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So we all know moby dick is great but what do you guys think about his other novels?

>> No.12541051
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Moby duck is great yeah, other novels? Haven’t read em....well....I guess I’ll be going now heheh.

>> No.12541098

>>12540989
The Confidence-Man is good, a bit boring at times but droll nonetheless

>> No.12541114

White-Jacket is the SGOAT (second greatest of all time)
I'm part of a zuckbook group about Melville and I think there's a lot of frustration in it that people just want to talk about Moby Dick or Bartleby

>> No.12541122

>>12540989
I would prefer not to.

>> No.12541129

>>12541114
>he hasn't read Pierre

>> No.12541184

>>12541114
What do you thonk about typee?

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>>12540989
If I have only read Moby Dick, with which one of his works should I start with?

>> No.12541219

>>12541184
Some people like Typee a lot more than I do, which isn't to say that I dislike it. I just tend to view it as something important to read to understand the evolution of Melville's work. It's the first Melville book where I think you can feel him escaping Hawthorne's shadow.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I think most people reading Typee these days are reading it more out of critical/historical interest than a desire to just read it, if you get what I'm saying.
>>12541129
Pierre is also pretty good, I won't dispute that. It's probably better written than White-Jacket, I just prefer the latter.
>>12541190
Try Pierre or The Piazza Tales

>> No.12541232

>>12541219
Will i like it if i have a fetish for pacific islander girls?

>> No.12541234

>>12540989
Pierre and Confidence-Man are too big brain for me

I love Billy Budd, White Jacket, and Bartleby

>> No.12541246

>>12541232
Uh, sure, but you might be better of reading a Gaugin biography.

>> No.12541297

>>12540989
Bartleby, Billy Budd, the Confidence Man, and his poems are all top-tier. Not on the same level as Moby-Dick, but then again, nothing really is. Also, he tried to revert to more mainstream novels/novellas after Moby-Dick was a commercial failure.

>> No.12541351

>>12541297
Pierre is what came after MD, and that book just goes off the rails with complex sentences and incest. Hardly a conventional novel.