false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg 3733 3 "Moby-Dick," Melville's masterpiece, is one of the great epics in all of literature. Ahab's idolatrous hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, the sublime indifference of nature, and the grimy physical details of whale-oil extraction provide a reflective counterpoint. Sometimes read as a terrifying study of monomania or as a critical inquiry into the sinister effects of reducing life to symbols, "Moby-Dick" also offers colorful and comic glimpses of life aboard a whaling ship. This second volume of Melville's complete prose in The Library of America also includes two other stories of the sea: "Redburn," which relates a young man's initiation into the sailor's life, and "White-Jacket," a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy. All three are presented in the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry texts. 7492 15 4 1983 Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America) total:277|5:122|4:75|3:54|2:11|1:15| 277 1109 405 43 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 1 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Feb 21 20:10:06 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 12:46:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 true Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 09:28:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 07:52:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 09:57:27 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 10:09:21 -0700 2008
Ok, that was a monster of a book. I think it took me two months to read. It hasn't taken me two months to read a book since I was 10 and tried to read the Lord of the Rings.

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I'm not going to write a review of Moby-Dick. It's one of those books that everyone should read, and nothing I say will convince you one way ...more...]]> 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 0 0 false Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 17 14:16:21 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 14:18:17 -0800 2009 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Wed Nov 18 19:31:55 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:35:38 -0800 2009 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Dec 12 17:45:17 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 18:01:36 -0800 2008 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 false Sat Nov 22 17:15:38 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 17:15:45 -0800 2008 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 0 0 false Wed Nov 26 07:18:33 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 07:18:33 -0800 2008 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 false Fri Jan 09 16:39:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 16:40:04 -0800 2009 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 3 0 false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 15:25:59 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 29 18:41:14 -0700 2008
White-Jacket strikes me as less successful; interesting and effective chiefly for its account of the cruelties of the US ...more...]]> 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Nov 22 09:05:53 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 09:09:03 -0800 2008 1 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 5 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jun 08 17:03:56 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 08 17:09:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 0 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Dec 18 18:05:15 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 18:06:05 -0800 2008 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 0 0 false Fri Dec 19 10:38:56 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 10:39:25 -0800 2008 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 0 0 false Fri Feb 06 09:22:49 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 09:23:12 -0800 2009 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 0 0 false Sat Nov 21 08:39:57 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 08:39:57 -0800 2009 3733 0940450097 9780940450097 277 42 4.00 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349962m/3733.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3733.Herman_Melville_Redburn_White_Jacket_Moby_Dick 3 0 false Thu Aug 23 08:51:49 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 00:25:11 -0700 2007 A whale of a tale or two
'Bout the flappin' fish and the girls I've loved
I swear by my tattoo

I'm going to go out on a limb and give it neither a love rating nor a hate rating. Learned more about whales than anyone should need to kno...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3733