I had only "read" an abridged version of Moby Dick in high school 15+ years ago. Have had a (real) version on my shelf for years now, somewhat saving it for who knows what. After engaging with serious literature for nearly 10 years now, I was immensely excited to get into this true American classic. This pinnacle of literature that uncovers unspoken truths about our human condition, struggle, and retribution.>mfw it's another noble savage novel. Europeans are the true savages also idiots compared to natives. Also, our religion is just like, stupid, yaknow? Also Queerqueg is hot, I want to make it clear to the reader he is VERY handsome and muscular despite his rough exteriorBravo Melville. You would have made an excellent writer for Netflix had you been born a millennial
Uh-oh, you criticized /lit/'s favorite book
you didn't earn your high school diploma and you should stick to video gaming and anime
>>25509774This is the reason why it was forgotten in its time and found popular resurgance after the author's death. It just took time for commies to organise around it. Not that they will laud it for those themes, they are much too sneaky for that.
>>25509774genuinely retarded, Moby-Dick filters another moron
>>25509774Enjoy the prose and move on faggo
>>25509914To be honest… I think I’m not faggot enough to enjoy it, that’s the problem. And I love dense prose; Absalom, Absalom is one of my favorite books for example. But his moralizing is cringe-worthy. Dickens at least had the decency to be funny (and interesting) with his
>>25509927>moralizingWhere? cite chapter idiot
>>25510328All the introductory chapters involving Queerqueg are noble savage posturing. Very blatantly so. I’m not sure what you’re confused about>why would white man laugh at my when they are idiots and don’t understand our rituals>saves drowning country bumpkin who was mocking him just earlier and is hero of the schooner >is in successive line of brave, fearless kings He even goes as far as proclaiming the Nantucket natives as the true conquerors of all the seas and therefore having the most expansive kingdom in the world. It’s eye roll leftist garbage
>>25509774You're projecting 2020s culture war politics onto a man who lived a century and a half ago, and more importantly you haven't even gotten past the first few chapters.
>>25509774Chapter 58 was where it peaked for me.>For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!Maybe skip the book and play the video game instead?
>>25510608But he wrote this at the tail end of the American Indian war. It would be akin to someone gushing over a cartel member today, giving him zero negative qualities (and also making him very sexy [and genteel])
>>25511112>baddies can't be sexy
