JenKazoo's review
Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America)
by Herman Melville
JenKazoo's review
Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America) by Herman Melville
JenKazoo's review
rating:
recommended for: People who can look beyond the surface
I always planned on reading this book but just kept putting it off until I took an Great American Novels Course. A lot of people think the novel is overrated and while I can see thier point I still have to disagree. There are just so many metaphors and different interpretations of this novel for it not to be one of the greats. You can read it in SO many ways, it is just incredible. I wroThe professor who taught this course is a freudian so you can imagine the kinds of conversations were started during class; they were very entertainging to say the least. I wrote a paper on this novel that I was quite proud of. The more open you are to the imagination and the ablility to read beyond the surface of the plot, the more you will enjoy it. The possibilities are endless in just a few hundred pages.
