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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
why nobody talks about melville’s witty and hilarious prose?
i know i know im only one chapter in, but every sentence was packed with meaning, every sentence carried an actual thought, and many of those thoughts were funny as fuck, so i was laughing every paragraph.
i’m hooked (for now anyway) and will report when i get a chance.
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First 150 pages or so are fantastic. Then it gets a bit dull and difficult. Let me know if/when you get there.
Tried and failed to read it since high school, but it finally hit me a few years ago. Still a few dead spots, but it really is a masterpiece. Just not for everyone.
After one gets through it, it becomes a GREAT book to pick up and read any random chapter when you have a few minutes to kill. I think you've already discovered that. Most quotable American novel?