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.

"Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair."

I am in love with this line.

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.