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Originally Posted by Mutt
I put off reading this book my entire life, acclaimed to be of the greatest novels ever written. The book was a total bomb when it was published in the latter 19th century. The author lived out his life as a failure working as a customs inspector.
It's awful, each page is torture. I need to use a dictionary or Google minimum 5 times per page. I will finish all 600 horrid pages because I'm not a quitter.
There's some masterful writing in it but as a whole, agony.
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The trick is is to skip the entire several chapters on where he describes the breeds of whales etc. well, at least that's what I was taught when reading it.
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