If they replace the whaling I won't be able skip half the book.

And we need to get the poems out of LOTR

Let an editor loose on Tom Bombadill

Tom is the best bit

While they're at it, they can change all the times where Melville refers to whales as FISH. Sheesh! Great American Novel, my ass!

read Moby Dick during many sessions relaxing in the bath - which was somehow appropriate.

My Beloved has the deepest and most abiding hate on for Moby Dick. Which he admits is in no small part due to him putting off that required reading until the day before. Pulling an all nighter to get Moby Dick read could scar anyone.