Reviews - Moby-Dick. A Norton Critical Edition.

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Moby-Dick. A Norton Critical Edition.

Herman Melville

3.4 AVERAGE

monsieuralfonse's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous informative mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

joraud's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This score just reflects the audiobook. The actual novel of Moby Dick is a 5/5.

mattv54's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

One of my favorite books of all time. So many beautifully written chapters, historical references, well written characters, and humorous moments. Definitely some dry chapters here and there, especially when the whale hunting begins in ernest, but all the chapters written about people are absolute gems. The Pete Cross audiobook was fantastically narrated as well, and made the drier chapters fly by.

moondal514's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging informative reflective slow-paced

The part of me that was a childhood fan of Jeff Smith’s Bone is immaturely giggling at me reading this (for those that don’t know, there is a running gag in Bone that Moby Dick is such a boring book that hearing it read out loud has the magical ability to put anyone that hears it to sleep). Anyways I’m pleased to learn that Bone was wrong and this is for me yet another example of a classic literature book living up to the hype. I just love the way the narration is so conversational yet also so dramatic and embellished. Ishmael sat me down to tell me about his whale conspiracy theories and I was hooked the whole time. A book that deserves every bit of its praise

monikaskopalova's review against another edition

2.0

Uf. Tohle byla výzva. 600 stran o velrybách je na mě trochu moc a tohle prostě ne. Anatomii velryb jsem znát nechtěla a o tom bylo dobrých 500 stran. Sem tam by mi nějaká vsuvka nevadila, ale když to tvořilo většinu knihy. Nezajímavé, nudné. Posledních 150 stran už za něco stálo a užila jsem si je, proto 2 a ne 1 hvězdička.