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    Moby Dick: or, The Whale
    Moby Dick: or, The Whale
    Moby Dick: or, The Whale
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    Moby Dick: or, The Whale

    By Herman Melville

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    Ishmael joined the crew of the whaling ship Pequod expecting a simple whaling voyage. Little did he know that the captain of the ship is thirsty for revenge against Moby Dick, the great white whale responsible for his missing leg. As the crew sails the ocean, Captain Ahab searches unceasingly for Moby Dick, ignoring warnings and prophecies of doom. When the white whale is finally spotted, a battle ensues that makes this novel by author Herman Melville one of the most epic sea stories of all time. This is an unabridged version of the American classic, which was first published in 1851.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9781467775663
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    Herman Melville

    Herman Melville was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and poet. His most notable work, Moby Dick, is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

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    • 4/5
      Moby Dick is surely one of the great American novels and its non-human protagonist is known to everyone only remotely interested in literature. The story about Captain Ahab and the whale, however, is not that well known at all. I mean, who can really say what happens at the end of Moby Dick? No worries, I will not give away the ending here. Just let me give a brief outline of the setting and the plot. The story is narrated by Ishmael and it is narrated in first person. Ishmael recounts the story of how he came to join Captain Ahab's crew on the Pequod, a whaling ship. Captain Ahab has met the white whale Moby Dick many times, but never managed to finally kill the animal. On the contrary, he was almost defeated by Moby Dick, who cost Ahab one of his legs. This led to Ahab developing an obsession to finally catch and kill Moby Dick. The plot is easily told then. The Pequod sails the oceans in order for Ahab to finally fulfill what seems to be his only remaining purpose in life.Moby Dick is so much more than its plot. A large part of the novel is made up of extensive background information about whales and whaling. Melville chose not to simply entertain his readers with a story but rather educate them on the subject he seems to be so facinated with. The mere story would probably have been told in about half the number of pages, but it is this addendum, let's call it, that makes up for a large part of the reading experience. I do admit that there will be many readers who will be taken aback by the degree of detail Melville put into the educational part of the novel. However, the combination of both background knowledge and a story about finding and killing a whale is what makes this novel exceptional, I think.While Moby Dick was published in 1851, I think the novel is timeless and can be read for many reasons as it includes still relevant themes, the fight of human vs. nature being one of them, and provides the readers with some insights that are as true and important today - or even more so - as they might have been in the 19th century. A case in point:I say, we good Presbyterian Christians should be charitable in these things, and not fancy ourselves so vastly superior to other mortals, pagans and what not (...) I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all - Pagans and Presbyterians alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.I would generally suggest that readers should give Moby Dick a try and see whether it is their cup of tea or not. I can certainly understand both how people admire the novel and how they might find it quite boring. What it came down to for me in the end was, what the reading did with me. After many reading sessions what I had just read did not leave me for quite a bit and this is something that I treasure in books. 3.5 stars.
    • 3/5
      It took me three weeks, but I finished it.

      Oh my... I don't know if I hated it or didn't mind it (certainly didn't love it). It was a chore to read, and reading shouldn't feel that way. I'm glad I got through it, but again I don't think that should be the aim of reading! I can see why it's so lauded, but at the same time I don't believe that something is good just because it is verbose and tome-like. The story was good, but the characters were very underdeveloped. I'd have loved to have known more about their individual stories (especially poor Pip, and Queegueg). I did warm to the chapter upon chapter of whale facts* a little, but I felt they were self indulgent and didn't really add as much to the story as they would have if they were trimmed down a bit to make room for more actual story. At times the prose was beautiful, but at others I found myself reading pages without absorbing a thing. It's an incredible piece of work...but not a great reading experience.

