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1053903 No.1053903 [Reply] [Original]

type "moby" into google and auto-complete does not come up with the remaining "dick"

mfw

>> No.1053912

I've never read the book. Is it good?

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>> No.1053924

>>1053912
I've never read a book. Is it good?

>> No.1053945

it makes me sad to think there will never be a movie adaptation as epic as the book.

>> No.1053946

>>1053912

Yes. It has a very slow pace, though.

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>>1053912

A lot of people get bogged down in the language and details, but it's pretty fascinating in the right frame of mind. Half of it's basically a guide to catching and killing whales from a small boat. Places, commerce, crew-members, types of harpoons and boats; what a whale is, what parts it has, how to process it, etc.. This stuff is scattered about the main basic narrative. Melville also extrapolates myths and philosophy a whole lot.

If you like footnotes, ignore pic related because it doesn't have any. It's a really nice illustrated edition though. Facsimile of the famous Arion Press edition.