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Robotswithpersonality
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Fresh and foreboding! Cold and dark as the depths of the ocean. Follows in theme the path of destruction that conflict and vengeance, violence, wreak, in the original story of Moby Dick. This is a tale told from the perspective of a whale, but it's not simply a retelling of Moby Dick from THAT whale, but rather a reframing of the needless slaughter of a hunting tradition when both whale and man are hunting.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Here's to the benefits of uncertainty.

TheBookHippie Always question, live in the mystery. ✌🏼☮️ old hippie advice. 2mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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...do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized."

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breadnroses
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In the summer of 2022, I chanced upon a reference to CLR James‘ “Mariners” in Noel Ignatiev‘s posthumously released collection of essays. I was fascinated & so I resolved to read Moby Dick, which took me 4 months during that fall & winter. Almost exactly year after finishing Moby Dick, I‘ve finally read “Mariners” and I truly feel like I‘ve completed some sort of visionary quest. Full circle moment for sure!

batsy This actually sounds like a good book to read once I finally get around to Moby Dick. 3mo
breadnroses Moby Dick is my favorite novel, and I definitely recommend reading “Mariners” afterward! James‘s interpretation is very fresh, if not a bit stubborn, and the context in which he wrote it is fascinating. James penned this book while detained at Ellis Island, to protest his deportation & prove via his literary analysis of “the greatest American novel” that he was a worthy candidate for American citizenship 😯 @batsy 3mo
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jitteryjane724
Moby-Dick | Herman Melville
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I tried reading this when I was 8 years old. Now as an adult I'm hoping I understand it better. Just two paragraphs in and it already feels so much more relatable!

#adulting #mobydick #oceans #travel #escape #struggle

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freeatlast1137
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Pickpick

A ship of whales goes searching for Toby Wick.

Holy heck, I enjoyed this book.

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freeatlast1137
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“Death is coming. Death I cannot prevent. Large and multiple. But there is one life, perhaps, that I can save. And sure that is how the war ends. Not in cataclysm. But in the small saving of a life. I May not know my own mind, but I know that I will not become a devil.”
This book about whales going after Toby Wick has no right to be this good. I highly recommend.

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JLaurenceCohen
Moby-Dick | Herman Melville
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UGA's special collections library has a 1st edition of Moby-Dick from 1851.

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Yuki_Onna
Moby-Dick | Herman Melville
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 💙 7mo
Eggs Brilliant 👌🏼 7mo
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Christinak
Moby Dog | Alexander Steele
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My newest idea is to read the classics with Wishbone.

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