“ugh why is moby-dick so long”
ishmael is telling you a story about how all his friends died and how he was the sole survivor of the disaster, why wouldn't he want to delay getting to that point of the story as long as possible?
the odyssey
the length of the book parallels the long amounts of time that whalers were away from home with long periods of boredom punctuated few and far between by brief bouts of frenzied action
you don't like cetology? whalelore? kys
since when have you ever complained about a dick being long. ungrateful
