Post by: AngelOfThyNight on August 01, 2019, 11:19:59 PM
Along with so many, I was first subjected to "Moby-Dick" when I was still a teenager, being forced to read it as part of an American literature survey course. I was not a fan of it-- I certainly could never have anticipated I would one day make a film about it. I thought it was a laborious read. Its narrative was glacially slow, and the titular antagonist doesn't even make an appearance until the final pages of the novel. I resented the book and was quite glad to put it down and (hopefully) never touch it again.
Source: Herman Melville is 200, but 'Moby-Dick' is very 2019 (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/C3I2UasdNrY/index.html)