A timeless book. Literally everyone and their mother knows Moby Dick. But honestly, I was not prepared for how good this book actually is. The book is like massive, and only 20% of it is actual plot. The rest is just history of whaling, whale biology, whaling ship architecture, and everything pertaining to whale hunting. I got so immersed in all of that I stopped even caring about the plot, the plot is lowkey boring by comparison. I never even realized how important sperm whale oil was to the global economy in the olden days. Anyways, that’s my review. Come for the plot, stay for the history.