What appealed to you about it? I listened to it, and mostly liked it, but I doubt I would have finished it if I were reading it instead of listening. I liked his enthusiasm - how Ishmael wants change and decided to go to sea, and so he dives headfirst into whaling, how he classifies whales as fish and then details the whole classification with publishing jargon instead of anything biological, and how anything worth mentioning is worth a whole chapter of details, even if it is unrelated to the narrative. I like how he dives in to everything, but it is also off-putting since the narrative is only a tiny fraction of the book. I've heard so many people who hate it from high school literature classes, and I'm on the fence myself, so I'm curious what appealed to you since you like it.