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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
In my opinion Moby Dick is a really great book stuffed with a lot of unnecessary filler material. Loved the quotable passages, the well-drawn characters, and the adventure; hated the endless chapters on the characteristics of various whale species. I'm told those chapters are supposed to be allegorical, but of what I have no idea.
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I took an entire class on
Moby Dick at university. We had the most fun picking apart those allegorical chapters. But it certainly took a great deal of historical background reading and a fantastic professor.
In the same vein, I took an entire class on
Paradise Lost and the other works of Milton as well.