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Well. This was my first successful experiment with DailyLit. For about 2/3s of a year I read small sections of this novel that were emailed to me. I'm not sure it was the greatest way of reading a novel, there were times when I skimmed only to say I had read for the day, and sometimes I was tired, and towards the end I began letting the emails collect in my inbox to read more at a time, but otherwise I'm not sure I would have gotten through this. What's sad is that I had huge expectations of bei
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Considered an encyclopedic novel. Never heard of this before but it fits. In this story based on the author's whaling voyage in 1841, Moby Dick, or the white whale, inspired by Mocha Dick and the sinking of the whaleship Essex. The detail is very realistic and in this book you not only learn about whale hunting, you learn about whales and porpoise and ships. Chapters are dedicated to lengthy descriptions. On the ship, the reader is introduced to a cultural mixture of class and social status as w
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This is considered by many to be "the great American novel". It certainly is impressive, but not so much for the storytelling as the enormous amount of research Melville put in the book about whales and the whaling profession. The erudite and often long-winded passages about the anatomy of the whale, the different types of whales, why whales were hunted and their uses were all very interesting, but I felt I was reading a textbook more often than a novel. The very end of the book was the best, wh
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Jul 26, 2009
Diane
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Aug 19, 2012
Kristen
marked it as to-read
