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What's the significance of Ishmael and Queeqeg's little gay love affair at the beginning of the book? How does it tie into the rest of the story? I thought Moby Dick was renowned for its thematic cohesion, after all.

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>Call me Ishmael
Why is it considered to be the best opening line of a book ever?
What makes a good opening line?
Also, can you recommend books which are similar to Moby Dick?

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>On the mood to read something with a nice, immersive story
>Decide to read this
>Call me Ishmael
>Describes every man as a horny gay guy
>Every other chapter stops to talk about some useless nonsense

Story is pretty enjoyable, though. But fuck, I'm on page 200 and I suspect I've only really read about 100.
Does it ever stop?

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What was Moby Dick a symbol for?

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>gay sex and shitty science

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Now THIS is how you write a fucking novel!

Out of my way pomo fucking shits!

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Is six a proper age for me to read Moby Dick and Kill a Mockingbird to a child?

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Am I wrong in thinking that this is the best novel of all-time over Ulysses?

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I'm reading through Moby Dick right now and I don't know what to make of the chapters dedicated to whaling. Sure some of it is humorous but most if it isn't even scientific fact. Can someone explain to me why Melville dedicated so much room to them? Was it a convention of style? Was he 3deep5me?

Because of all the complaints I hear, perhaps only those chapters haven't aged well.

That being said, I'm really loving it (almost done). Its actually really funny, the prose reads amazingly well, and I'm hooked on the concept of whaling.

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I just finished Moby Dick...

There's a quotation from Midnight In Paris (i know, but bear with me): "We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

After reading Moby Dick, I can't find that antidote. I feel so empty. I'm sitting here feeling like life is completely empty, meaningless, and we're ignorant specks at the mercy of forces we can never grapple with. Does this book offer anything redeeming about humanity? Or is life just a cruel ticking time bomb of a joke?

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