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A review by murtin
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
4.0
4.25/5⭐
honestly, this is very very good.
I get why people don't like it, yes, it does have a lot of whale information that some people find "useless" and annoying, but isn't a big reason people read books is to acquire knowledge? so why do they find this specifically annoying? I personally enjoyed them, I'm obviously not going to be a cetologist, but a little information about the world that I would otherwise never find out is something I don't mind, it's just something you have to be ready for. when I started reading this book I expected purely narrative, but this book has quite an amount of whale facts that are not related to the story at all, as I said previously, this is just something you have to be ready for, not something that completely ruins a book.
and honestly, the story is pretty basic, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
this book has some deep themes like madness and free will vs fate so there is definitely a philosophical side to the book. however, what I really enjoyed is the basic premise of living on a whaleship at sea.
On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
I think that perfectly demonstrated Ahab's madness, because of his emotional revenge-seeking voyage, people with families, dreams and feelings perished into the abbyss.
honestly, this is very very good.
I get why people don't like it, yes, it does have a lot of whale information that some people find "useless" and annoying, but isn't a big reason people read books is to acquire knowledge? so why do they find this specifically annoying? I personally enjoyed them, I'm obviously not going to be a cetologist, but a little information about the world that I would otherwise never find out is something I don't mind, it's just something you have to be ready for. when I started reading this book I expected purely narrative, but this book has quite an amount of whale facts that are not related to the story at all, as I said previously, this is just something you have to be ready for, not something that completely ruins a book.
and honestly, the story is pretty basic, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
this book has some deep themes like madness and free will vs fate so there is definitely a philosophical side to the book. however, what I really enjoyed is the basic premise of living on a whaleship at sea.
Spoiler
And WOW the ending is brutal, I kinda expected them to kill the whale, and even if they didn't, I expected that they would escape, but the actual ending left me broken, especially the last line of the epilogue.On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
I think that perfectly demonstrated Ahab's madness, because of his emotional revenge-seeking voyage, people with families, dreams and feelings perished into the abbyss.