/lit/ - Literature

I’m about to read a fuckin meme. What to expect

I can’t believe it. Call of the Crocodile is the modern day Moby Dick.

>Both have a protagonist (Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Joe in Call of the Crocodile) who have been hurt somehow by a beast in their past. Captain Ahab with his leg and Joe’s son was eaten by the crocodile.
>Both are very troubled and go through similar arcs
>Both novels carefully build up the creature who harmed them as dangerous and really menacing to mythical proportions
>Moby Dick and the crocodile are both revealed about halfway through the book.
>Climatic encounter with said beast and unexpected results.

Even the fucking covers look similar with the whale/crocodile on the lower left corners. Who else caught this?

I keep reading books hoping I can get the same feeling I got while reading Moby Dick but nothing hits as hard. Does anyone know anything similar?

I’m not the smartest person but this book loses me with all of its olde English and Shakespeare shit. Any tips to powering through or to better understand the book?

this shit was written over 200 years ago and still bangs so hard. how the fuck did Melville do it?

Between Queequeg, Stubb, and Ahab, who would you
>kill
>marry
>fuck
For me it's
>Ahab
>Stubb
>Queequeg

>it’s another whale anatomy chapter

what kind of person do you imagine when you hear that phrase?

This must be the greatest novel ever written. Nothing comes close.

I just finished this novel. What the hell was Ahabs problem? And what was his relationship with pip after the drowning supposed to mean?

Why didn't he just stop trying to kill the whale when it was obvious he couldn't get him? Kind of dumb character desu

Was this a response to Emerson, and a satire of transcendentalists?

Hey /lit/, what are your thoughts on plot-holes or inconsistencies in plot? To what extent do they weaken a work?
I presume given the >reading for plot meme that plot consistency is taken by most of this board to be secondary in importance to things like thematic development, prose stylism, etc. I kinda agree, but still there seems something wrong about 100% forgiving a prose stylist for not being able to craft an airtight story.
Any examples of notable plot holes in masterpieces that come to mind?
Pic semi-related. It has all the artistic qualities described above, yet (the version that didn't include the epilogue) was criticized for what audiences viewed as one massive plot hole concerning the ending: without the epilogue, Ishmael appears to die. But then, if everyone's dead, who escaped to tell thee?

Anyone else find that ol' Melville drags it on a bit at times? I mean, he had an entire chapter dedicated to the color white.

What are some legitimate criticisms of Moby Dick?

I haven't read the book, but I act like I have and i'd like to shove some talking points down the throat of a pretentious English major.

>tfw I finally realize that Moby Dick is objectively the best novel ever written

>Ishmael isn't the main character

Can someone explain this meme to me? I keep seeing people say this.

also general Moby Dick discussion, I finally finished it this morning. it was great.

I stopped reading to pic related because it is impossible that Ishmael had so much knowledge being only a junior sailor

I know I am a pleb

>>9718699
Why cant whites ever leave God out of their literature. They are worse than gays writing about muh penislust. I couldnt finish it desu. Memed once again senpaitchi.