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Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
I remember loving the children's version of Moby Dick, so I was a bit wary when it came to reading it for I was afraid I'd be left disappointed. I didn't love it, but I liked it. It was a pretty neutral read.
What was slowing the experience down was the amount of "unrelated" scientific data on the whales and the reasons why they were hunted that was talked about extensively. When the story was actually moving somewhere, it was a pretty pleasant experience, the ending especially hit me quite hard.
Now having also read Moby Dick and knowing the story that inspired it, I can definitely see correlations between it without just saying 'oh, they were all hunting for whales'.
The biggest surprise, however, was the pretty obvious gay relationship. I don't care if scholars and upstuck people say that they were just best friends, the two men were described to lie in bed together as man and wife with their legs intertwined and foreheads pressed together.
I gotta say that I definitely expected it to be worse. I expected lengthier and never-ending Ahab's speeches, like in Frankstein when the Creature's describing the family he was observing for some time. Of course, this was still written in the 19th century, but I would say it's one of those books that are proof how well some of the classics really are.
What was slowing the experience down was the amount of "unrelated" scientific data on the whales and the reasons why they were hunted that was talked about extensively. When the story was actually moving somewhere, it was a pretty pleasant experience, the ending especially hit me quite hard.
Now having also read Moby Dick and knowing the story that inspired it, I can definitely see correlations between it without just saying 'oh, they were all hunting for whales'.
The biggest surprise, however, was the pretty obvious gay relationship. I don't care if scholars and upstuck people say that they were just best friends, the two men were described to lie in bed together as man and wife with their legs intertwined and foreheads pressed together.
I gotta say that I definitely expected it to be worse. I expected lengthier and never-ending Ahab's speeches, like in Frankstein when the Creature's describing the family he was observing for some time. Of course, this was still written in the 19th century, but I would say it's one of those books that are proof how well some of the classics really are.