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Badges? We don't need no stinking badges from Canada writes: Moby Dick would be in my 'top ten'. A fabulous book that I've read more than once.
- Posted 20/07/08 at 7:24 AM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Stephen Dedalus from Canada writes: Yep. A dense book, and a bit technical at times (if you're only chasing narrative), but well worth the read. Melville had a wonderful, almost biblical, prose style, and his almost obsessive interest in whaling matched Ahab's fanatical pursuit of the whale. (I love being able to say stuff like this here without getting beat up.)
Too bad Melville never got his deserts while living, but neither did I.- Posted 20/07/08 at 3:12 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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robert harris from Canada writes: The one part of Moby Dick that stays with me is the memorial service for sailors lost at sea in that there is almost never a body to say goodbye to. It is a very moving chapter that is as relevant today as the day it was written. To landlubbers like myself I just hadn`t given it much thought until I read about it in Melville.
- Posted 29/07/08 at 9:47 AM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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jim slim from cowichan valley,bc, Canada writes: I hated the paragraphs that ran for 8 pages long in Moby Dick,,Geesh
- Posted 12/08/08 at 3:17 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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