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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Start date: October 1, 2022

Finish date: December 31, 2022

Discussion: Quarterly Read

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Jul 16, 2016 Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, american-19th-c, classics, favorites, novels

QUICK UPDATE: James Cameron totally ripped off and plagiarized Melville in the abysmally written Avatar 2. He should have listed Moby Dick in the credits…(view spoiler)

I re-read Moby-Dick following my research trips to the whaling museums of New Bedford and Nantucket whaling museums. The particular edition I read from University of California Press is HIGHLY recommended as the typeface is extremely agreeabl ...more

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Dec 16, 2022 Diane Zwang rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you

I listened to Moby Dick Big Read and I enjoyed that each chapter was read by a different individual. The website also had corresponding art work for each chapter. This is a long book with a lot of chapters,135 in all and details abound which contributed to its length. The last three chapters do have the most excitement but by the time I got there I did not care.

According to the Big Read website “The slaughter of whales continues. Every year over 2,000 whales are killed for profit.”

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