Moby Dick seems to be very love-it-or-hate-it. Some people can't make it through two pages; some people can't put it down once they start.

Haven’t read Dickens, but Melville was a revelation for me. His short stories are great, but Moby Dick is a work of glory. It’s hard to explain why, but Moby Dick basically bifurcated my life: there was the time before I read it and the time after. That being said, I would have hated it in high school and am glad it wasn’t assigned. It was something I could only appreciate in my 30s.

>Idk, Dickens and Melville are pretty hard to get through.

If you're reading for just funsies, sure. But none of their works are particularly long, even reading a few chapters here and there, it'd take a week for each at most.

Try Joyce as a non-native speaker :P