A young man sets sail aboard the Pequod searching for adventure. He encounters the ship's captain, Ahab, who is obsessed with finding the whale who maimed him.
The book is 1/3 story, 2/3 lessons on anything and everything to do with whales.
It could be argued that the book is like a whale itself: full of a lot of blubber offering details and more details of all things whale ( good, bad, ugly, sweet and foul) throughout the entire middle of the novel. However, even among these useless chapters is found profound passage regarding life still relevant to today.
Some of these passages are oftentimes funny, thrilling and philosophical. And the passages describing Ahab's anger, madness and desired revenge towards Moby Dick are just riveting
Having the audiobook as I read the book most definitely helped. The
irrelevant parts that added nothing to the plot were traversable because of audiobook. The narrator's voice gave Ahab's character the gravitas it needed to show how haunting Ahab's vengeance towards the whale was.
Overall: the novel * * *. 3 stars. The audiobook narrated by William Hootkins gets * * * * * * 6 stars.
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The book is 1/3 story, 2/3 lessons on anything and everything to do with whales.
It could be argued that the book is like a whale itself: full of a lot of blubber offering details and more details of all things whale ( good, bad, ugly, sweet and foul) throughout the entire middle of the novel. However, even among these useless chapters is found profound passage regarding life still relevant to today.
Some of these passages are oftentimes funny, thrilling and philosophical. And the passages describing Ahab's anger, madness and desired revenge towards Moby Dick are just riveting
Having the audiobook as I read the book most definitely helped. The
irrelevant parts that added nothing to the plot were traversable because of audiobook. The narrator's voice gave Ahab's character the gravitas it needed to show how haunting Ahab's vengeance towards the whale was.
Overall: the novel * * *. 3 stars. The audiobook narrated by William Hootkins gets * * * * * * 6 stars.
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