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My exvangelical little self doesn't remember Adam and Eve getting it on in the Garden of Eden!

*Sympathy for the Devil plays softly in the background*

Continuing my theme of men on ill-advised journeys in the 1800s.

People who act like I'm overblowing it when I say this book is gay as hell need to read the chapter about wanting to squeeze other men's hands in a big vat of whale forever and then get back to me.

I switched to ebook for awhile, and now I’ve switched to audio. I WILL finish this book!

Seriously considering taking this book with me to a Halloween party tonight because I cannot bear the thought of having to wait until tomorrow or later to finish it.

Unspeakably rude of this book to be so mysterious and so good when I have to work.

I am begging this bitch to download Duolingo.

There is a lot of "oh no this poor hot man with his horrible dumpy harpy of a wife" going on in this book.

The movie trailer got me. I need to know what happens.

I’m imagining the old man as Mr. Johnson from Abbott Elementary.

"Take it like the good little blood slut you are." I'm afraid that this book is absolutely My Thing...

I’m pretty sure that what I just read is not physically possible without several injuries.

I just wanna read something trashy for Halloween 🎃

“Of erections, how few are domed like St. Peter’s!” And then a few paragraphs later, references to Cock-Lane and Dr. Johnson. I am not mature enough for this.

Halfway!!

Honestly? I’m Team Whale. 🐳

Oh, okay, we’re doing Shakespeare.

My eighth grade teacher, who unsuccessfully tried to convince me to read Moby Dick back then, told me to skip the Cetology chapter. Glad that I ignored the advice, because that chapter is hilarious.

We finally actually see Ahab. From a distance. And he almost smiles (at least, he makes a facial expression that in another man would have been the beginning of a smile. lmao).

Ishmael and Queequeg forever

No one told me how gay this book is!

Starting Moby Dick right after reading Blood Meridian was a great strategy, because I'm finding the prose so straightforward and easy. No one told me Melville had puns!

Found An Evening Redness and spent hours tonight reading with that perfect soundtrack playing in the background.

I'm turning into one of those guys who's obsessed with this book and spends a lot of time on Reddit about it, which is bad because I've spoiled a major plot point for myself.

To be honest, this just makes me want to go rewatch The Vampire Lovers and be done with it.