With LOTR, Tolstoy, and Moby Dick, the RHYTHM of the writing is as important as the story.
I just finished reading MD again, and experienced once more the rolling unresolved cadence of that ceaseless main, rocking , like a cradle teeming with life, through my feverish, restless heart. And that was just through the boring parts! LOL!
The world needs more good books like those for sure.....so many novels today are lame, predictable, and poorly written.
Maybe I’ll get the CD of Moby-Dick. I’m almost through my current batch of library books.