Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

I've always been a afraid of Moby Dick. (That's probably a great voiceover line for the beginning of a gay porno.) Like Moby Dick, there are some books who's length & reputation just plain frighten me, books like War & Peace, Middlemarch, Infinite Jest, Don Quixote, Ulysses & In Remembrance of Lost Time. So far, I've only braved two of them and have had mixed results. I've been inching my way through Don Quixote for years and I just can't get into it. I'm not even half way...