alt Hacker NewsYou can use "20,000 leagues under the sea" instead of Moby Dick.
Both were written at the same time, both deal with ocean adventures, and both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be.
Then you can have multiple Jules tests, depending on occasion!
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znpy • today at 11:06 AM
> both (IMHO) are much longer than they need to be
I haven’t read moby dick but i dropped 20’000 leagues under the see a bit past half the book because of this. At some point the author spent pages and pages and pages describing the environment under the see, often repeating himself.
I’ll get back to that book at some point but yes, it’s longer than it needs to be.
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Moby Dick had a much worse ratio of "size of good novel trying to get out / actual size", in my opinion.