jbfarkas 's review for:

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville

4.0

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Not much to add to what has already been said. I can see how people love this book! The final chapters with the chase of Moby Dick are probably some of the best action sequences ever written. There is great humor in many of the characters and early portions of the novel and certainly some of the most complex/compelling characters in fiction. I read an unabridged version which included the digressions into whaling history and whale anatomy which actually was great as I was reading during the holidays and could pick up and put down as needed. If you haven't read this... Your literature teachers were right. You definitely should.