Reviews for Moby Dick
Review - Moby Dick
This book is screaming for abridgement. Take out the chapters on the beauty of the sperm whale's head and it's a pretty good story.
Reviewed by Roger on 1998-09-10 12:00:00
Moby Dickby Herman Melville | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - Historical" |
| Pages: | 608 |
| Year of Publication: | 1851 |
| Date Read: | 04/10/1993 |
| Notes: | The narrator (“Call me Ishmael”) tells of the last voyage of the ship Pequod out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Captain Ahab is obsessed with the pursuit of the white whale Moby-Dick. The richly symbolic language and tragic hero are indicative of Melville’s deeper concerns: the equivocal defeats and triumphs of the human spirit and its fusion of creative and murderous urges. COMMENTS — Although we generally recommend that you read unabridged books, this might be one of the exceptions. The chapters that carry the storyline are interrupted by chapters on the fine details of whales and whaling. |
| My Rating: | 7 |