A review by wildbear
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

2.0

Gets better as it gets going but ultimately too tenuous to justify even its relatively small page count; and the prose, at times, somehow felt much harder and more inscrutable than Moby Dick too, without one-tenths of the rewards. Again, I started detecting some pulses towards the end so I might come around to it but as stands this was quite a tedious read.