      *after at first Googling whether you could skip those and still follow the book...
    • 3/5
      Meeslepend, maar de onderbrekingen storen toch. Die vertonen trouwens sterke gelijkenis met methode van Herodotus: kritische bevraging van verhalen. Het geheel is niet helemaal geloofwaardig, en vooral het slot is nogal abrupt.Stilistisch vallen de abrupte veranderingen in register en perspectief op, waarschijnlijk toch wel een nieuwigheid. De stijl zelf doet zeer bombastisch, rabelaissiaans aan. Tekening Ahab: mengeling van sympathie en veroordeling
    • 2/5
      My edition had 620 pages. Melville could have told the story in 200, and it would have been a much more enjoyable read. Some folks have accused current generations of having attention deficits due to the snappy editing in TV and movies. We have nothing on Melville, though. Moby Dick is a disjointed and schizophrenic jumble of almost nonexistent plot development, thin character development, solipsistic ramblings, anecdotes, and whaling "lessons".

      I read this book because my copy was a 13th birthday gift given to my grandfather and because it's supposedly a classic. I was throughly disappointed and left wondering what's so classic about it. My grandfather probably liked it, though. He liked the works of James Michener, possibly the most boring writer to ever put ink to paper.

      Kahn was a better Ahab, and Wrath of Kahn was a better Moby Dick. Perhaps Nicholas Myers a better author than Herman Melville.
    • 3/5
      I finally got around to reading this book. The book was a little hard to read due to the more complicated sentence structure used in 1851 when it was published. The book had a lot of potential, but the story was diluted down by all the information on whales. The info was interesting, however, it distracted the reader from the story. I found it odd how one chapter would be "normal" writing, then the next would be older style English, which I didn't like to read. The book could have easily been trimmed by 200 pages and much more character dialogue added to build the story.
    • 1/5
      DNF!(Did NOT Finish!) Tried to read this in 2010. Edition I had was over 500 pages. Got to page 175, and couldn't take anymore! I know it's considered a classic for the themes it represents, but I just couldn't get through it. Just not my cup of tea. I read for sweeping adventure, sci-fi, fantasy, let me escape stuff. Waaay to much descriptive style here for me. If there was an abridged version, with just the adventure parts, I would read it. But that would only be about 50 pages...I know. At least I tried...
    • 4/5
      I listened to the free Librivox recording of the book. The reader did an excellent job.
    • 4/5
      People have said that Moby Dick is an American classic - the ultimate American novel. I've also heard that it is long and tedious and rambles on about things that are only vaguely related to the plot. After finishing this book, I felt that it was a combination of both - a great American epic that depicts the story of a man obsessed with killing a white whale and, at the same time, one of those classics that goes off topic for chapters at a time. I read this book gradually in both audio and print over several weeks, reading bits in between some of my other books. I found myself drawn to it more and more and even talking to others about the book. The descriptions of whaling in the 19th century are fascinating. I thought I would be completely disgusted by the hunting and killing of such a noble animal, but instead, I thought the graphic descriptions of the dangerous lives of the whalers was really impressive and I found myself sharing these stories with my family. Yes, there were chapters (especially the infamous White chapter) that I would finish and not have any idea what was the purpose or benefit of the chapter, but overall, I really enjoyed this book. It is definitely the type of book I would want to visit again, this time trying to understand all the Biblical and mythological references. Definitley deserves to be read by everyone.
    • 4/5
      This is a very challenging book to read, even for a 5th grader like me. I recommend this book to 6th graders, and up, but maybe some 5th graders my age can read it. Even though the language was confusing and there was some minor killing, I have to say the book was awesome.
    • 5/5
