Moby Dick

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I am going to try reviewing my books again. I was assigned to read this book for a college English class two years ago, by one of the best Professors that I have had. I didn't get the chance to read the entire book while I was taking the class, but I knew it would become a favourite.

Melville is one of those reminders that I have in life that I will "never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture." His vocabulary and use of allusion show a scholastic endeaver that exceeds anything that I find in the last century. I disagree with those who say that our language is simply "changing over time," and would boldy declare that our language is slipping towards the pits of tartarus, with Moby Dick as my blazing standard.

My favourite quote:
"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

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