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velcrovantoday at 1:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Moby Dick has a bad (high) ratio of “people who try to read it like a thriller novel” to “people who read it for what it is”.


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miltonlosttoday at 1:57 PM

If they want a short and lean "man fights fish/sea animal", they should stick to "The Old Man and the Sea". I'll stick with the investigation into finding purpose in a purposeless ocean.