Forrest’s Reviews > Moby Dick > Status Update

Just slowly sailing along, enjoying my reread.

I am enjoying the simple act of reading this time around. No need to analyze, contextualize, etc (though those things happen naturally). Having read the book once for analysis, now I just get to enjoy it. It's a feeling of reading freedom I haven't enjoyed for a while.

I had forgotten how utterly complex Ishmael is. One of the most thoroughly fleshed out characters - but only by narrative inference - in all of American literature.

I am no coward, but what to make of this head-peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.

Spotter and Coffin. I had missed that foreshadowing on first reading. Now it seems so obvious.

Second reading. This time a bit more slowly, with intent.