Rec | MOBY DICK

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Rec'd on 📖 WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CLASSIC NOVEL

— no one writes quite like Herman Melville. He can pin down the essence of a character with two sentences in such a way you feel like you know them exactly. He can describe anything, from mundane tasks to elements of the natural world, in such exciting and novel ways that he extracts revelations seemingly everywhere he directs his attention. This book in particular reads like post-modernism, but was published in 1851.

@slowdazzle

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️ Moby Dick

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the joy of tacking a classic and realizing yes, It really is that good

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The outermost house

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