If you had to choose one, which one would you pick? Why?
Endless prose about nature or endless info dumping of whale hunting facts.
I'd rather end myself.
>>7443326
Not to be that guy, but whaddya mean by choose? Choose one to exist and the other not to? One to take with me to a desert island? One to say 'this one is of better aesthetic quality than the other?'
I mean, they're important for different reasons, I like them for different reasons...
the Dick that is Moby
because: less hobbitses
Moby Dick for the romance
>>7443336
If those meme complaints are t all you got you out of those books...you havent read those books.
Thanks for offering to help but we've got this, thanks.
moby dick
>>7443343
cute
>>7443352
>implying LOTR isn't the ultimate slash fic
>>7443326
Evil is subtle.
There is no Whale.
There is no Sauron.
Evil is ethereal, ephemeral, eternal.
Kill Trump and there will be a thousand more.
>>7443340
If you could only have read one, which one?
>>7443326
As much as I like Tolkien, I love Moby-Dick and Melville so much more. It should be pretty obvious.who here /survivedtheblackout/?
>>7443326
Probably Tolkien because of the religious content (which i am fond of).
>>7443326
There are probably only 10~15 anons here who have read both.
>>7443455
I read them both. i havent read Tolken in 20 years tho. I read MD for the second time last month.
It's fucking metal.
>>7443326
Not even a question: Moby-Dick: it's beautifully written and deep and insightful, and it helped establish, by a delayed reaction, America as a literary superpower.