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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Start date: June 1, 2023

Finish date: July 1, 2023

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

Why we're reading this: Revisit the Shelf June 2023

2nd Quarter Long Read 2017

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[close] Revisit the Shelf June 2023

2nd Quarter Long Read 2017

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Feb 17, 2012 Trisha rated it it was ok

Shelves: classics

This might have been the dullest, slowest, most boring-est book that I have ever read. Ever. Yes, the narration was beautiful, but even that cannot turn 100 pages on whale anatomy into something interesting. The entire story of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick is roughly 50 pages long, the other 430 pages are composed of the history of whaling, the spout hole, the anatomy of every single part of the whale, the evolution of whales and the many uses of the different whale parts. The only thing that woul ...more

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Nov 01, 2014 Andreea rated it liked it

For some reason today I felt like reading another classic - also got more classics for this month because I'm really into them.

I don't know exactly what made me reread Moby-Dick but I am glad I did because I changed my opinion about it. It is actually quite a nice book and a lovely read. The descriptions in it are beautiful and the story has really nice themes that as an ignorant teenager I didn't want to see. ...more

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