> Moby Dick hit me like no novel before or since. A poem in prose form. Also +1, I was familiar with the book only through exposure to it's symbolic representa

> Moby Dick hit me like no novel before or since. A poem in prose form. Also +1, I was familiar with the book only through exposure to it's symbolic representation in popular culture I.e. a boring 10 pages of plot "diluted" in 1000 pages of autistically compulsive descriptions of whale biology So one random night before bed I finished the ebook I was reading, felt a little burned out halfway through the 40 book terry pratchet collection, had moby dick on the ereader since it's public domain idk and opened it up because why not ... And stayed up most of the night, read it at every opportunity going forward, and probably highlighted every other sentence as an example of absolutely delightful prose