Why is this considered a "difficult" book?

Because retards can't appreciate Ishmael's wisdom.

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>>8929300
tell us what you want to hear first, bub. You want a bunch of (you)'s telling you Americans are stupid? Here ya go.

It has almost no story, the occasional events are watered down by the narrator's endless poetic digressions. It's pretty difficult if Harry Potter and ASOIAF are your favorite books.

>>8929300
Probably all the allusions. Also the prose could be difficult if you've only read children's books.

>>8929300
Because it was written quite a while ago by a man who knew a lot of things about a man who knows and talks about a lot of different things by not talking about the things, but by talking about other things that allude to his opinions on the other things. And then there's a whale, like twice.

>>8929300
It's not that their are any concepts that are difficult to grasp. It's difficult because it has hundreds of allusions, many of which will be lost on contemporary readers who don't have copies that include extensive notes (I recommend the Norton Critical Editions text), and there are lengthy parts that really test the reader's patience. What often surprises readers about Moby-Dick, however, is how funny it can be.

>>8929300

On the contrary, I think it's a WHALE of a time!

;^D

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>>8930371
>tfw you realize you really did read moby-dick at a starbucks and never even made a dad-tier joke about it

>>8930644
>tfw all those times you sucked cannibal headhunter dicks unironically

>>8930121
>that part near the beginning where Ishmael accidentally walks into a church full of niggers and immediately walks out again
for some reason this gave me a hearty kek

>>8930121
I actually just started Moby Dick. Dug up a Borders Classics edition I bought when I was 10. Think I can get by or should I get one with notes?