As with the Iliad, which I love for the same reasons (eye-burning splendour of language, relish of brutality, tenderness beyond tenderness), the most overlooked bits are the jokes.
This might be the best review of both of these books I've ever read.
Aw thanks a bunch.
It reads like a very long, very one-sided conversation with somebody you come to understand is insane but only after the point where you want to kn...
I chuckled out loud almost as much as I stopped to reread a paragraph aloud to myself in awe of the language. Obviously many consider this to be th...
What insight can I possibly give on Moby Dick? Moby Dick is a huge book: always sweeping between the most general and philosophic all the way down ...
Reading this rn! Queequeg rules.
So pleased for you. It's my fave novel. Seeing it was what RSBookClub was reading atm reminded me to review it. I read it aloud to my wife (who'd never read it) earlier this year and it was just the best time. Digging the Bloom PFP.
Lol how did reading it aloud to your wife go? Hard to imagine how the chapter about cetology was received.
She liked it but needed to take it in in small bites. "Pig-fish" is now one of my pet names for her after we read it in that chapter.