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This book is so good when it's not an unceasing dirge about whale anatomy

Veering closer and closer to *Peter Griffin voice* "oh my God who the hell cares" territory

When it comes to incorporating every sliver of research you did for you book, pacing be damned, Herman Melville swam so Victor Hugo could soar

mom can you pick me up i'm scared

"Everything everyone knows about whales is wrong." Source: Trust Me Bro

Every other scene in this makes me want to cryyyyyy I'm in this book and I don't like it!!!

Me: *reading the scene where Ahab stirs up his crew into a frenzy over hunting Moby-Dick, knowing this will lead to inevitable destruction and hubris*
Me: *remembers that Gregory Peck plays Ahab in the film adaptation*
Me: maybe :) we should hear him out :) hear what he has to say :)

Last night I watched a video about sperm whales and pray tell why were we hunting down the personification of God's Unstoppable Force

This language is GORGEOUS but boy howdy is she dense. Had to switch to an audiobook and am enjoying it so much more

Uh oh the words are speaking to my I'm About To Turn 30 Crisis!!!!!!!

Cannot emphasize enough how much I cannot read this at night because holy space out batman

Momentarily made a movement to rip this book in half

William Lyt you are on my list you better watch yourself

Waaaaaah being a man is hard waaaaaaah society revolves around me and rewards my violence waaaaaaah I feel peer pressure to be mean or a *man*, like PLEASE give me a reason to care while women are getting SA'd and threatened and abandoned. I 100% believe the contrast b/w these realities is part of the point Backman is trying to make but I'm really having trouble mustering empathy for these AWFUL men and boys

Do we need more characters serious question

My man Fredrik loves a description of an event that bleeds into a philosophical observation of human nature that re-grounds itself through a sentence of plot. It's been 62 pages and I think 7 seconds of the actual plot has occurred 😅

I believe in idiots in love trope supremacy

Not even a tenth of the way through and already thinking about what the literary world would look like if men didn't hate women so much????? Like not even hate, but just disregard entirely. The joy, talent, perspective, the *existence* of women is barely perceived by so many men throughout history ugh