Moby Dick; or, the Whale

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• Josh80/100

  Moby Dick is so much better than its reputation led me to believe it would be. I expected four-hundred pages of meandering prose about the misery of the human condition. What I got was six-hundred pages (I was even wrong about the length!) of jaunty, conversational, and good humored meditation on everything from depression, to savages, to whales. Yes, whales! Strange: the criticism I have read…

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