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Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
by Herman Melville
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
O how mighty we humans tend to think of ourselves, we restless, willful creatures with such hunger that are hard to be pacified!
Struggled through every fear, dissected even what we revered, all in the name of our thirsts! For them we’ve come so far that the great shroud of the sea is being largely unveiled—but never ever absolutely, and the ones who want to triumph over nature will find themselves in Ahab’s ending—for I believe there definitely exists a being like the white whale that is Moby Dick of the secret sea!
Melville distorted the fact that sperm whales are not the largest of all whales in order to bring more awe to Moby Dick, but his technique didn’t work with me. What he had refused to admit made his epic tale closer to a complete lie. Ishmael’s undeniable truth became hyperboles, and more than a few times this reduced my enjoyment of the entire book immensely.
Struggled through every fear, dissected even what we revered, all in the name of our thirsts! For them we’ve come so far that the great shroud of the sea is being largely unveiled—but never ever absolutely, and the ones who want to triumph over nature will find themselves in Ahab’s ending—for I believe there definitely exists a being like the white whale that is Moby Dick of the secret sea!
Melville distorted the fact that sperm whales are not the largest of all whales in order to bring more awe to Moby Dick, but his technique didn’t work with me. What he had refused to admit made his epic tale closer to a complete lie. Ishmael’s undeniable truth became hyperboles, and more than a few times this reduced my enjoyment of the entire book immensely.