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ejrathke 's review for:
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville
This is sort of a condensed Moby Dick in many ways.
It's quite brilliant and powerful and full of hypocrisy, absurdity, paradox, and morality. For such a short story [and if you cut this down just to the things that happen in it, it would probably be ten pages long] it's given in hysterical extremes. The prose is not the constant poetry of Moby Dick, but is more that digressive and tangential musing of books more commonly written by the whole postmodern caste of writers.
It certainly won't be for everyone and it moves very slow at first, but the way this is wrapped up and the profound and complex critiques it makes on militarism and religion and humanity are well worth the read.
It's quite brilliant and powerful and full of hypocrisy, absurdity, paradox, and morality. For such a short story [and if you cut this down just to the things that happen in it, it would probably be ten pages long] it's given in hysterical extremes. The prose is not the constant poetry of Moby Dick, but is more that digressive and tangential musing of books more commonly written by the whole postmodern caste of writers.
It certainly won't be for everyone and it moves very slow at first, but the way this is wrapped up and the profound and complex critiques it makes on militarism and religion and humanity are well worth the read.