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When does it get good?

>> No.21542538

>>21542524
"Call me Ishmael..."

>> No.21542549

>>21542538
Too much narration. Not enough plot. 14 chapters in so far.

>> No.21542570

>>21542524
I’m wondering that myself.
t. has read the first 33 chapters

>> No.21542633

>>21542538
fpbp

>> No.21542641

>>21542524
Mast head chpt 35

>> No.21542648

>>21542524
it gets progressively better at three distinct points
1. when they get on the boat
2. when they meet Ahab
3. when Pip goes insane

>> No.21542671
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21542671

Filtered.

>> No.21542673

>>21542524
>>21542549
>>21542570
It doesn’t
t. Read to like 400 pages before dropping it

This is one of the most overrated books in history. It’s kind of funny and that’s about it

>> No.21542711

>>21542524
Every time the story grinds to a halt because the narrator has to ramble about whales and whalehunting.

>> No.21542727

>>21542524
It's god-tier from the start and you've been filtered if you disagree.

>> No.21542728

>>21542538
It gets good with the first part about different whales before the first narratorial line.

>> No.21542731

It doesn't.Most shilled overrated book out there

>> No.21542738

>>21542728
Etymology and Extracts really is an underrated opening. Melville makes the main theme of the book clear from the start.

>> No.21542743

>>21542538
>>21542671
>>21542727
>>21542728
>>21542738
Virgins

>> No.21542757

>>21542524
i got filtered. Am i really supposed to know all those words? or am i supposed to read it with a dictionnary/google

>> No.21542928

>>21542731
Sorry, that's Blood Meridian.

>> No.21542934
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21542934

For me it’s the cuddling in bed scene

>> No.21542948

It's good from the first page. If you don't like it by a few chapters in you probably won't like it all. It isn't for everyone. I'm reading it for the first time now and I'm at chapter 60 I think. It is an incredible book. It's more about the prose than the plot for me. Although I am thoroughly enjoying learning about whaling.

>> No.21542965

>>21542948
>whaling
Is evil and illegal bigot

>> No.21543128

>>21542673
GTFO

>> No.21543139

>>21542673
kek I cant imagine how retarded you have to be to walk away from moby dick of all things with this experience

>> No.21543140

>>21543128
>>21543139
cope

>> No.21543153

>>21542948
>. It's more about the prose than the plot for me.
This.
>Although I am thoroughly enjoying learning about whaling.
And this.

>> No.21543209

>>21542934
Which annotated edition is this?

>> No.21543212

>>21543209
https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html?page=1&pageSize=4

>> No.21543253

>>21542524
some months after finishing it

>> No.21543362

>>21542711
Unironically true

>> No.21543465

>>21542641
>Over descartian vortices you hover.
Fantastic chapter

But the first chapter that absolutely blew me away was the Lee Shore.

>> No.21543518

>>21542934
A friend of mine asked the other day about reading Moby Dick, and I was about a tenth of a second from instinctively going over to my bookshelf and grabbing her this copy to lend. I would have been in quite the sour pickle had I picked it up and then had to fabricate some excuse for why I couldn't actually lend it to her.

>> No.21543535

>>21542538

Exactly.

>> No.21543610

>>21542524
When he talks about the biblical and mythical symbolism of the color white, just in case the reader is too stupid to get that the whale's strange color means something, but is still smart enough to understand ten solid nigh unreadable pages of obscure religious references.

>> No.21543697

Almost 100 pages into my first read of it. A lot gayer than I thought it would be.

>> No.21543852

>>21543212
>The distinguished scholars featured in this tome may disagree about the inner workings of the novel, but they can all agree that a whale is surely a fish.
fuck, FUCK is this real? if this is real it may be just what I need to finally read this book holy shit.

>> No.21543883

Call me narwhal

>> No.21544694

>>21543518
lol