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Today I came with a classic that is known as a difficult book, that people who start reading it generally get bored of, and that I have not seen recommended much.
The first day I started reading this 720-page book, I read 210 pages. If it had been a book that forced me, whose language was incomprehensible and tiring, I would not have been able to read so many pages from the first minute I picked it up. At the beginning of the story, when Ishmael and his boarding of the Pequod ship were described, everything was very fluid. But then you start reading such deep information and details that the book starts to get stuck. You're starting to get a taste of a documentary. If you expect the fluency of a novel at this point, I think the book will get stuck and won't progress. For this reason, I continued reading as if I were reading an informative text. My reading speed slowed down, but I continued reading with pleasure.
The captain of the ship, Ahab, and his story full of ambition and revenge inevitably keep you alive and you continue reading with curiosity. I'm sure you will be excited by Ahab's oaths to kill Moby Dick and his expectation that everyone will support him, and Starbuck's opposition to all this, as a person who has adopted the Christian faith, as the second captain of the ship.
When you close the cover of the book, you will feel that you are actually reading a much deeper text, nature's struggle with man and man's helplessness in the face of nature. Finally, if I had to sum up, I would say do not pass without reading this book, which explains every aspect of the sea and whaling and makes you feel like you are experiencing every detail while reading.