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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 638,999 ratings — published 1851
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as moby)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,698 ratings — published 1999
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as moby)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,203 ratings — published 2000
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,860 ratings — published 2023
The Whale: A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,153 ratings — published 2016
How I Grew My Penis And Other Porn Industry Secrets (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,057 ratings — published
Around the World in 80 Days (Great Illustrated Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,640 ratings — published 1977
Porcelain: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,483 ratings — published 2016
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 4.52 — 20,591 ratings — published 1977
The Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,318 ratings — published 1977
Little Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,669 ratings — published 1977
Why Read Moby-Dick? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,656 ratings — published 2010
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,444 ratings — published -750
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.68 — 340,701 ratings — published 1719
Mocha Dick: The Legend and Fury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.45 — 64 ratings — published 2014
Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 4.29 — 359 ratings — published 2011
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,662,149 ratings — published 2012
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,507,101 ratings — published 2011
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,793,914 ratings — published 2005
The Art of Fielding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.99 — 117,572 ratings — published 2011
Now and Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as moby)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,974 ratings — published 1995
“Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers. As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors. I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty. I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical description of the various species, or - in this place at least - to much of any description. My object here is simply to project the draught of a systematization of cetology. I am the architect, not the builder. (moby dick chap 32 p131)”
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“I'd heard "Rhapsody in Blue" a thousand times and it always amazed me. It was so humble and then so bombastic. It was beautiful, bright, and terrifying: old and new, European and American. At times it sounded like Debussy, at times it sounded like Stravinsky, and at times it sounded like the Lower East Side in 1910.
"Rhapsody in Blue" was a quintessentially New York work of art, but it was also about moving from east to west, from the old world to the new...”
― Porcelain: A Memoir
"Rhapsody in Blue" was a quintessentially New York work of art, but it was also about moving from east to west, from the old world to the new...”
― Porcelain: A Memoir
