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| Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3675
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0140620621
EAN: 9780140620627
ASIN: 0140620621
Publication Date: April 28, 1994
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the culturally and spiritually diverse crew of the Pequod, a 19th century whaling ship. The Pequod is on its last voyage out of New Bedford, Mass, in pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale which has been Ahab's obsessional quarry and bitter adversary for many years. Narrated by sole survivor Ishmael, the tale forms a complex fictional fusion, combining a wealth of literary symbolism, hidden meaning and philosophical debate with adventure narrative and a detailed historical account of the 19th century whaling trade. --Emily Lowson
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 Doesn't even deserve one star, it's that bad June 28, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
The author seems to think it far more appropriate to let us all know what a well-educated fellow he is by the use of overblown pompous classical waffling, than to tell the story. Avoid this awful book.
 a bit drawn out but amazing prose December 1, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow! Every aspiring writer should give this a read...or then again maybe they shouldn't since it may be too depressing to read something this good. Like Joseph Conrad's works, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, Moby-Dick is somewhat autobiographical, at least in the sense that Melville took to the high seas in a whaling boat in the middle of his life, prior to writing this. As a high schooler I found this book terribly boring, but now I mainly see it as amazingly well written. Kids probably shouldn't be forced to read classic literature because they generally don't appreciate it. In a sense, the whole novel is one long buildup to the final devastating scene, and perhaps there's some Freudian or other indirect psychological meaning to that layout of the story, but you'll have to find an expert for the correct interpretation. Apparently, Melville wasn't particularly commerically successful in his lifetime, partly because he was unconventional in style and wouldn't crank out mindless rubbish. Billy Budd is also certainly worth reading again. In summary, Moby-Dick should be required reading for every adult! Author of Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health.
This book took me forever to read! November 6, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very hard work but it is worth it. It quite like dickens in that you have keep checking the footnotes to understand what on earth they are talking about. I suppose it is the polar opposite to the generic american airport reader. Fortunately I have met few people a cursed as Ahab...
 Good for whaling information, bad for storytelling October 17, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In short, the story is about a man chasing down a whale in an act of revenge. It's not a complicated story, it's well written and to this extent I liked it.
The trouble is that this book is far more a document about whaling, going off for long sections about very minor details about the old industry and giving up any attempt at storytelling. Which is good or bad, depending on what you're looking for.
If you want a straight story, I'd leave this alone or be prepared to skip parts. If you want a story, come documentary book about whaling, look no further.
One note, this book can be found easily and just as cheap in any high street bookshop without having to pay postage which will nearly amount to the book.
Too scholarly for me August 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The prose is so vivid that the only comparison that comes to mind is Shakespeare. Some sentences or paragraphs are so finely wrought as to hit you between the eyes, and as such I can say that I am glad I have read it, and if life were longer I might even read it again. However, I have to concede that the book is very hard work. What story there is all takes place in the last 25 pages and is an action tour-de-force, but the previous 400 or so pages are lengthy and wordy digressions on whales, whaling and all conceivable ancillary topics, which at their worst are maddening. The characterisation is poor, unsurprisingly given that so little of the text is devoted to the players. Ishmael, the narrator is virtually a disembodied observer who brings little of himself to the action. Ahab is the tortured megalomaniac for whom we are given no opportunity for sympathy or empathy. All the other human characters, namely the ships crew, are mere automata. Those of a nautical bent might get excited about the details of the ship, the Pequod, which is more lovingly written than the humans or the whales, but I'm not that way inclined.
I can see this book being truly relished by hardcore literature buffs with a love of ships and the sea, but I can't help but feel that just about anyone else would find it very heavy going.
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