      Moby Dick is mesmerizing, evocative and haunting. Though I knew the ending long before reading it, the final scenes have lingered in my mind since finishing it. The driving narrative of the last set of chapters is compelling, and Ahab's final lines, are among the finest in literature:"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee."The tale is well known and needs little summary here. Moby Dick is the story of a whaling expedition lead by the "monomaniacal" Captain Ahab (this appropriate term is used to describe him in the text on numerous occasions, Melville seems to want us to associate it with the character) to find and kill Moby Dick, the great white whale which took his leg. It's also famous for its richness, and there is no shortage of interpretations of what Moby Dick symbolizes, or the deep philosophical themes raised by the book. There is much that could be said about the struggle between Ahab and Moby Dick, and in particular, what it tells us about the relationship between man and the divine. I'm in waters a bit too deep here myself, as I have not read any of the accompanying scholarship. I'm struck however, by a comment by the narrator:"For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error. So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory."This is not evidence that Moby Dick is not also a symbol. Ishmael here is warning us against assuming that Moby Dick is simply a fiction designed to impart a lesson, rather than something real and terrible. That does not imply that, for us, Moby Dick cannot be an allegory. Yet, it dovetails nicely with one of the noteworthy features of the novel, and that is the frequent chapters which step out of the adventure narrative and discuss whaling. These chapters are interesting in their own right, particularly as they represent an interesting combination of systematic, scientific thinking and folk wisdom and anecdote. More to the point, however, these chapters naturalize Moby Dick. He is placed within a natural order, and this natural order is used to explain religious and historical discussions of whales and dragons. Melville goes to lengths to draw us into the reality of the situation, rather than simply asking us to adopt some obvious metaphor about revenge or the divine. This, I suspect, is what gives the work its interpretive richness. Ishmael does not want us to interpret it as an allegory, and so the novel does not wear its meaning openly on its sleeve. In a brief review such as this, I can only say that the novel rewards reflective and engaged reading. The scholarship may be extensive, but any reader will be rewarded for a thoughtful reading which considers the deep currents beneath the surface of the plot.Allow me to give at least one brief example to illustrate this. Ahab's focus on the whale captures the hearts and minds of the crew. They are swept along by the force of his will (indeed, Ahab sees himself as being swept along by divine will or fate). The only one who offers even a semblance of defiance is his first mate Starbuck, who is a devoted Quaker. That might indicate a rather simple interpretation, in which Ahab's pursuit of the terrors of the natural world blinds him to the truth revealed by Starbuck's religion. Yet, matters are more complex. Ahab is the one who moves with religious fervor, and whales are frequently understood in terms of biblical allusions (particularly to the Leviathan). The story of Jonah, swallowed by a whale, features prominently in the novel. Is it instead that Ahab's pursuit of a divine will he cannot comprehend (a theme which reappears at the end of the novel) that destroys him? Is his affinity with Pip, whose experience of the vastness of the divine while adrift, because they are the two characters who understand the immensity of it? That the divine destroys men? Is it instead that Moby Dick is the divine, and that Starbuck's impotence in the end is the failure of conventional religion to comprehend his sort of religious experience? I've been wrestling with such questions throughout the novel, and for anyone looking to think deeply about what they are reading, Moby Dick is a book that one simply ought to read.I'll close with at least a few words about Ahab and the brilliant style of the novel. Ahab is a riveting and incredible character. Yet, throughout much of the middle of the novel, he is curiously absent. His presence is felt, and he has control over the plot, but he pops in and out of the narrative. This effective device keeps the character's mystery from being lost, and his imperative from becoming overwrought. Yet, his appearances serve to drive us along with the Pequod. Early it feels we still might turn around, that while Moby Dick is the aim, he is a long way off. It is only when Ahab takes complete control of the novel, in the final chapters, that it is obvious