What to read after Moby Dick (Annotated)?

Annotations This book is unique because it contains a literary criticism that was made by Juan Acevedo If I were, for example, a reviewer of manuscripts of a publisher, and they asked me to make a report about the possibility of publishing Moby Dick, I would answer something similar to this: "It has great possibilities, but is wasted." Review almost completely: save the first 50 pages, the last 100, and a few in between (whaling, etc.), throw the rest. " Then, surely, Moby Dick would be published in another publishing house, it would become a cult work and I would be fired and ridiculed. What can we do. What happens with Moby Dick is that we have in our heads something like the "Disney version" of the novel: the fierce struggle of a satanic and monomaniac captain, in his pursuit of a no less satanic animal, the great white whale, counted all for a beginner sailor, Ismael. Well, yes, that's there, but fundamentally in (sorry for the autocita) "the first 50 pages, the last 100, and a few in between." The rest, the remaining 400 pages, are a kind of Grand encyclopedia of the cetology, which presents the zoological classification of the whales, their physiology, habits, the tools used to hunt them, the functions of each member of the crew of a whaler ... All this is not without its interest, especially now that it surrounds the aura of the old, the artisan and even the politically incorrect; but of course it is not what one expects when taking a novel, and it is certainly not what people mention when they mention Moby Dick (which leads me to wonder how many people have really read this work). Fortunately, the reader always has the supreme authority to skip those pages that do not interest him, in search of the narrative passages. And there is no doubt that these narrative passages contain great aspects: if a redacted version of Moby Dick was published (something that has always seemed an aberration, to be sure), we would have an exciting novel, full of romanticism, fatalism and darkness. The character of Ahab, the scene of the harpoon forge or the final chase are memorable; the initial pages are also very funny, in which the inexperienced Ismael tries to enlist in a whaler, and is sleeping embraced by a savage tattooed in a bed of 90.