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What book is currently on your nightstand? How do you like it? Would you recommend it to others?

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[-] Zaphodquixote@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You gotta treat Melville as an experience rather than looking at his works as discrete stories. He was a master at conveying experiential prose.

Those tangents are where he really shines. The whaling parts are the fluff.

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