how inevitable the conclusion really is. We the readers, just as much as the Pequod's crew, are swept away by Ahab's mesmerizing will, towards their destruction. These appearances by Ahab also show how seamlessly Melville moves between styles. The descriptions of whaling are brutal and moving, moving between the common prose of brutality to the language of salons and philosophers. Ishmael draws an analogy between the severed whale heads hanging from either sides of the ship to the philosophical tensions between Locke and Kant. We also see the academic prose of the chapters on whales and whaling coupled with the Shakespearean speeches of Ahab, who dominates every scene in which he speaks. Consider the following passage, from Chapter 70, as Ahab looks over one of those decapitated whale heads:"Speak, thou vast and venerable head ... which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid the world's foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was they most familiar home."Moby Dick is an unforgettable reading experience. The prose is powerful and moving, the adventure is exciting and compelling, and the narrative is thoughtful and thought-provoking.
    • 5/5
      It has been said, and must be said again, that Moby-Dick is for the large part tedious to read, and only a very small portion of the book, notable the last three chapters are full of fury, and heart-throbbing excitement.The endless succession of page-upon-page of knowledge about whaling, are like the vastness of the oceans, and the huge lapses of time that the voyage of the Pequod takes. The sparse encounters with other ships, emphasize the loneliness at sea, especially the isolation of Ahab. (It is a bit odd they never enter a port.)Early in the novel, we are told that few people understand or appreciate the whaling business, and this oversight is clearly and effectively remedied by including so much knowledge about whaling. Some of this knowledge is clearly needed to read the later chapters in the novel. This part of Melville's novel does what Hemingway's Death in the afternoon does for bull fighting.To understand why bull fighting is heroic, and what is the aesthetic value of it, you need a fair amount of knowledge and an open mind. The sincere, and easy-going friendship between Ishmael and Queequeg, which was probably odd in Melville's day, and might even be unusual in ours, shows what it means to be truly open-minded.There are several moments, when the prose takes the shape of "merry comedy", which breaks the dour seriousness of the novel. The second half of the book seems to allow for more humour, as in:The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries. p.424"What's the matter with your nose, there?" said Stubb. "Broke it?""I wish it was broken, or that I didn't have any nose at all!" (...)"But what are you holding yours for?""Oh, nothing! It's a wax nose; I have to hold it on. Fine day, aint it?" p.442-3With chapter 132 entitled "The symphony", the next three chapters are like movements of a symphony, or acts in a ballet. The dance of the whale is splendid and graceful.The best thing about reading Moby-Dick was to get to the story first-hand, and peel or scratch away all the layers of comment and interpretation of others, that had encrusted the this story from my earliest memories. Finishing this book required some perseverance at times, but was ultimately very rewarding.
    • 3/5
      Moby Dick is worth reading, despite being pretty abominable philosophically (and parts of it are seemingly interminable and hard to get through, but I think that's actually a deliberate aesthetic choice on Melville's part). There are parts that are very good. The opening chapters about the friendship that develops between Ishmael and Queequeg are actually quite entertaining, and Melville makes some insightful psychological points through the character of Ahab. There are a lot of sort of proto-postmodernist elements in terms of the novel's form, along with Melville's belief in man's impotence in both thought and action which they represent---but nowhere near to the extent that would come later, in, for example, Ulysses.
    • 2/5
      I read this when I was very young, and I don't really remember it very well. Another for the list of things to reread now I'm older and wiser!
    • 4/5
      That's kind of a guilty four stars up there. I skimmed a lot. My partner, who is...well, he's special...and he loves Melville...read it to the children. I ask you. Of course, he left off while they were still standing about on shipboard, contemplating the waves. The whale hadn't surfaced yet.

