I quite like Moby Dick. Good book. Shakespeare too.
My problem is with artificial, curated reading lists, rather than something organic that arises out of interest.
My problem is with artificial, curated reading lists, rather than something organic that arises out of interest.
This reads like a non-sequitur. OP pointed out that your summary of Don Quixote clearly shows you failed to understand the book at all, thus you're criticizing it out of ignorance. Hence the comparison of your summary with claiming that Moby Dick is a story of a guy who hates whales.
Of course critique is largely subjective, so you're free to have a very different experience of the work.