moondal514 's review for:

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

5.0

adventurous challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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