I've tried in the past and quit 40 pages in... This time I was determined. It wasn't easy. It seems as if I've been reading it for months. I took it along on my winter break, and couldn't find the time to read, nodded off during chapters or struggled through page after page of descriptions on the whaling lifestyle.
-But it's a classic!
So what? It's not the most entertaining book. I mean, come on, the whale isn't even sighted until page 576... the book ends with an epilogue on page 603. Ahab isn't even introduced until after over a hundred pages. Don't get me wrong some chapters flew by; short, and action-packed. Other chapters seemed to take days to read; short, unbelievably detailed and boring.
But now I can say I've read it. Good for me. I found the below quote interesting.
'There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.'
'There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.'
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Congratulations, you're one step closer to being a man ;)
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