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Summary: Where are all the pretty pictures?
Review: Moby-Dick is one of my favorite novels so, no, I'm not taking issue with that. But with all the hype about this special new edition, I expected to be blown away by the illustrations. Instead, I found that there aren't that many, they're quite small and, except for two or three, not that impressive. (The one on the cover is probably the best of the bunch.) Perhaps the orginal, limited edition priting of this book looked better, as opposed to this paperback version. Given my choice of illustrated editions of Moby-Dick, I would stick with Rockwell Kent's.
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Summary: Moby Dick, is it a good pick?
Review: Moby Dick is a very difficult book to read. I suggest you give the book a shot but if you find yourself losing track watch the movie with Patrick Stewart it stays close to the book. Melville has a very unique style of writing and for me and others I know it was difficult to understand the message being sent.
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Summary: Moby Dick
Review: Moby Dick is a very hard book to read for the average person. With long sentences and complex vocabulary it is hard to understand. The story is a little disturbing on what a man by the name of Ahab tries to do to seek its revenge.
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Summary: A tale of a white whale
Review: Moby Dick is a very deep thoughtful book about life and its choices. Ishmael is the average human and his voyage on the sea is the voyage of life that we all face in our daily existance. His friend Queqeg is the goodness in humans that we all fight to have. Ahab on the other hand is the inate evil that all humans naturally lean towards in life and we have to fight to keep ahead of everyday. Moby is the thing that drives the yearnig to get money or happiness. When Moby crashes into the ship and it starts to sink with all who aren't out hunting is the wakeup call to reality that we all need sometimes that says we are going in the wrong direction and need to choose whats important to us and what's not. When Queqeg gives Ishmael his coffin to float on and give his own life up to save a friend that's a beam of light that we see in life that tells us what direction we need to head in and that somethings are a lot more importan than others will ever be.
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Summary: Elegant Writing and Fascinating Characters
Review: MOBY DICK is a great American novel about whaling in the nineteenth century. It is a very long book which contains almost too much incidental information about whales but it is fully redeemed by its intriguing characters and realistic descriptions of whalers in action.The two main characters are Captain Ahab of the Pequod and Ishmael who is the narrator of the story. Ahab is obsessed by a desire to hunt down the giant whale Moby Dick which cost him his leg during an earlier voyage. Ishmael is an experienced young seaman who is new to whaling. The tale focuses on the Pequod's long hunt for the huge sperm whale. Melville is an elegant writer. I recommend MOBY DICK mostly for that reason. The book has so many strengths that the lengthy treatises on whales and whaling are really a small price to pay for such a worthwhile reading experience.
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Summary: Uggggghhhhhh
Review: A classic? Yes. Long? That's an understatement. There's an entire chapter on why the color 'white' is scary. If you never read this in school, and you don't know what you're getting into, I suggest talking to a few people who have read it first to see if this is your flavor. Melville is a beautiful writer, but his epic tangents were too much for me. Some people like the Mona Lisa, some people don't.
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Summary: Gary Netter, not Gary Kelley
Review: I recently purchased the Mody Dick adaptation by Patricia Daniels (ISBN 0817216790 (Hardcover), ISBN 0811468348 (Softcover.)) The illustrator is reported on Amazon.com to be Gary Kelley but it is actually Gary Netter. While these illustrations are quite good, you fans out there of Gary Kelley should think twice before purchasing this edition. Overall, the book is a nice adaption and quite easy to read. Very enjoyable.
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Summary: One of the Great American Novels Of All Time
Review: Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" easily wins my vote as among the greatest American novels of the 19th Century, joining such august company as Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", and Henry James' "The Europeans", among others. It's surely one of the greatest American novels of all time. Part adventure story and part memoir of the whaling industry, "Moby Dick" remains as vividly exciting and relentless in its pacing as I remembered reading it years ago in Frank McCourt's Stuyvesant High School creative writing course. Perhaps it's no wonder that the novel is quoted by Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the film "Star Trek: First Contact", as a commentary on his anger towards the Borg, which seems quite akin to Captain Ahab's towards the whale Moby Dick. It was well worth waiting over twenty five years to read this splendid novel again.
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Summary: [Moby is difficult but interesting]
Review: Moby dick is an interesting book and I just love the beginning. Although I thought it was difficult to read it turned out to be very interesting. Anyone in middle school grade level or higher should read this book and in high school you will probably have to read this anyway. ALthough I do not suggest this book for someone who does not enjoy reading because it is difficult to understand at sometimes.
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Summary: Difficult, but possibly worth it
Review: Moby Dick is a tough book. I will not for a minute pretend that I understood much of what lay below the surface of this story,
because I was reading it for pleasure and did not bother to give it the time necessary to truly appreciate Melville's genius. On
the other hand, even giving it only half my attention, the book was still entertaining. Ahab's obsession, the action on the high sea, and the battle with whales were all intriguing and griping. I also learned a tremendous amount about the whaling industry and lifeon the sea in the 19th century. There is tremendous depth to this book, but even if you only scratch the surface it is worth the time and effort to do so once. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who does not like 18th century literature (it can be
extremely wordy and dull at times), but for anyone who has an interest in maritime novels, Melville, or is just curious why thereis so much talk about Moby Dick, I would advise you to give it a chance.
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