Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.20116887]

I'm having trouble understanding this book. I literally cannot go more than 2 pages without completely losing the track of thought and having to re-read previous pages to understand what's being said. Even then, so much of it gets lost on me because it's almost as if the author chose to write in the most convoluted language possible.

Was I supposed to read something in advance before I got into this?

[Anonymous No.20116898]

>>20116887
>Tin Tin’s encounter with Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.20116901]

I'm surrounded by morans.

[Anonymous No.20116962]

Beg for a chart somewhere else or read one of those reading a book books

[Anonymous No.20117179]

>>20116887
Try reading it out loud, had the same problem, worked for me.

[Anonymous No.20117219]

if someone can't understand Moby Dick, Shakespeare or the King James they aren't worth thinking about

[Anonymous No.20117268]

>>20116887
>>Was I supposed to read something in advance before I got into this?
Moby Dick certainly shouldn't be the first ever book you try to read, if that's what you mean.

[Anonymous No.20117274]

>>20116887
>I literally cannot go more than 2 pages without completely losing the track of thought and having to re-read previous pages to understand what's being said.
Most of the time characters don't have a track of thought. They are rambling whalers. Don't be an autist, just enjoy the ride.

[Anonymous No.20117282]

>>20116887
If English is your first language, you should be getting into it after maybe a chapter or so, it just takes a little bit of getting used to, especially if it's the first work you read with this style of language.

[Anonymous No.20117288]

>>20116887
Don't expect to know what most books are about, two pages into them — especially if you are having difficulties understanding the language.

Also, I hope you read at least some other books before this point in your life, but if not, you have to start somewhere, I suppose.

[Anonymous No.20117292]

>>20116887
I was the same and now Moby Dick is my favorite book of all time

Just relax your mind and read. Don't expect to understand and analyze the book perfectly on your read.

Relax and allow the book to wash over you.

[Anonymous No.20117300]

>>20117292
Your first concern should be reading and enjoying it. Let your curiosity then guide you w/r/t/ analyses, references, allegories, all that.

pro tip: use powermobydick dot com if you're looking for a straightforward annotated version. But remember analyses don't matter if you don't enjoy what you're reading.

[Anonymous No.20118180]

>>20117179
that book deserves to be read aloud

[Anonymous No.20118349]

Just keep charging through and you will get used to the style in 50 pages or so and once that happens everything will click

[Anonymous No.20118442]

>>20116887

Don't waste your time with Moby Dick. It is written in the most convoluted unimagetic language ever, not to count the self-masturbatory essays about whales. Who gives a fuck about whales. Just tell me the story with clear language. Melville is the pinacle of bad taste.

[Anonymous No.20119273]

>>20117179
i sound out the prose under my breath cause i dont want my family hearing me read autistic whale descriptions in my autism voice but its p enjoyable

[Anonymous No.20119310]

>>20118442
Unfathomably filtered

[Anonymous No.20119356]

>>20118442
>Just tell me the story with clear language.
oh no, someone let the fantasy-shitters out of special school early

[Anonymous No.20119441]

>>20119310

If you are going to fry braincells trying to read something you are way better off with Ulysses, Shakespeare, Ada or Ardor, or whaever decent author that knows what structure and style are to mess with it, not sleeping-whale-pill-tranny-throbbing-stylistics-Melville. Look at this shit.

>All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil; to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.20119468]

>>20119441
>fry braincells
>shitwit plotfags find melville difficult to read
oh nonononono, imagine being both too soulless to enjoy melville, whilst also being so stupid that you find it difficult to read. If you aren't ESL then this is even more embarassing

[Anonymous No.20119488]

moby dick becomes a lot easier when you stop looking for the plot and just accept it as the ramblings of a guy who loves whales going off on flights of fancy of every aspect of whaling which also includes a plot as an extra bonus

[Anonymous No.20119973]

>>20116887
>I'm having trouble understanding this book
Bible. Hawthorne.