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I read it many years ago; I remember being under-whelmed at the time, but it could be that I would appreciate it more, on a re-read. It's not overly long, so I may just do that soon. I certainly would not rate it as the greatest American novel (for that, I would nominate "A Confederacy of Dunces" perhaps, or maybe "Slaughterhouse-Five").
It may be interesting to compare and contrast the whaling depicted in "Moby Dick" with that described in "Jamrach's Menagerie", as both are set in the era when commercial whaling for oil was being supplanted by petroleum oil drilling.