A review by agmaynard
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

challenging dark fast-paced

4.0

Read this slowly, at a chapter a day, and it made a positive difference, along with other recent Melville reading, and outstanding reading company. My high school memory was chiefly frustration at passive Billy. Now I see the clear set up for inevitability: it could go no other way. Also in high school, I only had a rudimentary sense of unreliable narrators. Anyway, highly recommended!