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

Here we go. The only time I’ve ever felt this particular way about an ending before is climax of I Am Also Thy Brother.

WORK is making me do my stupid JOB as if Ahab doesn't have Moby Dick directly under his boat as we speak.

Ahab is so, so close to calling it quits and he just can’t bring himself to do it. I keep hoping he’ll change his mind even though everyone knows he chases Moby Dick to his death.

We've hit the point of no return. God, I love a tragedy.

Obviously the hearse of wood is going to be Queequeg's coffin and the death by hemp is going to be the rope Ahab attached to his new harpoon.

This book is so good that I want everyone I know to read it, but of course I cannot, because "Hey, read this dense, 175-year old book that's 550 pages minimum, depending on your version" just isn't something you can reasonably ask of people.

Chapter 96, I meant, The Try-works.

Chapter 97 is my favorite yet, especially of the philosophical chapters.

I’ve got the longest chapters out of the way, so it should be pretty smooth sailing from here on out. Really glad to finally be reading this one.

Ishmael is now applying phrenology to a whale.