James’s Reviews > Moby-Dick or, The Whale > Status Update
James
is 33% done
Why did I read Gravity's Rainbow twice and Ulysses once before reading this? Worried that I will run out of steam with this one like I did with those, but this is clearly the influence on every big book from the last ~175 years.
— Nov 25, 2023 10:42AM
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James
is 99% done
I finished it, I'm just reading it again because it's so good (and also so I can add it to my reading challenge for next year)
— Dec 14, 2023 07:58AM
James
is 66% done
Yeah, this is starting to lag...though "A Squeeze of the Hand" is one of the greatest chapters in all of literature.
— Dec 06, 2023 11:47AM
James
is 33% done
Though in many natural objects, whiteness...enhances beauty...and though this...applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe...yet for all these...associations, with whatever is sweet, and honorable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.
— Nov 25, 2023 10:40AM
