/lit/ - Literature

If you believe the fuckery hereabouts, Moby Dick is a readers dream come true. That's about the worst cover and edition in your pic BTW.

Because straights don't realize its about gheeeeey sex. It's meme tier. Whole chapters on Cetology.wtf. Great cover variants, though. You didn't fall for this meme, did you anon?

Just finished this masterpiece for the very first time. You were right, it's brilliant, a tear came to my eye as I read the last sentence.

>all the harpooneers are men of color
>captain and mates are all white men
...does this not seem problematic to anyone else?

it's so dense

What's the deal with Fedallah?

Well... I don't hate it, but I am so damn tired of the metaphors and similes! Every page is a sentence of information and 4 or 5 of metaphors or similes of that information. It's like a literary thesaurus. My brain is taffy pulled thin, tenuously linked back to that original idea as it wanders down the path of only the latest of the iterations of that tired rehashing.

The forests of trees like school children speak the name Melville with shivers and in hushed tones. Oh, were it not for this boogie-man of the woods, this terror of the forest school yards, were he so imaginary as those previous tormentors! Nay, he is real, real as the ground you stand on, and right horrors he has visited upon the great pulp bearing organisms! With nary a thought, in an age where the only medium is cellulose based, he spins his yarn, and repetitiously reiterates every point with some comparison like a long winded over-achieving poet trying to impress a girl with the literary picture he paints.

Reader beware, for the tongue of Melville lashes with impunity! It wags like a dog and is as incessant as the dog's drool, if left unabated would surely fill buckets! Buckets, I say! Imagine the feelings of revulsion you might feel at buckets of canine drool, strewn about, so much you'd have to watch your step to cross the room. Now that feeling of revulsion, being entirely natural to the species, is the result of those buckets containing considerable bacteria and other disease causing agents, serves a biological purpose. Protecting one like a coat from the damaging cold that is sickness. This or a very similar revulsion felt at the prodigious use of metaphor and simile by Melville server to protect one from the dangers of not being able to recall what the hell the original subject was.

this actually fucking slaps

what is tha moby dick of your country?

Been reading this book and it's been fucking great. It's like the literary equivalent of eating a box of fine chocolates where every page makes you want to just take a bite and savor the flavor. I never knew my boy Melville could make a bunch of chapters about whale heads absolutely fascinating to read.

wow dude i get it, water is pretty great and all. oh thanks for this 20 page description of the inside of an inn, i would have never guessed what a run down inn in a whaling village looks like.
moby dick? more like suck my dick

>CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
Why was this chapter called "The Hyena"? The chapter had nothing to do with Hyenas.

Pic related: another example of writers who act smarter than they actually are

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Just checked this out, OP. What am I in for?

When does this get good?

So far it feels like I've been reading a homoerotic novel about a white man and his gay savage lover.

Hey /lit/, I might be stupid or something but how do I accelerate when I read?
My older brother keeps telling my my momentum should be increasing sentence per sentence as if my eyes were a pendolum and its motion was increasing speed.

Im trying to read atm, and My reading pace doesn't get any faster at all, and It's really bugging me, Ive read the same page 10 times even and I can't actually accelerate my pace.

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LOL almost all Moby Dick covers are bad but that one is especially bad.

Pic related:- the second-worst Moby Dick cover after that one

Haven't read John Greene yet, still slogging through this bad boy, Should be done in a few weeks

Hey /lit/
Ive been reading moby dick for the past couple months now, and Im just about half way through, so I'm starting of thinking what my next book will be

Any suggestions?

If captain Ahab had two first mates.
Would they be... Starbucks?

>book starts
>loving it
>has nice description
>humor
>all from one characters POV
>you are journeying with him
>he gets on the ship
>blah blah blah dinner service
>"It was my first day at the mast head"
>blah blah blah history of masthead
>blah blah blah egyptians
>blah blah blah washingtons
>blah blah blah
>blah blah blah

Holy shit just get on the masthead. I should have gotten abridged.

Any essential pre-reading material I gotta go through or can I just jump into it?

Was the white whale a metaphor for Jezebel?