Moby Dick
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What makes this good literature?
Whales are fucking sick, and any whale-related media is golden by default.
>>8155629
correct
>>8155623
The accurate digressions about whaling culture of the 19th century.
It's my favorite book of any I've read because it seems to encompass as much of the human condition as any other work of art I've encountered
It's a varied and insightful look into a very fascinating area of history, as well as being a compelling examination of numerous faculties of the human condition, including man's relationship with his fellow man, and his at times irrational lust for revenge.
>>8155623
>What makes this good literature?
The romance
>>8155623
Newfacg here..What's the best publication? I don't want to read an abridged version. Thanks.
>>8157724
wordsworth classics - with endnotes
>>8157724
There are abridged versions of Moby Dick? That might actually improve things. You're not talking about Illustrated Classics are you?
>>8155623
Dear OP,
stop spamming this book and just finish it, please.
>>8157821
>Illustrated Classics
I read my copy so many times from like 2nd grade on it fell apart
For me its the road to perdition. After the first time you read it you know what is coming, and it feels like an inevitable slide to doom. Not only that but Ahab's will is such that it enslaves everyone else he touches and makes his doom theirs. Dunno if you would call this "theme", but there it is. In addition, the character development and interplay of Starbuck, Ahab, Fedallah, the mates and harpooners mixed with the detachment of Ishmael is very very good.
Also
>>8155629
>>8156722
>>8156970
>human condition
please elaborate
YOU'RE A FUCKING WHITE WHALE
>>8157995
Nice
Because it can be applied as a metaphor for tons of aspect of everyday life.
>>8158035
I was thinking about this comic the other day and how if it were done now it'd just be in the style of nigger twitter or just simply typed with some "memes" to go along with it.
What a disappointing world we live in.
>>8157995
audibly kek'd.
>>8158369
shut the fuck up
no discernable contribution to the thread
>Start reading Moby Dick
>Expect the high-intensity content of a Mastodon album coupled with rich, timeless prose
>Get some fag and his diary about having slumber parties with Queequeg
>/lit/'s memed me yet again
>>8158369
the prose is SO FUCKING GOOD
>>8158564
>every book needs to be le epic adventure to fulfill my autistic hunger for escapism
pick another medium pal
>>8158564
>high-intensity content of a Mastodon album coupled with rich, timeless prose
that's exactly what you get, though, and much more, just not in the autistic sense you're expecting to get it
>>8158564
Sci-fi and fantasy kids should just stick to their young adult adventure novels.
Wait isn't Moby Dick a shitty adventure meme book for 6 years old?
have I read a shitty kid version?
>>8158723
Stop dipping in between the heads of Locke and Kant and actually read it.
>>8158728
>It's actually a real book with 600+ pages
wtf
>>8155623
Prose. Other than that it's mediocre.
>>8158736
Maybe if you'd stop ruminating in the honeyed thoughts of Plato you'd move on to real things.
>>8157825
I did, that's why I made this thread
>>8158723
I'm not sure if you're joking anon, but this is what I unironically believed a couple of years ago. I wasn't really that big into literature and I thought Moby-Dick was some kids adventure book.
>>8158542
Suck my Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville.
Would have been better if it kept its original title 'Whale, What is it Good for?
>>8159639
I thought it was "Whale, Whale, Whale, We Meet Again"
>>8158369
i don't think people who listen to Mastodon make comics using nigger twitter type jokes
>>8159639
kek
>>8158572
This. Fucking Shakespeare tier
>>8155629
This and this only
>>8159778
Shakespeare didn't write prose.
Why does Kojima think that Moby Dick is literally Bible? He fetishises whales more than tumblr does.
>>8159897
In my opinion, all writers write prose.
>>8159906
Kek'd.
>>8159919
I'd beat your fucking ass for that opinion.
>>8159998
I read all poems as if they were prose unless there is a basic and obvious rhyming scheme because I am very unsophisticated.
>>8160005
>Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple,
>Who have faith in God and Nature,
>Who believe that in all ages
>Every human heart is human,
>That in even savage bosoms
>There are longings, yearnings, strivings
>For the good they comprehend not,
>That the feeble hands and helpless,
>Groping blindly in the darkness,
>Touch God's right hand in that darkness
>And are lifted up and strengthened;--
>Listen to this simple story,
>To this Song of Hiawatha!
>>8155629
Hi Ishmael
>>8159897
yes he did. have you ever read a Shakespeare play, you fucking retard?
>>8161804
I feel bad for the piss poor high school education that didn't teach you about how Shakespeare's dialogue was written in a little something called iambic pentameter.
>>8161806
the majority of it is in blank verse, yes, but he frequently switches to prose. King Lear Act 1 Scene 1 literally begins in prose, you idiot.
>>8161833
Okay, I'll concede that small portions of his plays contained regular prose. Anon's implication was that prose is what Shakespeare excelled in, that was the opinion I was combating.
>>8161839
dolt
Melville is a beautiful prose writer and he was able to capture the essence of American culture pretty much perfectly and to the extent that the novel still gives insights into what it's like to be an American today as well as in the 1700/1800s.
>>8159906
All japanese people have a hard on for anything related to whale murder
>>8157679
so did they bang or what?
