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Anonymous Fri Dec 15 06:16:14 2023 No.22830110 [Reply] [Original]

What's so special about this book? Why do a lot of people considered this as their favorite and the greatest book of all-time?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 08:06:27 2023 No.22830264 excellent prose, thoughtful, all the subtext you want, a bit of humour, and an overall hypnotic and dreamlike atmosphere

>>	Illurk Fri Dec 15 09:34:04 2023 No.22830421 >>22830110 >Ye be, be ye?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 12:09:49 2023 No.22830720 Boats

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 12:29:51 2023 No.22830765 >>22830110 Because they are retards. I never managed to finish this book and I every time I see it I think about finishing it but then I open it to some random page and am immediately disappointed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 12:36:34 2023 No.22830777 >>22830765 you're supposed to read the pages in ascending order

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 14:06:45 2023 No.22830944 >>22830777 I did for the first 400 pages, it's still mediocre. The only good thing about it is I found the style kind of funny but if I want that kind of thing I'll just read Tristram Shandy or Don Quixote or any of the million books like that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 14:47:34 2023 No.22831070 >>22830765 >calling others retards >can’t finish a book. Jej. Filtered. Stick with Dr. Seuss, kid.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 14:51:57 2023 No.22831085 >>22830110 Boats Whales God Also the ending is the best part. If you're an addle brained dumbass who can't finish a relatively short novel, wait a few years and try again

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 14:53:44 2023 No.22831089 >>22831070 >”won’t” = can’t” You need to go back ti the basics yourself

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 14:57:30 2023 No.22831106 >>22830944 >Don Quixote simpleton detected

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 15:22:27 2023 No.22831162 >>22830765 >they are retards >I can't finish a book

Anonymous Fri Dec 15 21:41:36 2023 No.22832343

>>22830110
This book is the living embodiment of “Instead of pandering to what the 90% will like, I’ll make a book that only the 10% will like, because I am in that 10%”

It really challenged what I believed literature was, I am grateful for that. The actual narrative is besides the point, if you just want a really long story then read Anna Karenina or Game of Thrones.

Read Moby Dick (or more accurately attempt to read it) if you want something that’s just completely different.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 15 22:11:17 2023 No.22832418 >>22830944 The book is only 400 pages long...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 00:33:06 2023 No.22832807 >>22830110 >What's so special about this book? It's the first book that ever made me cry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 02:02:36 2023 No.22833031 >>22830110 The prose is effortless and a joy to read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 02:56:21 2023 No.22833111 >>22830765 If you can't finish a book you don't like then you aren't cut out for reading lit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 04:49:37 2023 No.22833360 >>22830110 They are all npcs that saw it one too many times topping the charts here. That's literally it.

Anonymous Sat Dec 16 05:53:24 2023 No.22833493

>>22830110
I think its honestly just because it's good, without any necessary qualifier. Moby Dick is just good the whole way through. It's dense, but not painful or laborious, it's fun to read. If I want to read a book that will make me think without making it a chore, Moby Dick is a top contender.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 06:16:03 2023 No.22833522 the whale facts are cool, everything else is dogshit

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 08:08:48 2023 No.22833738 >>22833522 smark ignored

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 09:36:04 2023 No.22833872 >>22830720 This desu I'll never forget discovering they peel the whales like apples

Anonymous Sat Dec 16 12:11:35 2023 No.22834145

fellow moby dickchads, I've been wondering something
I (and I think many others who have actually read but also appreciate the book) see it as an ode to human excellence, as well as a surmising on humanity's place in the universe. The diversity of the crew, the different waters they course, the constant metaphors and references to myth, religion as well as art and philosophy add to my belief of this.

What I am wondering is if whaling, for Melville, was just the medium he chose to put all his ideas through, because it's what he knew, having worked as a whaler himself. If he had been a fur trapper, would Moby Dick have been a white bear?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 23:06:44 2023 No.22836125 File: 51 KB, 285x350, IMG_3372.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Idk, I played picrel and thought “geez whaling is so fascinating, why hasn’t more media used it as a… Oh wait a minute”

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 16 23:08:02 2023 No.22836129 >>22834145 No, trapping isn’t as cool as whaling. But if he had been a trapper he could not have written such a great whaling book.

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