Moby Dick

It's been a long time again without a single post nor a book
finished... There's a good reason to that of course. No, let's make it
several:

1. First, I'm playing Mario Kart DS again in the train: in multi-player
   mode, it never gets old ;)
2. Then, I've watched all 3 seasons of "The big bang theory" on my iPhone in the train as well: I have to admit I'm loving it, does that have to do with my 26% rating as a geeking geek on the geek test? (I'm a 25,46125% Total Geek sur la v3.14 du test :)
3. And last but not least, Moby Dick is boring: I started it 5 months ago
   and I'm stuck at page 210 out of 536. I cannot find the motivation to
   go farther and since it really really blocks me, I've decided (a first
   timer for me!) to quit reading it and move on to another book.

So, how did Herman Melville managed to bore me out of my skull? There are
several reasons that are making me a quitter on this one:

• Nothing happens: really nothing. And nothing takes up an awful lot of
  pages. After 100 pages, Ishmael is still not aboard the Pequod.
• Weird editing: chapter are really small and often, the story is broken
  by "divagation" chapters from the writer: the dictionnary of all
  whales being the most indigest and boring of all
• Uninteresting characters/relationship: I don't really care if nothing
  happens as long as there are interesting characters involved in
  interesting relationships: but nothing here, i could not even attach
  myself to this poor Queequeg
• Hard to read: I've read most of Dickens, and even Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but this one is even harder to read, mostly because of the abuse of the specific vocabulary.
• It makes me miserable: Not even the promise of an epic journey or the development of captain Ahab could keep me reading this book, because I'm somewhat persuaded by now that the writer will ruin it with his awful style :(

Re-reading myself, I have been a bit harsch... Let's keep it at "I'm
bored and moving on" ;)
I need a change of scenery!!! I don't know what the next book will be, but it's got to be different!