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Things Which Cultural Awareness Tells You About Moby Dick

• It’s big
• It’s dense
• It’s dry
• It’s so much literature, you have to be a trained scholar to not be obliterated by it. 

Things which Cultural Awareness Does Not Tell You About Moby Dick

• It’s funny
• It’s a a page-turner
• It’s well written and easy to read, if you don’t mind occasionally looking up archaic words
• You don’t have to be a scholar to enjoy it - and you’ll probably enjoy it more if you don’t approach it as though it were Moby Dick. (Fun Fact: up to the 1920s, Moby Dick was shelved with the boy’s adventure novels). 

Probably the clearest breakdown of good reasons to read Moby-Dick!

It’s also touching and insightful with well-rounded characters (even the insane ones and the jerks!)

And it’s really, really funny.