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Oh what an amazingly complicated book. Even though I thought I'd be different from everyone else and be able to withstand the long and arduous description chapters of the particulars of whaling, I, too, succumbed to the boredom of them. However, the chapters that intermixed them were moving and charming and amusing and jaw dropping and silly and epic and educational and tense and sweet and hopeful and foreboding. The humour is absolutely fantastic and subtle, the not-so-subtle homoeroticism is provocative and greatly appreciated, and the philosophy of whaling and it applying to the general world was really fascinating to delve into. There are definitely many outlier chapters that I could read again and again, but the cream of the crop is definitely Chapter 36, where, almost completely out of nowhere, this prose book starts to tell its narrative in a wholly different medium.
P.S. The audiobook by Stewart Wills is definitely a must, his voices are divine. He's easily made Stubb my absolute favourite character.
P.S. The audiobook by Stewart Wills is definitely a must, his voices are divine. He's easily made Stubb my absolute favourite character.