Moby Dick is a combination of a beautiful story combined with the most boring details imaginable about whaling. As far as I recall those details add nothing to the story beyond Melville being worried he would not have enough "street cred" with whalers unless he added enough details to show that he knows what real whaling is all about.
I have often been tempted to use a razor and go Jefferson Bible on that book, cutting out all the pointless detailed sections.
Just get ChatGPT to get rid of all the irrelevant parts of Moby Dick by Herman Melville, like the parts that describe whaling in detail, and are definitely irrelevant. Personally I just read the chapter headings and first and last sentences of each para, most of the stuff in between in 99.9% of books is just filler anyways
if all you care about is a plot summary, maybe. but that's not why i read books. i am interested in the scenery, the world building, how the characters are portrayed, what they experience. i want to read every word the author intended to put there.
I have often been tempted to use a razor and go Jefferson Bible on that book, cutting out all the pointless detailed sections.