Moby Dick or, The Whale (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

from nbmars

Call me impressed. The blurb on the jacket of this audio book calls it a "breathtaking masterwork," but actually, it's better than that! It is a epic and staggering tale every bit as big as its subject matter--the largest of all living creatures and the edacious, relentless men who hunt and kill ...

from jeff.maynes

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 th...

from tuckerresearch

The greatest American novel, a "dense symbolist tome," and perhaps one of the best novels of all time. Encyclopedic in its breadth of knowledge and great drama. Lacking in any notes or comment with some neat pictoral appendix.

from RebaRelishesReading

[Moby Dick] is not a book I ever wanted to read but my face-to-face book club is reading [Ahab's Wife] so I decided I should read its inspiration first. I now know more than I ever wanted to know about mid-19th century whaling but, I must admit, I found it oddly interesting. I was pleased that th...

from Moshepit20

“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.” Okay, s...