Excited to read this once I‘m done with Emma. A high school student who reads classics for fun, even after reading them for school?? Yes ma‘am.
Excited to read this once I‘m done with Emma. A high school student who reads classics for fun, even after reading them for school?? Yes ma‘am.
#NewYearNewBooks #InvolvesJourney Can‘t remember if I finally read this last year or the year before.Though it can get a little deep on whale science, I was surprised how funny it was in parts.I read an old Bantam edition, may dig into this Norton Critical Edition someday to see what I missed on the first reading.
#NewYearNewBooks #ShipsorSailing a whaling tale that has been on the TBR since it was published in 2016!😱😄
so-soI‘m going to be one of those people that appreciates the idea of the story and the theme of the maniacal, self-destructive quest, but wish to never read this again. I understand that Melville felt the need to expand the work by 70% with essays on whaling and whale anatomy and sailing and philosophy and that has its place, but I didn‘t care for it. After 300 pages, I just wanted this long slog to be over. But I was on team Dick, for sure.
UGA's special collections library has a 1st edition of Moby-Dick from 1851.
pan15-25 Aug 23 (audiobook)
I do wonder how I managed to read so many of these long, somewhat tedious classics in my teen years. Maybe Moby Dick needs to be read in text format rather than listened to? I am not sure why I persisted to the end really. Old habits. Not so much a story as a treatise on whaling and a list of every time a whale is ever mentioned anywhere.
I do at least appreciate the anti-whaling and environmental sentiment.
