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I got filtered...

>> No.19037690

>>19037676
which chapter?

>> No.19038886
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19038886

Don’t give up. Moby Dick is one of the classics.

>> No.19039109

>>19038886
Precisely why he got filtered. To get the most out of classics, you should read other classics

>> No.19039114
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19039114

Picrel has a lot of good commentary to keep you going

>> No.19039143

>>19037676
Are whales even aggressive? How does a whale destroy a ship? What is this capeshit crap?

>> No.19039163

>>19037676
I am convinced this book is the ultimate filter for people who read for plot and simply cannot abide the vibe. If you want to reach a higher level of reading you must learn to vibe. At even higher levels of literature than this, vibe replaces plot entirely and you will not miss it.

>> No.19039177

>>19039163
>vibe
Back whence nigger zoomer hole you creeped from

>> No.19039183

>>19039177
This anon definitely cannot vibe.

>> No.19039189

>It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude: on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow. Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.

>> No.19039194

>Melville admits that he can't write and his novel was trash
>amerimutts still hail it as a masterpiece cause they've got nothing else in their sad canon

>> No.19039198

>>19037676
>love the book
>great book
>all of sudden whaling encyclopaedia based on old-timey "facts" which are not correct
I fundamentally couldn't keep reading because I don't want to put incorrect information into my head.

>> No.19039211

>>19039198
How do you manage to read anything older than you? Besides, whatever you learn now that is accepted as the truth can easily be supplanted in a day.

>> No.19039214

>>19039211
I don't read 19th century encyclopaedias. If it's fiction it's fiction, but in that book he writes as if he's a wiki editor.

>> No.19039217

>>19039214
iirc, it's still Ishmael speaking. Are you bugged by a fictional character having faulty knowledge?

>> No.19039244

>>19039217
I'm bugged by reading hundreds of pages where he goes over the same inane shit over and over.
I tried to plow through it but it kept on going non-stop. When I realised it wasn't going to end (possibly for the rest of the book?) I decided to prioritise some better books I had in my to-read pile.
Life's too short and busy to read every book and I'm not going to waste the time I do have on that when I could be reading one of the thousands of other "must-read classics".

>> No.19039247

There's another thread going at the moment pointing out the inconsistencies within the book.
Melville's an absolute hack.

>>19034228
>>19038252

>> No.19039250

>>19039244
Yep, filtered

>> No.19039252

>>19039244
Fair enough. If you don't like it, you don't like it. What book(s) did you decide to replace Moby Dick with?

>> No.19039260

>>19039252
It was a while ago (I think around 2011?) but I think I went straight into Ulysses or I had read it just before. I finished reading that but I thought it was a shitty slice-of-life book. I also read A Farewell to Arms and The Brothers Karamazov around the same time. They were better.

>> No.19039275

>>19039244
>hundreds of pages where he goes over the same inane shit over and over.
>I tried to plow through it but it kept on
These exaggerations only make you look like a fool. You could easily skip these parts if you wanted to, they are nowhere near that many.

>> No.19039277

>>19039177
getting a real bad vibe here gents...

>> No.19039289

>>19039275
I wouldn't say you could skip them. Plenty of the more "wiki editor" (as he referred to them) chapters foreshadow future events. The chapter on the rope, for example.

>> No.19039333

>>19039289
>>19039275
Skipping chapters is far worse than pausing a book to come back to later.
It's the only book I've ever stopped reading without finishing and I plan to rectify that someday but it won't be while I still have a lot of better options.

>> No.19039338

>>19039333
Infact I would even say skipping chapters just to say you've read a book is the most pseud thing you could do which is quite telling of the kind of posters you have here on /lit/.
They're not reading the books because they enjoy or probably even understand them, they just want to be able to say they have so that they can feel some sense of satisfaction and superiority in their otherwise inferior lives.

>> No.19039342 [DELETED] 

>>19039114
>with annotations and commentary from the world's foremost literary society
If they're not even willing to put their name on the damn cover I'm thinking they're probably not the foremost...

>> No.19039348

you can skip whatever you want

>> No.19039366

>>19039194
>>Melville admits that he can't write and his novel was trash
based. did he actually say this?

>> No.19039579

>>19037676
Mutts will never read Moby Dick for the first time as an adult without knowing any major plot elements.
t. bong

>> No.19039686

>>19039109
I've read plenty of classics and didn't get filtered

>>19039114
Thanks, I'll look into this.

>> No.19039688

>>19039143
are you fucking retarded?

>> No.19040038

>>19039686
I hope you're joking that cringe he told you to buy is a /lit/ commentary full of memes
it's the cringiest thing ever created on earth.

>> No.19040079

>>19039177
White supremacy is not a vibe.

>> No.19040531

>"Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, upon which my soul is grooved to run. Through the rifled hearts of mountains, over unsounded gorges, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush. Naught's an obstacle, Naught's an angle to the iron way!"

>> No.19040598

Just gonna post a couple favorite dog-eared bits.

>Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes, and the miserman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps, and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it, and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought..."

>O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not an atom stirs or lives in matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

>> No.19040638

>>19040598
Pip is by far my favorite character in the book
>called a coward here, hailed a hero there!

>> No.19040666

>Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare’s? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel’s great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.—Why then do you try to “enlarge” your mind? Subtilize it.