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""Moby Dick" by Herman Melville is one of those novels that perfectly captures a time that is now lost in history. I revisit the story every five years or so. Melville bases the novel on his own time aboard a whaling ship, sailing the world seeki..." Permalink

"The edition of "Moby-Dick" you really want to find is the old Penguin one, with 100s of pages of detailed notes by Prof. Harold Beaver. Why that definitive edition was allowed to go out of print I really have no idea. Beaver also provided annota..." Permalink

"A great quality of the novel Frankenstein is that its composition, full of starts and stops and disparate parts, makes something of a Frankenstein’s monster in and of itself. Likewise this book, with its vast depth and peculiar mobility is – to bo..." Permalink

"This novel is impressive in terms of the association of biblical references and informative information on whales. The story itself gets lost and dramatic end is somewhat lackluster. “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever..." Permalink

"I question if people actually read this from cover to cover. 64-ish pages in and I had to put it down. Mind numbingly boring, with long-winded tangents that go nowhere, serve nothing to advance the plot, and just feel like filler. Seriously, what ..." Permalink