Anyone up for a Moby Dick reading club? 🚣 🐳

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Have been planning another go at reading this and felt like there was a fair bit of praise and/or interest in it in the finishing things thread so thought I’d gauge interest.

  • Interested
  • Not interested but have a nice time
  • Not interested but hope you have a bad time

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Thinking of starting it this sunday (feel like books should be started on sundays imo)

  • That sounds good
  • Would be up for it if it started later
  • Still not interested

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The book has a lot of fairly short chapters (135) so I’d suggest a rough pace of 5 chapters a day/25 a week, meaning it would take about 4/5 weeks to read.

  • Sounds reasonable
  • Something else

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Yeah? Yeah.

:whale:

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that’s all fine and good until you get to one of the chapters that’s just scientific descriptions of whale classifications that runs on for 20+ pages

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i said rough!

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Possibly, but not sure I’d get anywhere near five chapters a day.

Its undoubtedly a good book, but never managed to finish it on previous attempts.

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Same, hence feel some kinda structured approach might help.

Reckon the pace will be pretty loose, but if I read something over too long a period I will almost definitely lose interest.

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Up for this as I’ve always quite fancied starting this and throwing it across the room in frustration about ten pages in (or enjoying it, who knows?)

Maybe make it a week Sunday start to give non-Kindle users a bit more time to source though?

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Good chance if i dont start it for 10 days I’ll likely forget about the entire thing, but if people are up for it we can do that.

Preferred start date

  • This sunday (30th Aug)
  • Next sun (6th Sept)
  • Tuesday 12th of Never

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i.e. the best chapters

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WHAT

ahm oot

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Based on everything I’ve read about it I’ll give up on it pretty swiftly anyway, so don’t worry too much about my opinions (I know you do normally)

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You can skip the cetology if you like.

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Good god no

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spoiler:

Dick was actually the name of the whale.

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can we call you moby dickheads

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Never!!

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you seem nice

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you don’t like books about war OR whales???

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Can we listen to Mastodon as well?

Already read it and have no desire to again.

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I’ve read it before and I’ve too many other books I’ve not read to dove back in to it right now. But it’s well worth reading, and this is a great idea to help motivate you through the bits you struggle on.

I did something similar the first time I read infinite jest and that really helped

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how many pages is moby dick