Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
Moby Dick is a really shit book. You hear that it is so great and then read it and it is just a thumping bore. I haven't completed War and Peace but fuck that one too. Being a literary bore crosses all continents.

British 19th century literature had a lot of good stuff too. Treasure Island, Jeckyll and Hyde, Great Expectations, Dracula, Dorian Gray. All pretty fantastic.
The real life events Moby Dick was based on is pretty awesome....but then again 'In The Heart of The Sea' was a shitty movie about that exact thing