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I’m going to use the same exact words one of my great friends used to describe MD for me before I read it “Moby Dick is a slog. The first few chapters are interesting. But while he was writing it, Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote the Scarlett Letter. Hawthorne had a very boring writing style but Melville liked it, so the style of Moby Dick changes midway through the book and it becomes insufferable.”

Masterpiece but DANG I drag through those pages where he is yapping about whale technicalities……..