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I must admit, I was disappointed. I expected a totally absorbing, action-filled seafaring story. While "Moby Dick" certainly had those elements, they were smothered by Melville's insistence on returning to the nuts and bolts of whaling. This book could have been half its current length and been a much better read.

It's taken me so long to get through this book not because it's boring or anything like that, but because I've read other things in the meantime, like "The Girl Who Kicked

It's taken me so long to get through this book not because it's boring or anything like that, but because I've read other things in the meantime, like "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."