Moby Dick

            I’ve given up on reading Moby Dick. I’ve been trying to read it now off and on for over a year.  I know it’s a classic, and that there are many people who revere the book, but frankly, I found it structurally inferior, and much of it’s content unnecessary, in a nut shell, it was over written. The fact that it’s a classic is mystifying. We must’ve really needed a classic at that point in American history, either that or people are afraid of speaking poorly about it for fear of rebuking the accepted norm. I think somebody at Harvard, or one those leafy green schools said it was a classic and “presto” we had ourselves a classic. I found the first hundred pages or so very interesting, but after that I couldn’t take the meandering anymore. If Melville had just told the story and left out the poetics, I think it would’ve been a better book. And that’s coming from the mind of a poet.