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Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
by Herman Melville
Personally I only like parts of the books like the beginning of Ishmael meeting Queequeg, and the cook preaching to the shark, hilarious scenes, and I can even get and enjoy bits of Melville’s humor and sarcasm here and there. I also like some of the Independent tales told Ishmael (or Melville?) as a narrator. However, as I approached the latter part of the book, it gets a bit repetitive and uneventful until the very end when they met Rachel. On the other hand, I also understand why this book is liked by other writers: it contains so many genres in one book, travelogue, naturalist writing, short play, poetry, folklores, action thriller, etc. I would have been jealous as a writer to see a peer can manage so many styles in one book. And to the end, I one hundred percent rooted for Moby Dick to win.