Well, no one can say I didn't try. I understand it's a classic. A complex classic with meaningful metaphors. A Great American Novel that begins beautifully. Most of us, at some point, can relate to Captain Ahab (in other circumstances, more likely, but it happens). But I just couldn't keep reading t...
This novel was on the syllabus of the 19th century literature course I studied when I was a second year university student, back in 1977. About half way through, I got bored. Then I fell ill and I didn’t finish reading it. Notwithstanding the fact that I hadn’t read the entire novel, I managed to wr...
I tried but not even pretending to read it with Batman and other assorted fictional character's voices is going to save this for me. Dull. Dull. DULL. Seriously there's like 30 pages of harpoon line! Call me crazy but I DON'T CARE! It's rope! That's all I need to know about it! Ah well. So much for ...
There is a new project; http://www.mobydickbigread.com/ where a chapter a day of Moby Dick is being read (each one by a different famous person) and put online for our delectation - so thats 135 days of Moby Dick. I have never managed to finish this book, will this be the way forward?Well the spoken...
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."Oops! wrong book! I'm going to leave it there just to be contrary, besides "Call me Ishmael." just doesn't really do it for me, sorry Mr. Melville, you should have named him Slartibartfast.Moby - "don't forget the hyphen!" - Dick is a notoriously "diff...
I’ve heard from more than a few people that the lesson of Moby-Dick is that “you can’t take revenge on an animal”. And why not? In concurring with that interpretation, you are in fact quoting one of the world’s most famous literary critics:(And I suspect this is the kind of review a real 8 year-old ...
When I first read Moby Dick about 15 years ago I enjoyed it, but thought that it was overrated and overwritten. The book has however grown in my memory and continues to haunt me. There is some weird magic in all the chapters that are essays on whales and whaling that punctuate the book. Easily th...
So laden with metaphor and consequence, Moby Dick is an intense and purposeful drag. There's a lot of real tension mixed in with extensive philosophizing (hemming and hawing), lecturing, and worrying. There are also a lot of beautiful passages and genuine forehead-slapping moments to make you consid...
It was interesting. It's mostly about whaling, the nobility and necessity of it. And I was born into a culture that is nearly devoid of this activity. I've never had whale meat or used whale oil to light up the dinner table. I enjoyed the historical aspects of this book, and that several of the main...
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