Book Review: Moby Dick

Way before Jaws and any of the giant sea creatures in Pirates of the Caribbean, there was an even better story, a tale so mammoth that, even today, it towers over almost all the fiction that came after it. Believe me, lousy literature doesn't last. And that's why Herman Melville's Moby Dick is still considered by many experts to be the best book ever written by an American author. Though published in 1851, this isn't a stuffy parlor novel. Nope. This is the real deal. It's a rousing sea adventure by which all since must be measured, and it gave birth to some of the most finely drawn chracters ever conceived, including Ishmael, Elijah, Queequeg and, of course, Captain Ahab (..."from hell's heart I stab at thee!"). Ahab's obsessive persuit of the great white whale is legendary. You'll also enjoy Melville's pauses to offer a few history lessons. This important novel hasn't aged a day; it's still a wonderful page turner. And its heft makes a great door stop.

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