| ▲ | vunderba 6 hours ago | |
> Moby-Dick remains perhaps the best reading experience of my life. I sometimes half-jokingly maintain that Moby-Dick was really written as part of an early BOOK-IT [1] reading incentive program to improve literacy among whalers by disguising a novel as a cetological guidebook. There are entire chapters devoted to the harpooning process, sperm whale anatomy, maritime legal disputes over whale harvesting, etc. | ||
| ▲ | quercusa 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd. | ||
| ▲ | hearsathought 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Not unless elementary kids were whalers back then. > [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Hut#Book_It! Talk about nostalgia. Haven't thought about pizza hut and book it in ages. | ||
| ▲ | NoMoreNicksLeft 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
You suckered me into reading the article by mentioning Moby Dick. | ||