      I feel I should love it, and should reread it...but....no, life is too short.
    • 1/5
      A harrowing experience. It starts out so promising... and then the story is put on hold and the perspective is abandoned while Melville writes a series of loosely related essays. For hundreds of pages. By the time the story resumes, I couldn't care less about it; I just want to get through it. After coming so far, you can't NOT finish...
    • 5/5
      Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.Thus begins Moby-Dick, a heavy novel both literally and figuratively, considered one of America's finest tales and written by a master of the English language. It took me nearly three weeks to read this gargantuan book, which I suppose is appropriate. It is a fascinating novel. On the surface, Moby-Dick appears to be a simple adventure tale about the ill-fated voyage of the Pequod, a vessel commanded by the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, who lusts for vengeance against the infamous albino whale that cost him his leg in a previous encounter. It examines the whaling industry in every stark, grisly detail, sparing no account of the dismemberment of the whales or the horrors of the voyage, and while this life may seem romanticised and exotic now, at the time it was a profession regarded on the same level as meatpacking or carpentry. It should not be a masterpiece - and yet it is. Almost the entire story takes place aboard the Pequod, and there are less than ten major characters. Despite these constraints - or perhaps because of them - Moby-Dick is an epic, sprawling novel, touching upon hugely complex themes. The characters speak in grand Biblical and Shakespearean fashion, soliliquising about life, death and the universe, speaking to the reader in frequent asides, contemplating the meaning of their voyage, of their desires, of their true nature. Whalers spent a lot of time at sea, sometimes going years without sighting land. With nothing to look at but the depths of the ocean and the depths of the stars, it's not surprising that their minds turned to thinking about some heavy shit.Ishmael, though he is the narrator, is no major character - this is Captain Ahab's story, the story of a tragic hero in the Greek fashion, his fatal flaw being a completely illogical thirst for vengeance. Ahab is not a bad man, nor a bad captain. He is simply mad, yet not so mad that he does not realise it, and not so mad that he does not take pains to hide it from his crew. The second most important character is Starbuck, the first mate, and the only member of the Pequod's crew who does not get swept up by Ahab's grand, hypnotic speeches and declare to follow the captain into the jaws of hell. Starbuck voices his doubts regularly, frequently clashes with Ahab, and towards the end of the voyage contemplates murdering the man before he gets them all killed. As the book and the voyage draws to a conclusion, and both Starbuck and Ahab grow more tortured and melancholy, this becomes a truly sad story.Melville displays a much greater command of the English language then he did in Typee; almost every page contains references to great stories that came before him, to old English literature, to the Bible, to the Greek and Roman canon. Likewise, his own skill with words creates powerful imagery:By midnight the works were in full operation. We were clear from the carcass; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense. But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire. The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed. So the pitch and sulphur-freighted brigs of the bold Hydriote, Canaris, issuing from their midnight harbors, with broad sheets of flame for sails, bore down upon the Turkish frigates, and folded them in conflagrations....Here lounged the watch, when not otherwise employed, looking into the red heat of the fire, till their eyes felt scorched in their heads. Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works. As they narrated to each other their unholy adventures, their tales of terror told in words of mirth; as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards out of them, like the flames from the furnace; as to and fro, in their front, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul.Any masterpiece has its flaws, of course - Moby-Dick's is the enormous pile of tedious chapters in which Melville, via Ishmael, feels obliged to dump all the knowledge of the whale he has accumulated over his career onto the reader. He discusses the head, the spine, the tail, the skeleton, the whale's distribution, whale psychology, whale herding behaviour, laws pertaining to whaling and so forth. He gushes on and on about the whale's sublime form, its majesty, its titanic beauty, that I eventually felt like shouting "JUST HAVE SEX WITH ONE ALREADY." Moby-Dick has been successfully adapted to the stage for three reasons: the small cast of characters, the single setting, and the fact that at least half the book consists of completely superfluous chapters that can easily be cut. I understand why they're there, but there was no need whatsoever to have quite that amount of them, or even to award them separate chapters rather than weaving them into the main narrative.In spite of its flaws, I was impressed by this book. It did grow tedious towards the end, and I do have trouble reading stories more than a hundred years old (let alone those that employ lofty Shakespearean dialogue). I wouldn't exactly say that I enjoyed it. But I was intrigued by it, and swept up in it, and as the tragic overtones become more explicit towards the conclusion, I was moved by it. I am glad that I read it, and glad that it exists. Moby-Dick is truly an amazing piece of writing, and has rightfully earned its place in the firmament of literary history.
    • 1/5
      Too many details about the ships!
    • 4/5
      A bit dated, but great nonetheless.
    • 3/5
      One if not THE greatest American Novel.
    • 5/5
