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Originally Posted by gmw
I think Moby Dick is the big one for me. It's the one I have the most trouble understanding how anyone else could possibly have enjoyed it. Only the book's reputation as a classic had me force myself through to the end. There were a handful of excellent paragraphs to be found (including the first), but it was like panning for gold: lots of mud and very little shine. If ever a book was made to be summarised by Reader's Digest, this was it.
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I read it for a college class. An abridged version might be good, but the book was filled with too much minute detail about whaling and sailing that didn't really move the story along and that I didn't really care about.