2y

Eggs Sounds intriguing-some days that‘s me…but a job can be a prison too….. 2y

LindaLappin @Eggs so true 2y

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