Well, that is why he figured he had better go whaling, because if he didn’t, things were gonna go downhill.

I really like when he goes out on a limb and is wrong. Like when he states that, in his opinion, whales are fish. He gives his reasonings then the disclaimer that, whatever, he isn’t an expert. I know so many people like this.

You sabee me?

He is a prince, is he not?

Sure I do. I often like to put a book down regularly to think about what I think is going to happen next. Makes me feel like an analytical genius when I am close to right and makes the unexpected that much more “shocking” when I am wrong.

The book that best illustrates this for me is Gnomon by Harkaway. I have read the first half to two thirds five or six times since it came out in '18. Haven’t finished it yet because I have no idea of where it is going and when I do finally finish it, I will then forever know.

Also, I would like to finally convince one of the sadly few readers that I know to read it as well. I WANNA TALK ABOUT IT. Lol. And I find it much more fun to discuss a book when there is no “I know how this ends” power dynamic.