      Five reasons why I like Moby-Dick1. The humor: Not many mentions this, but this american classic is actually hilarious. From the descriptions of Ishmael unwittingly sharing a bed with the cannibal-"savage" Queequeg, Father Mabbles sermon on Jonah (brimming with doom and damnation), Stubbs' raging commands of the fishermen - Ahabs insanity - oh, I just smile and laugh a lot reading it.2. The whale: Obviously. With this wild, sea monster Melville has created an immortal symbol - as in Spielbergs movie Jaws - Moby Dick is anticipated for a long time - actually only surfacing in the very end of the novel, but before that Melville has painted such a living description of that dreaded Leviathan. Both very real but also a mythic being encapsulating all what man dreads or hold dear. Whatever it represents to the reader. For me mostly I like the idea of something transcendent beyond our grasp that we can't control or fully describe or understand. Untamable. And of course we have the great finale, when we see Moby Dick in action. We need a bigger boat, could be a quote from Moby Dick and not Jaws. Oh, what a whale. 3. The tedious parts that totally disregard or interrups the narrative. All those chapters with whale classifications etc. that students dread and have cursed over. Well, not all these chapters, but in fact a lot of them are really not that tedious. Melville constantly blend the down-to-earth scientific explanations with philosophical, spiritual and Old Testament musings - as in the chapter The whiteness of the Whale. It's so brilliant.4. Captain Ahab: Insane, stubborn, selfish. Totally absorbed in his doomed quest for revenge - like an obsessed wild man that has lost any grib on reality, he's beyond redemption. Another immortal Melville-creation. Slowly Ishmael realizes what expedition his resless nature has embarked on. Exploration comes with a prize. 5. The interpretation: While I write these lines someone on a university somewhere are struggling to find the deeper meaning of Moby-Dick. A horror novel, a microcosmos of civilization searching to tame nature, a "modern" greek tragedy warning of the passions of human beings, Old Testament judgment story. What does the whale represent? What is Melville up to? [Moby Dick] seems to have so many layers of meaning and possible interpretations. Great.
    • 3/5
      On June 28, 1949, I said: Reading Moby Dick. Pretentious and--curse of curses--mid-19th centuryish. On July 1 I said: Reading Moby Dick. Should be something of an expert on whaling when I'm finished. Tis loaded with purely descriptive chapters. Of course, I will say that Melville does write somewhat entertaingly if stiltily. On July 9 I said: Finished Moby Dick today. It had a good ending and wasn't really so awful though it had pages and pages of intrinsically non-interesting stuff. I ought to know all about whaling now, but I don't know that I do. In the end, Moby Dick sinks the whole ship "Pequod," only the narrator of the story surviving!
    • 5/5
      What an amazing book. A marathon of a book, slow and careful, meting out information on whales and whaling and the culture that leads to the exciting climax. I can see why some people might have trouble making it through the more "academic" sections (in quotes because, well, science has come a long way since the 1850s), and I have a suggestion for you. I actually got this book on CD from Recorded Books, read by Frank Muller, and listened to it every time I was in the car. Frank Muller does such a wonderful job narrating the unabridged story that even the dry descriptions that don't seem to move the plot forward were engaging.
      I now think of Moby Dick a spiritual text, as full of anecdotes and lessons and symbolism as it is. And it provides more information about the fascinating world of 19th century whaling than I ever thought I'd know. Can you even imagine taking down a massive sperm whale with nothing more than a tiny boat, some spears, and rope? Do you know what it would be like to watch a whale die? And even after it's killed, how on earth would you get the blubber off of it? If you read Moby Dick, you can "experience" all of these things, complete with the success and tragedy that come with them. Plus, the story is really funny! I don't know why no one told me this before. I was actually laughing out loud at many parts, which I did not expect. I would try to give an example here, but it's sort of like re-telling a joke from Shakespeare--the language is so precise and idiosyncratic that I just end up bungling it. But give it a try, and see if you're not already laughing by the end of the first chapter.
      I would highly recommend Moby Dick to anyone, and especially the Recorded Books version read by Frank Muller.
    • 3/5
      In this book a guy named Fedallah wanted to grow up and hunt whales and so one day he did.He went to a hotel to stay for the night and while he was there he meet this crew that hunted whales and they asked Fedllah to join him.So by morning they set off hunting.The captin,Ahab has a steel leg because the Moby Dick atacked him so their main goal was to kill the grat whale.On the way they killed a few small sperm whales and they passed by a few other boats and ships and evrey boat they passed by Ahab asked them is they have seen the great white whale.They all said no but they told him where they might be able to find him.So Ahab and his crew took off.Will Ahab and his crew find the moby dick or will the oppisite happen?
    • 4/5
      One of those books that I'm surprised I never read in high school or college. I have to admit that this being the first time I've read this I know I've missed many layers to truly appreciate the depth of this book. I plan on reading this again next year to get a sense of some of those missed areas. And it will most likely take another reading after that to truly grasp it. So for now four out of five stars.
    • 4/5
      Moby Dick is a slightly mad book: part beautifully poetic novel, part dry manual of mid-19th-century whaling techniques, part drama (some chapters are formatted as a play). It is also presumably as much an exercise in patience as a whaling voyage at the time might have been as the eponymous white whale doesn't actually appear until the last couple of chapters. Yes, there is a lot of middle between the beginning and end of this tale, through which you may find yourself slogging with the monomaniacal determination of Ahab as you also seek to catch sight of the elusive whale.

