Friday, July 22, 2022

Moby Dick

For several weeks now, I have been reading Moby Dick.  It has been a challenge to keep going through the entire novel.  The book in many ways is just like a long sea voyage.  There are a few short pages of adventure separated by long and slow, often tedious pages of everything you could possibly learn about whales and whaling.  Tonight I got to the final three chapters, and I couldn't stop reading.  I was really surprised at how quickly the story reached its climax and how little resolution or falling action there was.  It ends abruptly and grimly, but I really enjoyed it.

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