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I have not read much lately but I'm worried that this is going to confirm a lot of my fears about retellings of classic stories where there is a LOT of namedropping of characters to recognize and then this main character is secretly connected to everything. I haven't read the Oddysey so I'm hoping I don't compare too much but I know a lot of the stories through other media. Hoping for a little more to hook me.

Pretty slow so far! Haven't been hooked yet

I think Mr Melville only fills this up with info dumping to give the reader a break from his writing because if it were just the story of Ahab and the crew it might be TOO good.

Herman just decides to put the best writing in this little two page chapter about the blacksmith who has had like 4 lines so far.

"Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored"

I'm learning much of whale anatomy 🐳

Perhaps there is some benefit to reading abridged versions of classics...

Just a lot of chapters on whaling terminology and encyclopedia entries. Perhaps beneficial to readers when it came out but I do not need all this non-fiction smack dab in the middle of a compelling story.