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Hot take: I dropped $60 on a fancy annotated copy of 'Moby-Dick' for our club
Our group in Austin was split on the book, with half of us totally lost in the old language. I bought the Norton Critical Edition, which has notes explaining all the whaling stuff and the symbolism. It honestly saved the whole discussion from just being a bunch of confused looks. Has anyone else found a specific edition of a book that totally changed how your club talked about it?
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jennifere182mo ago
My cheap paperback made me hate Ulysses.
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oscar7542mo ago
My friend said the Oxford World's Classics edition footnotes saved her from giving up on it.
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sam_harris681mo ago
Honestly, footnotes are the only way to survive that book. The cheap print just makes it worse.
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