I read moby dick (twice!) and have since become an evangelist for it. I didn’t even mind the lessons on different kinds of whales. I get why people think it’s dry but it’s objectively one of the most important things I’ve read.

I love this book but it does have serious problems. I think the way that women/native people are written is glossed over with “oh well they’re 1840s men” but like. The show doesn’t have that problem. I hesitate to recommend the book and it’s one of the rare instances when I would say to watch the show first/instead of the book.

As has been said the TV show is literally a work of art I can’t recommend it highly enough.

I read the book in like a week and it changed the course of my educational pursuits and I ended up mentioning it in my thesis. So it’s got a place in my heart, with all its problems.