/lit/ - Literature

>can’t handle a few thousand whale facts

>>17212260
Just persevere. Not because it gets better, but just to have gave the book a legitimate chance. It's quite like cock and ball torture - not everyone's into it, but the ones that are really enjoy it.

>>17212260
Just skim

>>17212260
Its a garbage book that is memed to prank normies into reading a homosexual softcore story

It still boggles my mind how some boring shit like Moby Dick makes the top spot in the 100 books list.

>>17212531
>>17212948
filtered

>>17212260
Get filtered. Whale facts are awesome and makes the book feel complete desu

>>17212260
The book is an experience. You read it until you spend every moment of your day thinking about whales and then you can understand the madness and futility of life

>>17212974
>That tripfag
>Listening to the opinion of a surrogate male that hates women out of being rejected by them

Kek

>>17213137
>Doesn't know the difference between tripfag and namefag
I may not hate women like that guy but whale facts are badass

no one has answered his question yet. Since he dosnt think the rest of the book will be good what should he do?

Just skim through the rest and read the chapters that seem interesting. There's one where Queequeg buys a coffin because he thinks it's a canoe.

>>17213177
Just skip the chapters about whale facts, duh.

Moby Dick is one of those books that because no sane person would want to read all of it, pseuds claim it's 2deep4u and that you're filtered.

>>17213230
I already spend a lot of time reading wikipedia articles about animals, those sections are just wiki articles

>>17213223
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
>WHY DID YOU TELL ME???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>17212260
I still don’t understand how people can read this and only see the whaling information at the most surface level rather than noticing anything thematic. Oh wait, it’s because >80% of “readers” skim read everything like racking up book counts is what matters and barely stop to think about or understand what they’re reading. The book is about multiplicity of perspective and the unknowability of the nature of reality/God/the universe, the best section of the book is the portion with the least narrative between the whiteness of the whale (the best and most important chapter in the book) and The Fossil Whale (after which the narrative becomes more central again).
>>17213230
People who read Moby-Dick abridged have not read Moby-Dick. The true narrative of the book is Ishmael’s exploration of being, not Ahabs revenge which is itself part of the former.
>2deep4u
Only retards think Moby-Dick is a difficult book to read into, stop speed-reading

>>17213171
No, they arent. They are retarded, creepy looking fatass creatures that spend their entire lives deep down in the dark abusing tiny life forms to sustain themselves, all so they can roam around yelling out autistic, ultrasonic screeches expressing how horny they are and how much they want to bang some Big Blue Whale Pussy

Back off.

>>17214382
>tfw you can never measure up to BBC (Big Blue-whale Cock)
>you just know