Just bought it. What am I in for?

Just bought it. What am I in for?

Dense prose, thick as molasses, comedy, gay love, mocking philosophy, obsession, loss, rage, contempt, religion, and one of the greatest ensembles of letters and spaces to pass from human brain to paper.

About half of it is the best novel ever written

the best book ever written

>t. faggot that didn't squeeze his sperm properly, nor enjoyed the cetology chapter

Honestly one of the best books ever. Prime yourself by reading Paradise Lost and some Shakespeare first, though.

Try-Works best chapter. fite me.

The Symphony is the best chapter.

an overpriced novel. copies of moby dick are practically fat of the land. why would you pay for one?

You are in for a ride.

Imagine if Hugo wrote a novel about marine biology

kys for asking dumb fucking questions

You forgot capitalism

Nah there a not much of that in there

A whale of a good time...

you're going to get pleb filtered like half the brainlets on Veeky Forums

Brainlet here. What purpose did that chapter serve? What was I supposed to appreciate about it?

Where do I find a pdf ?

There was no message behind it; it was just flavor.

Herman thinks whales are cool

But I don't think whales are cool I just want my adventure story. Guess I'm just a pleb

show's over brainlet, get lost

>But I don't think whales are cool
Then why the fuck are you reading a novel about whaling?

Boredom

>think an animal is cool
>reading books specifically depicting murdering that animal in lurid detail

It's like someone who "doesn't like" gays reading a novel about the gay porn industry.

For the adventure, and the narrative is pretty cool so far.

>crew goes out on sea for economic reasons (except Ahab and Ishmael)
>gold doubloon
>all the nasty shit they have to do on board because of money

I think also the whale somehow represented capitalism and Ahabs vain tries to "defeat" it. And I'm not even a commie or anything.

you sound like a fucking commie
I don't think capitalism was really examined at all and only related to the soft anti-modernism in it. It's dirty to relate this to Moby Dick

The chapter was mocking the belief that the world's mysteries can ever be wholly understood empirically, or at all

Did you get to the part where Moby Dick kills Ahab by wrapping a rope around his neck and popping it off like a champagne cork?

Everything BUT whales!

shut the fuck up commie faggot

whales are fish if you disagree you don't understand moby dick and should get the fuck off my board

This

you will leave it on your shelf unread for months and eventually just pretend you've read it.

>I'm not a commie
Thats what a Commie would say