About half-way through Moby-Dick now, and it's certainly starting to shape up well. "Hearts alive, men!" it's also given me a new-found appreciation for Mastodon's "Leviathan" album, which is a concept album inspired by the book, not that I listen to metal any more anyway, but, now those memories of the lyrics have been reshaped and contextualized.
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I do listen to metal, and quite a bit, so I will absolutely check out "Leviathan". My experiences with Mastodon has been a bit hit and miss and nothing has really stood out before. The book has also been on my reading list for a while and it's been a long time since I last read "an oldie", as it were, so I might bump it up a bit.
@FuriousMachine Excellent, I'd be curious to know how you get along with the album. It was previously one of my favourites in the genre
Edit: Further to what we were saying earlier, Mastodon are an odd one in the sense that their career trajectory rightfully followed that of the band they largely succeded in the 00s, the mighty Metallica, i.e their first four albums were aggressive, increasingly technical and thrashy, then they did their sort of "Black Album" with their fifth, arguably more slowed-down and accessible release , "The Hunter" and then I guess what would be called their equivalent of Load/Reload with "Once More 'Round The Sun" then a later return to heaviness, like Metallica, later in their career, who knows where they will go next?
About 2/3 of the way through Moby-Dick now, there have been some exciting action scenes, paced with some more philosophical chapters reflecting on the nature of whaling and whales. Thoroughly enjoying it. Closing in on the end now.
Finished Moby-Dick now and found reading it to be a thoroughly riveting journey, found it to be a true American Classic, a truly epic tale. Now onto Horses of the Sun, a biography of the abstract artist, M.F. Husain.
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