Dan’s Reviews > Moby-Dick or, The Whale > Status Update

"My own opinion is, that however this one-sided horn may really be used by the Narwhale—however that may be—it would certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets."

I was dreading this chapter, but it's turning out to be my favorite one yet.

I’ve reached what appears to be one of your dreaded whaling chapters. Let’s see how this goes.

I see I have some of the dreaded whaling infodump chapters coming up, but in the meantime, I'm getting through this far more quickly than I expected. The language isn't even that difficult; Melville just uses a lot of allusions I'm unfamiliar with and loves those old-fashioned page-long paragraphs.

So far this is going more quickly than I anticipated.

This has been on my to-read for literal years. Obviously I’m like 1% through the book, so who knows how my feelings will develop, but so far this writing is a lot easier than I expected, and Ishmael is a very fun guy to be in the head of.