Book #193 of 2017: Moby Dick by Herman Melville There’s a decent story submerged in this book, but it’s utterly swamped by the narrator’s endless didactic asides on whales and whaling. For every page about Ahab’s obsessive quest or Ishmael and Queequeg’s sweet friendship or even the fate of minor characters like poor Pip, readers …
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