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Gave up on a 'classic' after 47 pages last night
It was Moby Dick, and I just couldn't get past the whole chapter on whale blubber. Has anyone else bailed on a supposedly great book that felt like homework?
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william32016d ago
Always figured that book was really just a really long whale fact.
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sage_rodriguez15d ago
It actually clicked for me once I stopped treating it like a story and more like a meditation on obsession. The blubber chapter felt tedious, but that's kind of the point - it's supposed to feel like you're stuck on that ship with nothing else to do but think about whales.
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