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Moby Dick
I think it's pretty funny so far. I just got to the first time Ishamael does a whaling excursion, and it goes tits up. He's just going around to everyone complaining and asking about it.
"It's normal for the boat to get flipped and for us all to almost drown and actually Starbuck is exceptionally careful when it comes to harpoon captains and I'm probably going to actually die from this?"
"This is true"
"Oh. Come Queequeg, we will be rewriting my will."

The first like 40 chapters have been so light and comedic with a simmering Ahab hiding in the shadows watching, waiting, refusing to pass butter to poor butterless Flask, and suddenly he bursts out on the deck, hammering his gold doubloon into the mast. He shouts to the crew that their true objective is to hunt that loathsome alabaster whale. To the ends of the Earth and through all four seas, he'll chase that Moby Dick until he has made true the prophecy he writes today. He'd strike the sun if it insulted him, and that corkscrew blow-hole, deformed jaw-having, wrinkly foreheaded whale FUCK will rue the day it stole his leg from him. And then lil Pip did a jig with his tamberine.
This book is really fun, and every line is written so dramatically. I recommend it.