Moby Dick

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ballbaby · 28/12/2006 20:34

Am about 1/8th of the way through this book and am finding it really hard going - but have found that some of my favourite books are hard to get into. Shall I persevere? [one good point - i sometimes suffer from insomnia and it is really helping!]

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expatinscotland · 28/12/2006 20:36

I had to persevere, as it was on the reading list for a class I took at university.

It is worth it, but it is very slow going indeed, at the outset.

Have they left Nantucket yet?

sfxmum · 28/12/2006 20:38

i really liked it, its quite poetic at times
but i did struggle with all the blubber talk

expatinscotland · 28/12/2006 20:39

It's very allegorical.

FWIW, the coffeshops, Starbuck's, are named after the one and only Starbuck in the book!

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ballbaby · 28/12/2006 20:46

They've only just left Nantucket - and Queenqueg has saved someone - I think - I'm not always quite understanding what's going on! Do like the queenqueg character. Will carry on for a while longer.

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