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Mar 25, 2012
Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!}
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it was amazing
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not the exact edition i have but the same pages and both abridged. I'm tired of searching for a 1949 edition I have.
Rating: 4.5, I struggled with rating this a 4 or a 5.
I really enjoyed reading this. Melville is very verbose, but his writing is very poetic. I wanted to frame a few paragraphs and hang them on my wall to adore.
I enjoyed the fishing parts, but some might find that boring and tedious.
I also came across a few moments of homosexual subtext, but enough for a glbt bookshelf.
If you are g ...more
Rating: 4.5, I struggled with rating this a 4 or a 5.
I really enjoyed reading this. Melville is very verbose, but his writing is very poetic. I wanted to frame a few paragraphs and hang them on my wall to adore.
I enjoyed the fishing parts, but some might find that boring and tedious.
I also came across a few moments of homosexual subtext, but enough for a glbt bookshelf.
If you are g ...more
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Turnslip
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Elizabeth Stultz
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Ana
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Laurentiu Lazar
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May 01, 2011
Jelena
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Nov 13, 2011
Hettie
marked it as tbr-eventually
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Jun 28, 2012
Roslyn
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