Melville

>>9231583
Billy budd is goat

His poetry is also damn good

>>9231583
Billy Budd and Bartleby the Scrivener are excellent

I found The Confidence Man boring, repetitive and not worth the slog.

Israel Potter was entertaining, but basically Melville lite. Just something he wrote to pay bills not something with same obsessive brilliance as Moby Dick

what about typee/omoo/mardi?

Damn what a slog Moby Dick was, damn good but what a hard Slog.

The Confidence-Man is his best book.

>>9232022
Typee's good, as is Redburn, not mentioned here, surprisingly. Confidence Man and Mardi are written in a style obnoxious to many. Pierre's fun because its such schlock, so NOT Melville, and yet, and yet it is..

>>9232270
Can you elaborate about Pierre? I'm thinking about starting it. For reference, Moby Dick is my favorite book, and I've read and enjoyed Bartleby, Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, and The Confidence Man.

The confidence man was really good

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>>9231583

>>9232472
It's his attempt at a society novel about a rich /lit/ kid and his widowed mother who dresses young and likes for her son to pretend that she's his sister. It's absurd, not even remotely great, but I strangely liked it.