About halfway through reading my copy of Moby Dick I was invited on a river rafting trip and what better book to bring along than Moby Dick! Well my book was heavily water logged during the trip and I thought destroyed, but when I let it dry out completely, the pages weren't stuck together as I would have thought and I was able to read it just fine. Well I've always thought that incident gave this particular book a ton of character, most especially because of what book it is of course; and in a semi-related event, when I later brought home my kayak, I named her the Pequod.