      I think the beginning is actually the best part. The first chapter or so of Ishmael's longing to go to sea always comes to my mind whenever I'm at the coast or near a body of water larger than a puddle, seeing how true it is that nobody looks inland when they can stare out at the waves. The whole novel is not the best book I've ever read, but what I love is this distilled essence of being on the sea shore at the very edge where the land meets the ocean.
    • 4/5
      I can't imagine that any paltry review I should write would do justice to this Leviathan, over which so much ink has been spilled these many years. E'en so, I shall endeavor to offer my thoughts, though they be incomplete, and insufficient, and nigh forgotten.

      I delighted in the style and progress of this book. I can see how many would find it distasteful, and others a source of ennui, and still more a drab and distraught description of a dreary occupation. But I reveled in the work, in the detail, in moments both of focus and of bleary-eyed dedication to the craft.

      Yet now I wax poetical, and I digress. The book is a monstrosity, like its final subject, the Leviathan - but in the same way, as Melville describes that creature as noble, even divine, his masterpiece warrants the term. I only wish that I could get away with such writing - indeed, that I could come up with it at all. I enjoyed this book immensely.

      On the other hand, it was not perfect. That selfsame style, which I so enjoyed, creates a lackluster performance in the moments of greatest stress. The chase, the hunt, and the battle are as afar-off, distant, and vague. We observe the most thrilling events as one might observe liquid pigmentation exsiccating. Don't misunderstand: I loved the detail; but it lent itself to exceeding dullness, when things ought to be most exciting.

      Furthermore, Melville tells the tale from the perspective of one Ishmael, a sailor who signs on with the Pequod, the ill-fated ship of Captain Ahab. We follow Ishmael, and his friend, Queequeg, for the majority of the book. Indeed, the book that purports to tell the tale of Ahab neglects to speak a word about the man for pages and pages on end. A huge swath of the book passes by without even a mention of the dreaded monomaniac.

      To be fair, though, Melville mirrors this neglect at the other end. As we near the finish of this tome, perhaps around the hundredth chapter, we seem to have completely forgotten Ishmael and any sense of perspective. We hear from Starbuck, the first mate; we hear from Ahab, from Pip, from Fedallah, but nary a word from old Ishmael, our first and last narrator. Perhaps Melville meant it this way, so he could close with an epilogue where he details Ishmael's escape in brief - but it seems more like Melville himself got caught up in the tale of Ahab and his monomania, completely forgetting the original perspective of his story. It seems, to me at least, a shortcoming.

      There are other failings. Melville's notions of nobility and divinity in the whale hint at a blasphemy that does not end there. While the author condemns the Satanism, the violent dedication of the villainous captain, he carries on - through Ishmael - an unpleasant trust in paganism and pantheism. Abandoning the Christian values he at times espouses, he embraces a universalist idea, that pagans and barbarians and Christians all worship, in earnest or in vain, to their own salvation or damnation. In short, his religious views are weak, and flagrantly oppose good moral sense and piety.

