In exciting news, I finished reading Moby Dick last week, an incredibly long, weird, dense, funny, kinda pretentious book that reads like King Lear if King Lear did weird, multi-chapter Patrick Bateman asides about cetology and how to boil whale blubber.
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It's totally wild. I keep thinking it would be completely unlikely that someone wrote a whole book about whaling if Moby Dick didn't exist. You can see why it's kind of a template for The Great American Novel.
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I started reading it years ago - and stopped, because it's so dense in sections - because of this amazing Clickhole joke:https://clickhole.com/the-time-i-spent-on-a-commercial-whaling-ship-totally-c-1825124286/ …
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I loved how weird that opening is. So funny. And once I got the joke, I really wanted to read Moby Dick. And this year, I listened to the start of
@mobydickenergy and it reminded me why I'd enjoyed the book. Anyway, it's 663 pages, but I didn't have a lot on (hire me!).2 vastausta 0 uudelleentwiittausta 5 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
One thing that I haven't mentioned is that it was written in 1851, so it's attitudes to nonwhite - and nonChristian - people feels dated at best. I think the author, through Ishmael and the other characters, is trying to present the world as diverse and peoples' strangeness as...
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...not making them less human? There's a lot of sort of actively piercing a veil of exoticism. And some places where he doesn't at all. I don't know how others feel, but I find myself "reading around" these views and presentations. Like un-suspending my disbelief in places.
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Maybe it should make it hard or impossible to read these books. For me it more makes me sidestep or commit less to parts of the worldview of the book. I guess there's a different line for different people.
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And on the other hand, it does try to represent lots of nonwhite and non-Christian people, and I don't think solely to highlight the value or character or w/e of the white Christian chars. There's also not many women it, and while that's probs accurate, might not be your thing.
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Some of you are probably wondering why I'm offering my opinions on a book you probably read in school, to which I reply "they made you read this in school?!???!"
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As if, you have time to study Bartleby the Scrivener in school but not Moby Dick.
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I only did GCSE so I got Macbeth and fucken Steinbeck
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Fucken Grapes of Wrath, kill me now. Handmaid’s Tale was worse at A Level along with curséd 1984, but at least we had Doctor Faustus which slaps.
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