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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
5.0

this was a book i thought i had to read, than decided of course i don't have to if i don't want to - and am i really going to spend so much time reading up on dry pages full of whalehunting facts? and then i did read it - or listened to it, mostly, and it was incredible.
at times incredibly engaging, dragging me along the whole adventurous journey. at times incredibly beautiful or profound. and sometimes just incredibly dumb and funny.