Ocean Literature

[Étienne Brûlé 2015 !vRiBH2uekA No.6104204]

What are the greatest novels that take place around the sea?

>tfw you read The Sailor Who fell from Grace with the Sea expecting it to be some great sea tale and then most of it takes place on shore.

[Anonymous No.6104407]

Wind Waker

[Anonymous No.6104413]

The Old Man and The Sea's an easily read novella, a classic. Moby Dick's another classic and an excellent read.

[Anonymous No.6104418]

Nostromo
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[Anonymous No.6104424]

These trips are making my head swim.

[Anonymous No.6104511]

>>6104204
Billy Budd and Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.6104516]

>>6104413
>and an excellent read.

Ugh

[Anonymous No.6105282]

Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick.

[Anonymous No.6105395]

>>6104516
I listened to it over the summer while doing menial labor for tuition payments. Most of the time I was wondering to myself why I was wasting my time listening to someone ramble on about the color white or read a made up encyclopedia about whales which is factually wrong. Now though I look back at the memories fondly and there have been times I want nothing more to be thrown back into the madness that was Ahab's ship and mind. It really grows on you.

[Anonymous No.6105405]

>>6104204
Londons "A son of the sun''

[Anonymous No.6105414]

>>6104204
Do you listen to Ocean Grunge, Étienne?

[Anonymous No.6105438]

The Master and Commander series are a lot of fun with an engaging prose style.
I like a lot of Conrad's novels and novellas about the sea.
Lord Jim
Typhoon
The Shadow Line
Youth

[Anonymous No.6105442]

>>6105438
I forgot Victory, also by Conrad

Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn and Spartina were good novels about commercial fisherman.

Men's Lives by Peter Matthiesen was a good non-fiction book about commercial fisherman

Far Tortuga was an interesting experimental prose novel by Matthiesen about turtle fisherman down in the Cayman Islands.

[Anonymous No.6105460]

>>6105395
>I listened to it

[Anonymous No.6105463]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner son

[Anonymous No.6105496]

>>6105463
>muh water water everywhere
>muh weirdo old man talking to strangers about his lies

[Anonymous No.6105503]

>>6104516
>Moby Dick
>not an excellent read

[Anonymous No.6105520]

>>6105460
who is that qtπ?

[Anonymous No.6105734]

>>6104204
To The Lighthouse

[Étienne Brûlé 2015 !vRiBH2uekA No.6107651]

>>6105414
Ocean grunge is so 2012, timewave is the new dig.

[Anonymous No.6107663]

>>6104511
>>6104413
Basically anything by Melville is good, he lived as a sailor for a good chunk of his life, getting into all sorts of adventures

[Anonymous No.6107905]

>>6107651
rec me some bby boy

[Anonymous No.6108116]

Jack London wrote quite some sailor novels, some of them surprisingly nasty (that one about the Elsinore).

Poe's The Adventure of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is funny yet intriguing. In The Maëlstrom is worth checking as well.

Quite obviously, the Odyssey (and to a lesser extent the Aeneid) although they aren't novels (what's with this /lit obsession with novels ?).

[Anonymous No.6108125]

>>6104413
Moby Dick is awful.
>More like "Moby SucksDick".
>Overrated garbage/10

[Anonymous No.6108138]

>>6108125
wow you're pleb as fuck m8

[Anonymous No.6108148]

>>6105463
Glad someone beat me to it. This one is one of the best.

[Anonymous No.6108150]

>>6104418

This X10. Conrad too was a legit sailor.

[Anonymous No.6108151]

>>6108138
Actually read it instead of being an insufferable hipster twat.

[Anonymous No.6108764]

Lovecraft wrote some short stories like Dagon and Call of Cthulhu that have good ocean stuff
Also Robert E Howard wrote several stories in which Conan was a pirate

[Anonymous No.6108929]

>>6105438
nigger of the narcissus is about the sea too right?

[Anonymous No.6108947]

>>6104204
Conrad and Melville. Also some Dickens.

[Anonymous No.6108967]

Toilers of the sea.
Never forget that Hugo is god-tier.