Read something simpler first and work out those literacy muscles. If you're falling asleep every chapter, you're not ready.

>>25411336
The whales name is Herman?

>>25411336
I read this for the first time recently and also had that issue for the first hundred pages or so. I kept falling asleep because I mainly read after dark and because I think the tone of the book just sort of lulls you. As it goes on it does get more engaging and harder to put down. >>25411339 might be right though. If that's the case don't feel too bad
>>25411521
lol

>>25412014
>As it goes on it does get more engaging and harder to put down
Well okay, I guess I'll keep going. I'm at the chapter where Ishmael is attending Church service on Sunday, about Chapter 9.

>>25411336
stop reading so fast. read aloud, it will force you to slow down.

>>25411336
Just read a chapter every night in bed. Then going to sleep after it will be fine.

>>25411336
You have to drink water, a bottle or two of water

>>25411339
FPBP, Moby-Dick isn’t a particularly challenging read so it won’t take you too long to get to this point as well
>>25411521
Good whale name tbqdesuwy

>>25412215
seconding this. Melville's prose is incredible and you will really appreciate it if you read it in rhythm. and don't rush with MD, the plot is far from the central focus here, read for the prose and Ishmael's musings on everything under the sun, it's honestly amazing how much philosophy you can get out of a chapter describing Ishmael weaving a mat or Ishmael holding a rope to keep Queequeg from drowning while he's cutting up a whale on the sea or the whiteness of the whale or whatever.

>>25413956
>Whiteness of the Whale
Most convincing essay I’ve ever read. Every time someone says “white symbolises purity,” I think of the utter savagery of the polar bear…

>>25411336
read it at bed time and dont worry about it

>>25414293
[Obviously paraphrasing this wonderful section]: Nature is a harlot painter, facetiously covering the brutality of the whiteness with colours to fool us into seeing something there. When in reality there the whiteness represents annihilation.

Do you think this contrasts with Ahab's position? Ahab mentions that the whale is a mask, that its whiteness seems to be a mask. And like all masks, it is hiding something, the true essence beneath it. The whiteness of Moby dick is this mask, and in his quest to kill it, he believes he will attain what is real and destroy that which is blocking him from attaining it.

Ishmael seems to say that, on the contrary, whiteness IS what is underneath, and in fact, the colours are the mask. Underneath it all is no meaning, it is rather annihilation (perhaps quite atheistic for the rather christian Ishmael -- so maybe it's getting him to question his faith).

>white whale bad
>white bad
>kill whale

i can see why this is popular.

>>25411336
>christcucks ruining yet another book by making it about their brainwashing regilion

Sad. Tired of those selfcentered assholes claiming every peace of media

>>25411521
i laughed

the book is a snoozefest. Was more interesting learning while reading it that general motors used whale oil as transmission fluid up until 1972. so the book holds more value knowing whaling was actually a huge industry back then especially. it's there will be blood but whale oil.

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>>25413956
There’s a section of chapter 93 I really love when pip is lost at sea then driven mad, I think it’s not discussed enough.
>But it so happened, that those boats, without seeing Pip, suddenly spying whales close to them on one side, turned, and gave chase; and Stubb’s boat was now so far away, and he and all his crew so intent upon his fish, that Pip’s ringed horizon began to expand around him miserably. By the merest chance the ship itself at last rescued him; but from that hour the little negro went about the deck an idiot; such, at least, they said he was. The sea had leeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
I think Melville is at least in part describing the process of the universe and how mankind’s understanding has grown with time, the firmament of waters being the ancient domed understanding of the cosmos and the colossal orbs being the heliocentric view of cosmology with multiple worlds. The coral insects might be human brains

>>25411336
Stop skipping your insulin injections, lazy fatass.