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Bartleby the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
No one ever said Melville was a great writer. No wait, yes they did. However I prefer not to say that. This book shows me, a lover of old literature, that not all old books are good. I read this first while in high school in the early 80s, and I liked it. Perhaps because I could overlay whatever analysis I wanted on the one dimensional characters and zero dimensional plot. Reading it again today, I find it verbose and meaningless. And not meaningless in a philosophically waxing way. I certainly don't see the comparisons in content or craft to Camus or Kafka.