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Reminder that if you haven't read Moby-Dick yet you don't belong on /lit/. Get the fuck off this board if you haven't at least read the Great American Novel.

>> No.12558317

I unironically agree with this suggestion

>> No.12558332

>>12558292
What if I'm not anglo?

>> No.12558614

i think the old man and the sea is more iconic sorry

>> No.12558698

>>12558292
It's not really a novel. It's more of a summary of whaling practices with a few chapters of plot.

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12558708

>imagining not getting Moby Dick
It’s about Ishmael’s derealization and the whale representing the symbol of value by the way.

>> No.12558713

>whiteness of the whale chapter
Was Melville a sjw??

>> No.12558783

>Reading a book about some grandpa trying to beat a whale but getting BTFO in the process.
No thanks

>> No.12558902
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12558902

Have YOU read the great Australian novel?

>> No.12558920

>>12558713
He was a homo so probably

>> No.12558925

>>12558292
I'm not american.

>> No.12559991

>>12558292
It's not a novel it's a prose epic.

>> No.12560015

>>12558925
This.
But I'm ashamed I still havent read Sinuhe egyptiläinen :/

>> No.12560029

>>12558920
He actually wasn't, almost none of the writers that they claim are gay are actually gay. They just had close male friendships unlike any of us

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12560076

I'd rather go for the roots of all western civilization, thanks.

>> No.12560086

>>12558292
What makes it so necessary? I'll read it next for sure, but why this book more than others?

>> No.12560115

>>12560015
I'm from Argentina and I haven't read Borges.

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>>12558902
You meant this right?

>> No.12560273

>>12558708
Im pretty sure it says right in the fucking book that it is not a metaphor

>> No.12560275

>>12558292
Read it and loved it, wonderful book

>> No.12560279

>>12560115
Que pelotudo

>> No.12560342

>>12560115
Matate.

>> No.12560350

>>12560115
pendejo

>> No.12560403

>>12560115
espero que sea irónico

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>>12560076
you posted the wrong picture, let me help you

>> No.12560426

>>12560413
When will they learn

>> No.12560469

>>12558292
Not everyone on 4chan is from the anglosphere or interested in anglo literature. I'm Asian and for more interested in German and French literature.

>> No.12561234

>>12560115
vas ahora mismo a la librería más cercana y te comprás una copia de sus cuentos completos, me chupa un huevo si después no podes pagar la electricidad, borges vale más que tu calidad de vida, negro mongolico

>> No.12561399

>best american novel
>every page has a reference to the bible

moby dick is pushed by christcucks

>> No.12561410

>>12560469
Stop calling Americans Anglo, we're better than them.

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>>12558292
>Great American Novel.
Has anyone noticed how everything of cultural value produced in America has been made by European migrants of first or at most second generation? After a generation or two in Murrika they seem to drop a few dozen IQ points and switch interests to MTV and Walmart.