/lit/ - Literature

Give me good books about pirates or sea adventures

I can't believe nobody has put this up there yet. If I ever want to whale and am looking for a boring, overly uneventful encyclopedia of whales then I will be sure to bring this piece of droll on my ship.

I mean, I got the themes and everything... I understand that in order to have the reader relate to Ishmael, Melville put in the overly long, disgustingly detailed chapters, but I don't want to read that shit in High School, much less during my winter vacation.

So it's basically about whales?

Oh wait, yes it is.

What book would you consider /lit/ to be the great

American novel? In my belief it would if to be Moby Dick

for how epic the book was reading.

OK /lit/, what books do you use to get someone that doesn't read into reading. They have to grab the reader by the balls from the first chapters and make him want to always turn the page.

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What does /lit/ think about moby dick ?

overrated and full of cliche

Ever have one of those days when you pursue an infamous white whale with a phallic name?