moby-dick

[ed miliband]

anyone read it?

seems to be a trendy book with the ultra-left, going back years to clr james and later loren goldner.

i really enjoyed reading it just because i enjoyed the wordplay and the nature of the narrative, plus it's a pretty cool story anyway. interested as to what others think.

[Zukunftsmusik]

i really enjoyed reading it just because i enjoyed the wordplay and the nature of the narrative, plus it's a pretty cool story anyway. interested as to what others think.

That's what I love with it as well. It could be read as man's obsession with utopia, and the dangers of destruction and the view of man as a means to fulfill an end when hunting that utopia/the white whale etc etc and I can see how this may be relevant to the left or to politics in general, but fuck that, I just like the prose and the story, especially how Ishmael takes his time unraveling the main narrative, with all the detours and so on.

[skitty]

If memory serves, it was based on a true story involving a whaler(Essex?) sunk by a whale and some cannibalism amoung survivors? Anyhoo, if the book was popular with leftists, it's author would not be!

[citizen of industry]

I personally didn't like it. I thought he went into way too much detail about the specifics of the industry, to the point where it distracted from the story. But, to each his own.

[ed miliband]

I personally didn't like it. I thought he went into way too much detail about the specifics of the industry, to the point where it distracted from the story. But, to each his own.

that's what i enjoyed about it, tbh. at least partially.

in a way it reminded me of the work of later writers like william s. burroughs and david foster wallace -- just ridiculously rich in description and so on, i mean each sentence is a challenge, but a a very beautiful one.