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You have read Moby-Dick, haven't you, /lit/?

I can't imagine browsing this board and being an English-speaker without also reading the greatest novel ever written in English.

>> No.17614025

>>17614014
i don't speak english

>> No.17614031

>>17614014
>American
>English-speaker

Pick one

>> No.17614040

>>17614014
>the greatest novel ever written in English
*Disambiguation*
Did You Mean: The Portrait of a Lady?

>> No.17614069

>>17614014
It's an American staple.
Why woukd you assume the rest of the world would care?

>> No.17614074

It's on my shelf, unread. I will never be normie. I will NOT eat the classics or let them into my mind. Only weird shit allowed

>> No.17614077

>>17614074
only a selected few have ever eaten the classics

>> No.17614134

>>17614014
If I read moby dick then the woody Alan joke wouldn’t be funny anymore.

>> No.17614182

>>17614014
I've read it twice. In my top three of best books ever.

>> No.17614187
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>>17614014
>boohoo big whale :(
fuck off and read something of actual value

>> No.17614203

God the fads on this board!!! Moby Dick's been pushed for like a year and a half I wonder what next Meme book all the pseuds will be running to next. By the way did it come out on top of lit's 2020 list?

>> No.17614338

The mail agency is blocking a hardcover edition i ordered from the USA.

I'm hoping to better my English by reading it

>> No.17614357

This truly is the worst board on here.

>> No.17615098

>>17614074
fag

>> No.17615106

>>17614187
seething amerimutt spotted

>> No.17615111

>>17614031
where else do you think speaks English?

>> No.17615147

>>17615111
Murica is land of the imigrant, dont'cha know

>> No.17615159

>>17615147
ok, that doesn't change the fact that english was developed here

>> No.17615167

>>17615159
I thought that was VB, land of the teethless

>> No.17615188

>>17614014
>the greatest novel ever written in English.
It's not the greatest novel ever written in English. If all those bullshit cetology chapters were replaced with chapters involving characters and character action instead then maybe it could lay claim to that title.

>> No.17615206

>>17615188
>characters and character action
you probably unironically read fantasy or sci-fi don't you

>> No.17615218

>>17615206
Just imagine if the entire novel managed to stay at the heights reached by the early chapters before Ishmael embarks, or the later chapters when Ahab is so wrathful. It's a turgid mess in the middle.

>> No.17615242

>>17614014
I read it a decade ago and to this day it remains one of my favorites. I plan on rereading it this year

>> No.17616166

>>17614203
It has been top since '16 newfag.

>> No.17616181

>>17615188
Are you the same retard looking for character development in Blood Meridian from 2 weeks ago?

>> No.17616238

>>17615218
Yeah that would have been nice. The early chapters that Ishmael narrates really hook you

>> No.17616411

>>17614014
Yeah, I have. It was really good.

>> No.17616437

>>17615218
>>17616238
No No No! Cetology is the core of the book, they aren't just useless whale facts; those other parts were good because the ceto chapters put the entire book into context. It's like asking to replace desert descriptions from Blood Meridian.

>> No.17616518

>>17616437
The desert descriptions are great because McCarthy’s prose makes anything great. The cetology was just a wikipedia article riddled with jargon and Ishmael being a flamer

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>>17614014
I have read the comic book version

>> No.17616648

>>17615218
Pleb take. Those early chapters are light and whimsical in tone like Melville’s early works. The greatest strength of the book is the epic similes continuing the tradition of Homer , Dante, etc. and that doesn’t take off until they set sail

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17616705

What was his problem?

>> No.17617795

>>17614014
Yes, it was my favorite read of 2020.

>> No.17618875

>>17614014
Yes, I'm even going to be published in a highly acclaimed literary critique on the book very soon.

>> No.17619156

>>17614014
I read it once. It's hands down the gayest book ive ever read

>> No.17619412

>>17615218
The centre of the book is the best part of you aren’t a low iq adhd woman

>> No.17619437

>>17616705
stared into too many fires or something

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>>17619412
>dude whaling is so badass just think of Jonah and Hercules
>they're like literally me lmao

>> No.17620440

>>17614014
I haven't read it. I'm somewhat interested. Someone convince me

>> No.17620464

yes. a sublime book.

>> No.17620511

>>17614014
>AARRGGGHH THAT WHALE IS MEAN
moby dick is pseudcore

>> No.17620945

>>17614074
>on shelf, unread

Anon that's normie as fuck nice try tho

>> No.17620988

Slow =/= disorganised

Moby Dick's middle chapters were a little boring to me as well, but I think the successive initiation you get into the information about whaling, the historical references and biblical allusions were all there so that the last chapters are transmitted to you perfectly.

In the last few chapters you don't get lost wondering what part of the whale they're looking at, what part of the boat or lance they're holding, the ropes or the compass or anything, Melville is able to let fly with the story without breaking the immersion of whale-kino with Ahab