Moby Dick Was Funny

Maetenloch: ...But a few years after college I ended up reading them again and found them much more interesting and meaningful.

Had to Summer-read Moby Dick before 10th grade (scared new kid entering a small K-12 prep school). I don't think I made it through. So boring and heavy! (Oddly, I seem to recall being the only one in the class who appreciated some of the Biblical allusions. And I was sure not a Bible student. So I looked like I'd read it....)

Read it through, finally, decades later, and really enjoyed it. It wasn't as heavy, or boring.

But then, the last time I read it, a decade or so ago, I woke up the wife laughing out loud sometimes.