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Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Abridged)
Book Description:
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D.H. Lawrence wrote, Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
If I had not ended up with two copies of this book, I would not part with this. One of the great novels of American literature for a reason. Suprisingly easy-to-read in spite of years of complaints from college students. If you read no other book in the English language, read this!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A classic I wanted to reread. Still a good read.
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Okay, I admit, it's been a long time since I read this book. But the pain of reading the book is still fresh. The really sad thing is -- I CHOSE to read this book for an Independent Reading course in high school.
It's long. It's boring. Child molesters shouldn't be forced to read it. (Okay, I take that back, make the child molesters read it -- spare the rest of us.)
It's downhill from "Call me Ishmael."
Do yourself a favor and don't read it.
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