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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Far FAR too long. The actual story is ok, but there's so much pointless stuff round it that it's hard work to get through
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
dark
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Only took me about 10 years and 4 attempts to finish this
Honestly what a huge accomplishment. I’ve spent years shit talking Moby Dick and have never been able to get into it. Through an odd chain of events I picked it up and was HOOKED. Is there too much whale info? YES. It is very long? YES. Are Ahab and Ismael hilarious? YES. Am I Team Moby Dick? YES.
Ended up being a fun read
Ended up being a fun read
If this book had been edited down to an action packed 200 pages it would have been quite a good book, instead it's stretched out to 660 with endless rambling chapters on random whaling facts, like how to get the blubber off a whale, what kind of rope is useful at sea, or whether a whale is a fish or not.
It's bizarre because the start and the end of the book are quite compelling, but the middle just wanders about aimlessly. Maybe it's supposed to conjure up the feeling of aimlessly floating about waiting to find whales but I just found it so dull and dense I stopped reading for about six months.
It's bizarre because the start and the end of the book are quite compelling, but the middle just wanders about aimlessly. Maybe it's supposed to conjure up the feeling of aimlessly floating about waiting to find whales but I just found it so dull and dense I stopped reading for about six months.
O que Butcher's Crossing fez na terra, Moby Dick fez no mar. O godzilla americano (mesmo que profético): um monstro que tanto é um fenômeno da natureza como um prelúdio de uma prática econômica decadente.
Entre muitas outras, nunca vou esquecer da breve, mas fascinante passagem em que Melville narra sobre as sombras dos navios da perspectiva das baleias.
Entre muitas outras, nunca vou esquecer da breve, mas fascinante passagem em que Melville narra sobre as sombras dos navios da perspectiva das baleias.
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Queequeg and Starbuck are the only likeable characters. Everyone else is a piece of shit who forces everyone to suffer because he can't process emotions in a healthy way (Ahab), or a sheep or just lets themself be pulled down with said POS. Ishamel fauning over him is disgusting and not something anyone being abused by an authority figure they can't escape anytime soon should be reading.
I actually liked the initial part of this book. Chapter three was a somehow hilarious account of Ishmael failing to fall asleep on a bench. But it was all downhill from there. Whales are not fucking fish, Melville! Signed, a taxonomist who lost a few braincells reading Ishmael's illogical treatise chapter misclassifying them while being insufferable, thinking he was a smart cookie (no Ishmael does not understand that all amniotes are descended from fish; and scientists joke that all amniotes are fish because we're descended from them, but that's tongue-in-cheek because the "fish" is not an actual taxonomic term).
I actually liked the initial part of this book. Chapter three was a somehow hilarious account of Ishmael failing to fall asleep on a bench. But it was all downhill from there. Whales are not fucking fish, Melville! Signed, a taxonomist who lost a few braincells reading Ishmael's illogical treatise chapter misclassifying them while being insufferable, thinking he was a smart cookie (no Ishmael does not understand that all amniotes are descended from fish; and scientists joke that all amniotes are fish because we're descended from them, but that's tongue-in-cheek because the "fish" is not an actual taxonomic term).
Content Warnings
If you are or have ever been stuck under the thumb of someone controlling and abusive, this book is liable to dredge up some really dark shit.