Reading challenge

Is still on going but I don't think I'm going to make it to 52. This is book 36 however I think I am going to have to abandon it. It's Moby Dick and I'm finding it very hard going. It's like multiple books in one and the narrative seems to lose pace when it switches. Like a novel mixed in with a text book. There are times when it seems all description and no further forward with the story. I've made it half way but rather than being a pleasure it's been a chore. Time I feel to give up, which is something I rarely do.