Any Discworld story could be told without the little asides on things like The Muntab Question or spending a few pages inventing magic quantum mechanics but those parts are great and I love Pondrer Stibbons.
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Moby Dick is a book about Melville being a weird dude whose life was all distorted and twisted and warped around this part of his life most people find horrifying and disgusting and scary -- his career of murdering beautiful creatures at sea and slicing off their fat to sell
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The book is a book about a man trying to make a human connection, to get you to understand this strange alien world that made up such a huge part of his life Geeking out at you about all the knots he learned to tie is one tactic The made-up story about Ahab's leg is another
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It's been a long time but I seem to remember you can make it a long way through that book before knowing it's about vengeance on a specific whale. Hell it was a dozen or so chapters before they even get on the ship.
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Until then it's all about Ishmael and Queequeg sleeping together and talking about how awesome sailing is.
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