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A review by anthofer
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
5.0
In lieu of a tweet-length review, I just wish I knew how much friendlier this was than the other Big Books of the canon. The short chapters are so elegant and varied and when something lags...you just skip it, or use Power Moby Dick to double check it. It's a great way to use the distraction machine in your pocket against itself.
The only friendlier Big Book that comes to mind is probably Middlemarch, or maybe Midnight's Children? Like those books, there's just an absolute joy in language here that is unmatched by 99.9999% of what you read, and allows for some total clunker pages to sit amongst the whole as monuments to my masochism towards Melville. By clunkers, I probably mean chapters where Ahab monologues, but I definitely don't mean "Cetalogy," which I utterly loved, and I definitely don't mean "A Squeeze of the Hand," which is one of the greatest chapters in all of literature.
The only friendlier Big Book that comes to mind is probably Middlemarch, or maybe Midnight's Children? Like those books, there's just an absolute joy in language here that is unmatched by 99.9999% of what you read, and allows for some total clunker pages to sit amongst the whole as monuments to my masochism towards Melville. By clunkers, I probably mean chapters where Ahab monologues, but I definitely don't mean "Cetalogy," which I utterly loved, and I definitely don't mean "A Squeeze of the Hand," which is one of the greatest chapters in all of literature.