Nobody told me Moby Dick was funny?? I always expect classics to be kind of hard to engage with emotionally or in prose style, and to be fair I bounced off this a couple times as a teenager because I kept forgetting what people's names were by focusing on every little detail. This is a funny book. One of my favourite flavours of funny, which is an earnest but humorous narrative voice. AND it's an earnest but humorous narrative voice that looooves trying to taxonomise whales while emphasizing the futility and yet importance of this attempt.

This audiobook narrator (Stewart Mills) is bringing out the humour in the lines really well without overdoing it. I'm having fun :)