      And yet, all told, the book is a boon and a delight. You may disagree; you are so allowed. It would not surprise me. But I am better for the reading.
    • 5/5
      one of the best reasons to spend hours alone reading--sorry--feasting on a gargantuan narrative stew of character, ideas and gleefully strange form. equally tragic and funny. i love love love this book...
    • 4/5
      Some "great" books are more to be admired for their reputation than their content: not so Moby Dick. I had had this tome upon my shelves for more than two years; one of those books which one ought to own, but did I want to go to the trouble of reading its 580 pages?I was shamed into answering this question in the affirmative, by an internet reading of the work, the prequel to which was a setting of its historical position in the line of the novel. It takes very few pages for the story to grip and, once Moby Dick has got its teeth into the reader, rather like Captain Ahab, resistance is futile. I have to be honest, I did find that the tale became becalmed a midships but, I think that this had more to do with the modern expectation for instant reward rather than any fault with the book.I expect that, like me, most people only know this book as pursuit of a giant whale, Moby Dick, by Captain Ahab. There is so much more to the story; in part, it is a history of the whaling trade in the mid nineteenth century, in part the story of Ishmael, our narrator's passage from a green horn to a whaler and the story of an obsession. The ending, I found genuinely shocking: sometimes ignorance has its own rewards, and I am glad that I was able to come to this book armed with so little foreknowledge. I shall not spoil the tale for anyone lucky enough to be contemplating the reading thereof from a similar base, I shall simply envy you the pleasure to come.Melville did go to sea and, indeed, serve upon a whaling vessel. I do not have the knowledge to confirm the accuracy of his (or Ishmael's) descriptions, but they do ring true. I was particularly fascinated by the mixture of admiration and callousness that the crew hold for Moby Dick. One needs to remember the age being described and subsume our Western revulsion of the haranguing of this King of the seas; the attitude then was so different and, lest we should get too carried away by the enhancement to civilisation that the years have gifted us, I am sure that even the fixated Captain Ahab would have been horrified by the way in which we have pushed these proud beasts so near to extinction.Do not be put off by this book's reputation, READ IT!!!!
    • 3/5
      It's Moby Dick. There's not much new I can say about it. I'm proud to have finished it, although I frankly believe you could legitimately skip the entire middle third of it--the whaling manual--and it would be a better book. Suffice it to say that Conrad's Heart of Darkness touches most of the same themes and manages to be one the best books in the English language; Moby Dick, in my humble opinion, does not.
    • 2/5
      I am surprised by how actively I disliked this book. Let me tell you why: I expected too much from it. Moby Dick is one of those classic novels every person should read. It has been sitting on my shelf since high school. After putting myself on a book diet, I finally set aside the time to read this 600+ page behemoth.It started out fine. The main character Ishmael is in search of an adventure on a whaling ship. He shows up at a mysterious lodge in a whaling town and runs into a strange pacific Indian fellow named Queequeg. They make odd bedfellows, literally, but they grow to respect and appreciate each other. They board a ship together with some suspicion they will be cheated by the ship owners who are willing to offer little in terms of financial reward.At this point in the story you expect some kind of buddy-buddy facing an adventure that reaches an arc, then resolves itself. What we get instead is a long diatribe about the various species of whales, the methods of whaling, and many other technicalities that abandon the plot that has been developed to this point.The plot turns out is really secondary in this novel, and this is what irked me the most. The narrator Ishmael is drowned out by another voice without a name who not only gives the technical details of whaling but who takes over the telling of the entire rest of the story. We never hear from Ishmael again.There are some interesting sections regarding the gruesome, awful, and difficult challenges of catching a whale. This is all fairly interesting from a lay perspective. And one hopes that all of these details become useful in understanding the future direction of the story.Such a view is optimistic, as it turns out. The story turns from a technical description of whaling, to the strange meanderings of a ship led by a captain who is himself rather unfeeling and single minded with regard to catching a certain white whale that ate his leg a few years back. One understands this captain Ahab has a mission and is willing to do anything to follow through with it. One appreciates that a man such as this is wiling to do anything to get his revenge, including put the lives of his ship mates at risk. But we learn fairly little about Ahab himself.The story turns into an aimless wandering in search of the white whale. Once he is discovered, a mere three out of the 140 chapters are consumed in telling what happens during the encounter. At the end of this, the story ends.Some have called Moby Dick one of the great American novels. I can see why various literary critics in the 1940s may have believed this at a time when America was at war with the world. Adventure, cruelty, danger, and other themes abounded in stories of the war. Moby Dick was a defunct piece of literature until it was rediscovered in the early 20th century.Today, Moby Dick is an anachronism. It was pilloried by contemporary critics in the 1840s. I can see why. But Moby Dick as the great American novel reflects the perspective of a certain time that has passed. The novel should be read more to evoke a certain romantic ethos and to reflect on a certain time, but in its current form the novel tells little to a contemporary reader.

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    Moby Dick - Herman Melville

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