[DManA]

4. Moby Dick, Herman Melville: If you haven’t managed this one yet, consider that William F. Buckley, Jr. did not actually read this until he was 50, remarking then to friends: “To think I might have died without having read it.”

Ha, me too. I learned way more about whale penises than I cared to know.

[Recon Dad]

Almost everything I avoided reading from early American Lit in college.

(...every and I mean every female novel authoresses)

[arthurus]

Moby Dick was my favorite book when I was a young teenager. I tried other Melville stuff but could never get through them. Actually I first encountered Moby Dick when it was read to my 3rd grade class in 1954 by the teacher. We had an hour each of 3 days a week that the teacher used for reading to the class. She was good. No one cut up or went to sleep. Of course class was only a dozen kids at most.

[davisfh]

Is “Moby Dick” a social illness?

[wolfman]

I speed read Moby Dick once. It’s something about a whale.