To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm about to start Blood Meridian this weekend as part of the bookclub.
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Moby Peepee is so kino, I smashed through 3/4 of the book in 2 days, but have been slowly finishing it over the last week. The prose is beautiful, it reminds me of modernist novels despite predating them. All of the little asides from the story are great, especially chapter 32 where he goes into 19th century cetology. I do wish Ishmael was an actual character, there's a bit of development between him and Queequag but he just kind of disappears into the background after a while.
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Melville was such a whale neurodivergent, half of the book is manual on whaling and about how awesome whaling is, I was quite impressed by his encyclopedic knowledge on that and so many other subjects, and then there's some good philosophical chapters like “Fast fish, loose fish”
Ishmael is kind of a Melville self insert, as the character is clearly highly educated and verbose, not exactly your average sailor.
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Yes, I find his enthusiasm almost contagious. He is just so excited and motivated when explaining something really mundane, like the butchering process or the harpoon line. The respect for the creature, and his love for his fellow man, is really interesting too.
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