Moby Dick
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A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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2 primary booksMoby Dick is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1851 with contributions by Herman Melville, Laure Dupont, and Berenice Xavier.
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I loved all the homoerotic subtext, but the book really drags in the latter half.
I made a conscious effort to read more classic literature this year and this was top of my list. Unfortunately I was disappointed. What I was expecting was a swashbuckling high-seas adventure. What I got was an over-long, plodding narrative stuffed with excessive pseudo-scientific descriptions of the whaling industry. One hundred pages in and our narrator still hadn't set foot on a boat which only caught up with the fabled white whale in the last three chapters of the book (from page 514).
