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I listened to this on audio, read by Anthony Heald. I've read the book before, but I got so much more out of hearing it with this great dramatic reading.
All I know about this book was that Moby-Dick is a whale. So I wasn’t really quite sure what the story was going to be like. Was there a story? Barely!!I don’t mind the occasional tangent about whales: in history, scientific facts, on whaling, etc but seriously most of the book is basically tangen...
Moby Dick was a great book. There was less about the white whale than I would have imagined. It's a fascinating read.
I'm glad I'm finished, and I'm doubly glad that I cheated and listened to the abridged version! Kudos to my husband for reading the entire book in paper format!
No finer book about the 19th century whaling industry has ever been written. There are exciting passages about the flensing of whales, gut-wrenching tales of the boiling of whale blubber, and don't even get me started on the whole chapter about the absurdities of mid-19th century financial regulati...
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