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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

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Jun 11, 2023 Cynda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, read2017, novel, read-2023

First Read in 2017 & Reread in 2023.

When I read in 20217 with GR Catching Up on the Classics, I did a first.read, reading off as quickly as I could off of Gutenberg just to input some basic data and understanding of the text. With that read, I let Nathaniel Philbrick guide me through the text, develop understanding by reading his Why Read Moby-Dick? and remembering having previously read Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.

Now in 2023, I was ready to put on m ...more

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Feb 23, 2015 Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books-challenge

Plot? Who needs a plot in a novel the size of Moby Dick? Wouldn't anyone rather read many, many chapters about whale phrenology and fragmented streams of semi-random factoids, rumors and musings on whales, whalers and the 'noble' work of killing whales? There is a story embedded in this book, but it is as if Melville is doing everything he can to circumlocute around the story, only accidentally hinting at the action of the voyage to hunt Moby Dick, growing even more vague as Ahab finds the whale ...more

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