When I read Moby Dick, I was surprised at how rarely Ahab and the white whale actually appear in the text. But I was fine with that because I found the info dumps really engaging. I have no idea why people think it's a boring or intimidating novel.
ApocalypticaNow
moby dick: herman melville infodumps incorrectly about whales for two hundred thousand words
also there’s a story I guess
Micah
As everyone knows, Moby Dick is the most autistic novel in the North American literary tradition