Ha! I started in my mid-teens. I was told: "It changed my life!". I've read it every three years or so (even for the decade-plus that I've lived out of the US

Ha! I started in my mid-teens. I was told: "It changed my life!". I've read it every three years or so (even for the decade-plus that I've lived out of the US, once in Japanese!), and ... I just don't get it. I probably don't get Moby Dick either, but I find it to be remarkably funny, and not a whiney teenager, so I'm going to give it a pass. Thanks for the comment. I have a bit of a hang-up about how much I don't get "The Great American Novel" (as a born-and-bred rural American, I should get those, you know? :-) )