/lit/ - Literature

>>21534172
If you remove what's between the commas you get
>jaws bit
And
>jaws completely
I dont care if the both "work" grammatical because the second one sounds bad aesthetically (this is a worse crime than not following proper grammar)

Luv me ship
'Ate whales

Simple as

>>19831078
I've only read moby dick and I can definitely see why so many people consider it one of the greatest works ever made. Is his other stuff as good?

>>18995706
>And if you read all of Moby Dick but skipped the cetology chapter. Shouldn’t that still count?
No, it doesn't count. The greatest part about Moby Dick is how Ishmael seemlessly weaves together narrative, philosophical ramblings about life, and seventeenth century whaling lore into one cohesive art. You genuinely miss out on the gravity the story presents if you ignore the context. The sheer amount of autism Melville had to have had in order to compose this is astounding and needs to be appreciated. The amount of research and love this man had for whales is visible in the work only if you take it all in. Without cetology, without the chapters that focus on Ahab's mindset, without the overly romantic, borderline pretentiousness if Ishmael's voice, it's just a story about a man who's pissed at a whale. And being just a story isn't enough to have secured it in the western canon or make it a contender for the greatest book of all time.