Moby Dick: bl velryba | 
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• Reading the tagged book🐳
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The unharming sharks, they glided by as if with padlocks on their mouths; the savage sea-hawks sailed with sheathed beaks. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
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This was not a favorite classic of mine, but it fits the prompt well, I believe
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#NewYearNewBooks #InvolvesJourney Can‘t remember if I finally read this last year or the year before.Though it can get a little deep on whale science, I was surprised how funny it was in parts.I read an old Bantam edition, may dig into this Norton Critical Edition someday to see what I missed on the first reading.
so-soI‘m going to be one of those people that appreciates the idea of the story and the theme of the maniacal, self-destructive quest, but wish to never read this again. I understand that Melville felt the need to expand the work by 70% with essays on whaling and whale anatomy and sailing and philosophy and that has its place, but I didn‘t care for it. After 300 pages, I just wanted this long slog to be over. But I was on team Dick, for sure.
pan15-25 Aug 23 (audiobook)
I do wonder how I managed to read so many of these long, somewhat tedious classics in my teen years. Maybe Moby Dick needs to be read in text format rather than listened to? I am not sure why I persisted to the end really. Old habits. Not so much a story as a treatise on whaling and a list of every time a whale is ever mentioned anywhere.
I do at least appreciate the anti-whaling and environmental sentiment.
so-soWho‘s the monster? Is there a monster at the end of the book? It kind of seems like Ishmael couldn‘t make up his mind, and didn‘t want to leave the reader too certain either.
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Damned with faint praise or a recognized talent?
Ah ha! I love it when a context-based hunch on unknown word's meaning pays off.
The internet confirms:
Anti-scorbutic: "(chiefly of a drug) having the effect of preventing or curing scurvy."
Fairly obvious why it's not in common usage today.
Please tell me I'm not the only person who read this and immediately imagined EITHER: a officious little fish in suit with briefcase OR some kind of strange paper/fish hybrid swimming about with scales and script intermingled.
No idea what a 'stem-piece' is, but intrigued by the notion that this might mean a mast head of a copper-thorned rose rather than the standard mermaid. [My very shallow knowledge on the subject says mast heads were usually mermaids - but maybe there were all kinds of masthead figures, like old-timey hood ornaments! Off to Google I go! ]
...for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
The notion 'cool as a cucumber' has been around for THAT long?! 🥒😲
Ah, yes, now let's take some time to pause the main narrative, AGAIN, and examine the appearance of the Whale in the various man-made art forms, and human-perceived whale forms appearing in nature. I can't help but wonder how long this book would be without these colourful asides. 💁🏼♂️
"...(for immortality is but ubiquity in time)..."
When the phrase just hits.
I feel like I better understand the exhaustion given to vampires in certain narratives now, the idea of always being...makes me want a nap.
Just remembered this is the song Quint sings...is it just a well known sailor ditty, or was Jaws making Moby-Dick reference?! 🤔
Current reads include two large books with whales on the cover. 🐳🐋
What could go wrong? 🤦🏼♂️
Sounds like a Shakespearean insult: 'Thou mealy-mouthed porpoise!'
"For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included."
Certainly more profound observations than I remember getting in high school biology text books.
Ah, yes, having just introduced the character best known in this book, twenty-eight chapters in, having just barely set sail, NOW is the time to pause for a lengthy treatise on the different kinds of WHALES! Oh, Herman. 🤦🏼♂️ Needless to say, the biology and taxonomy are not to be trusted. 🤨 What makes no sense? I'm actually enjoying all of it! 🤷🏼♂️🥴
Now y'all are just messing with me.
Any particular reason you couldn't have just made Chapter Twenty-Six longer, if you felt the same subtitle applied and were continuing to discuss the characters in the command structure aboard ship?!
So to summarize: You accepted a lower wage thanks to some fancy footwork on the part of your employers and you haven't actually MET your direct supervisor yet.
Not GOOD Ishmael!
Pfft. A choice way to prod the pious. 😈
How does one survive reading a classic from the 1800s? Focus on the cuddles.
[There are some amusing slices of life in amongst the frequent xenophobia/racism, prominent profiteering off species and blatant Christian messaging (the chapter before this one was entitled The Sermon, it was an ACTUAL sermon about Jonah and the Whale!) 😒🙄]
Gandalf is my reading buddy today for my daily Serial read. 🥰💛
Going to start a summer habit to get more classics read. Withering Heights and Scarlet Letter I‘ll finish in July. 🥰💛
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
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1) tough question. I bail on books that "don't spark joy" or let's say any kind of interest. The tagged book I had to read for uni. Definitely did not like it.
2) Colleen Hoover - skimmed one. No thanks.
Lord of the Rings - bailed before the Hobbits got to the Prancing Pony.
A Song of Ice and Fire - bailed after 200+pp, read like an endless prologue.
Secret History - I'm going to be exiled for this.
+So many more
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1. Tagged. Just no.
2. Anymore CoHo.
pickWow. After 4 months, I‘m finally done. I‘ve never taken this long to finish a book, but I‘m glad I took my time & annotated so thoroughly. D.H Lawrence was right, it is “one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.” 🌟5/5🌟
I don‘t finish every book I start. Some books I circle around and finish them eventually, but others I intentionally abandon.
The specific reasons might be varied (boring story, characters doing things that don‘t make sense, can‘t figure out what‘s going on, etc.) but usually boil down to I just don‘t care what happens.
#sundayfunday
Apologies for the terrible photo, new phone causing angst!
So, first up for 2023 is this classic, chosen by book club.
I've tried listening to it, some years ago, and failed. I'm now 30% through the kindle version and taking some of it in 🤔😁📖
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pickNo. 11 in my '22 Modern Classics reads. Haven't read this since high school, and I don't remember it being this long! But I thoroughly enjoyed it, even if by today's standards it's a bit of a muddle. Because of Thanksgiving holiday travel I compromised and listened to parts of the book through Librivox and can highly recommend their version narrated by Stewart Wills. But I think it's best read not listened to.
Full review: https://bit.ly/rvw-Moby
Moby Dick. And I don‘t really know why. Maybe to seem impressive? 😅
#SundayFunday How about you?
Stopped by Barnes and nobles cause today is the day I went full out in actually treating myself since that hasn't happened in literally months. The Moby dick copy is not only pretty but soooo heavy that it's a legit brick. Very pretty brick. Will post more about it cause omg! The others are also pretty! Like omg! xD
Started this whale of a book after a recent cruise to the channel islands.
#OnThisDay in 1851 Moby-Dick was first published. Like many works of art, the novel would remain unrecognized during Melville's lifetime, selling only 3715 copies and earning the author a mere $556.37 before his death in 1891. A posthumous reprint garnered some critical interest, and slowly a following was built, leading to Carl Van Doren's 1921 claim that Moby-Dick was "one of the greatest... in the... literature of the world." #HistoryGetsLIT
