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Awful.
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Why pleb? Cut your fingers?
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>>7512414
His arms were too weak to hold the book up to read it, so he gave it up after the first 10 pages and came here to complain about it.
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>>7512422
Kid probably couldn't even pronounce QueeQueg when he subvocalized
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You're awful, get the fuck off /lit/
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>>7512396
bait
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>>7512429
kek
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>>7512396
I agree.
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>>7512567
>>7512878

I like it too, but you really can't see how some will find it needlessly tedious, autistic and even banal?
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>>7512396
People have died before finishing this experience-bait of a book and you know what? they didn't miss out on anything of value, they probably went to a better place without Starbucks.
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>>7513359
>Starbucks
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>>7513892
H-have you read the book?
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>>7512429
LMAO
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People don't realize op is using the original expression for the term awful which meant awe-inspiring. I agree op that is very awful book indeed!
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>>7512396
Ahab's lightning razor harpoon tempered in the blood of three men was pretty fucking metal.
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>>7512396
go read Tao Lin, maybe thats more easy for you
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>>7513922
Don't forget that he invoked Satan while doing it.
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>>7513916
Autism?
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>>7513892
>autist rage that Japan doesn't call it スタバクのコーヒー
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>>7513342
I can see how someone with no taste might think that.
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>>7512429
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Herman Melville in Moby Dick spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians. He said "I have an everlasting itch for things remote, I love to sail forbidden seas."
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hello reddit
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>>7512429
>born deaf
>tfw have no idea how words are supposed to sound
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>>7513342
It is tedious to the Atari generation.
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>>7515560

this is interesting
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>>7515560
are you fucking retarded?
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>>7512429
Literally joyously keked
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Shieeet
thats that edition from 1952 with the 300 pages of annotations
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>>7515560

This is silly.
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>>7512396
>Awful
that's code for: "I didn't understand/finish it"

stay pleb, whaler hater faggot
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>>7514398
Awetism*

Ftfy
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>this thread
Holy shit
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Fucking aussie shitposters
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Like Dickens, I had a hard time reading Moby Dick, primarily because of the old style language.
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>>7517705
(you)
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>>7512429
why is this so funny?
I'm laughing but I don't know why
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>>7512429
rekt
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>>7516318
No U
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>>7513905
Yes. Why?
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