Just finished a re-read of Moby Dick. I go back to it every couple of years - and it has become a delight! The book is now so familiar to me that I can finally appreciate the humor (ofttimes quite wicked), music, and depth of the writing that was lost on me as a student. If you take the time to track down all of Melville's references, thrown oh so casually into the narrative, you'll find that Melville was extremely well read in the classics, travel literature, and contemporary (for him) literature. Just reading the first chapter can put a smile on my face - as I plunge in again for the doomed voyage.
