[Artemis Webb]

Moby Dick is unreadable.
Find me somebody that claims they’ve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and I’ll show you a liar.

[Prokopton]

Moby Dick is unreadable. Find me somebody that claims they’ve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and I’ll show you a liar.

I've read it in its entirety twice. Great book.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Moby Dick is unreadable. Find me somebody that claims they’ve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and I’ll show you a liar.

lol...I haven't studied Mody Dick in so many years that I had forgotten how the original work stirred up such passions.

You have obviously tried to read it...and walked away angry. Can you remind us of why it was so unreadable?

[tickmeister]

I’ve read it and enjoyed it. I occasionally like to read something in that old style of writing in which the author took the time to say what he intended instead of pushing on to the next explosion.

[packrat35]

I’ll admit I never could get through Moby Dick. And I really loved to read in my youth. Just plain painful. I never finished the comic book version either and hate the movie with Gregory Peck. Never watched all of it either.

[Blue Ink]

“Moby Dick is unreadable.”

Preach it, brother.

[NonZeroSum]

Moby Dick is unreadable.

Find me somebody that claims they’ve read it front to back (not an abridged version) and I’ll show you a liar.

I have. Are you really calling me a liar?

[dagogo redux]

I have read Moby Dick unabridged, understood every word, loved the writing throughout, and consider it one of the finest reads in my long lifetime of reading.

Neither Melville nor Hawthorne were, in my opinion and the opinion of many others, as quintessentially American as Twain was, hence his place of honor.

[Vermont Lt]

I’ve got the audio book, and it’s torture.