It took me almost a month to read it, because it's super boring. I thought it would be a great adventure, but it's really not; I still haven't figured out if it was a novel, an essay or a play.
I think the book is split in 3 parts. The first one was okay, it settles everything and we learn more about the main characters and the narrator (God, he is boring that one). And the third one was the most interesting, cause it's what we read the book for. But the second one? That one was so boring, it's just explanations about the ship or whales.
It's not a bad novel, it's well written, but it's definitely not what I expected nor what I enjoy reading.