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A review by ameliaow3ns
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
4.0
3.5 stars ⭐
"Forty years of continual whaling! Forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time! Forty years on the pitiless sea! For forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!"
And I thought it would be forty years of me reading this book. But thank the whaling gods that I can finally say that I am free from the brick, the whale encyclopedia, the monster that is Moby Dick.
While Melville's writing is exquisitely detailed, 9 times out of 10 I wouldn't recommend getting to know the narrator on a first name basis, for your own personal wellbeing.
"Forty years of continual whaling! Forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time! Forty years on the pitiless sea! For forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!"
And I thought it would be forty years of me reading this book. But thank the whaling gods that I can finally say that I am free from the brick, the whale encyclopedia, the monster that is Moby Dick.
While Melville's writing is exquisitely detailed, 9 times out of 10 I wouldn't recommend getting to know the narrator on a first name basis, for your own personal wellbeing.