I’m sorry, but there is no book better than Moby-Dick

I’m sorry, but there is no book better than Moby-Dick.

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I can see why a gay guy would think like that.

>finally got translated
very nice

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Maybe so, but there is finer literature to be found in tablets, scrolls, and papyrus sheets.

Wow! Totes btfo!

*SNNIIIIIIFFFFFFFF*

What about The Whale by Melville? That was better.

The first and last 3rd are GOAT, but the encyclopedic chapters in the middle really bogged it down in my opinion

There are better books, but it's a fine choice for favorite.

Really? I agree that the beginning and the end are amazing, but I didn’t find the middle to be all that tiresome. Kinda just the standard middle part of any book; some exciting parts, a little boring at some points but necessary. With a touch of Cetology added, of course.

What are your favorites? Not asking in an antagonizing way, genuinely curious.

My Top 5 favorites right now are:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gravity's Rainbow
Light in August
Infinite Jest
Book of the New Sun

False. The middle third of Moby Dick is loaded with kino chapters

“Midnight, Forecastle”
“The Whiteness of the Whale”
“The Hyena”
“The Town-Ho’s Story”
“The Line”
“The Sphynx”
“The Prairie”
“The Honor and Glory of Whaling”
“The Fountain”
“The Tail”
“The Grand Armada”
“The Try-Works”

Among others of course. One of the best chapters in Moby-Dick, “The Doubloon” comes when there are still 30+ chapters left.

Stubb’s Supper also comes to mind

the encyclopedic middle chapters comprise the essence of what Elevates Moby Dick in the first place

>Book of the New Sun
Your opinions are invalid, sword and sorcery retard.

I love that scene. Why does he threaten to devour the entire whale and make the cook watch him in the middle of the night? The mad lad

I grant truth to your inference

brave statement OP, going against the grain

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Stubb does a complete 180 on his character in that chapter and I fuckin love it, but I feel like he was just heavy bantering rather than antagonizing

I agree with the substance of this post, but Ahab as a character is what really takes it over the top. And the imagery is perhaps the best in western lit

>have to be controversial to be a thread
>can’t just discuss a widely read, extremely good book

I’d just be glad it’s not another “no gf doomer” thread

anybody read his esoteric later stuff like Pierre or The Confidence Man? Heard it's very very good and very very bizarre, both of them. Any anons want to chime in here?

Adding Billy Budd to your post