Monica’s Reviews > Moby-Dick; or, the Whale > Status Update

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

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

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