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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

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Hello everyone I am back again with another review. This week I will be reviewing Moby Dick, which has long been a classic on many of the lists from K's Classics.  I decided to finally read it after a while of nothing besides curiosity for what it would be about. After all, there is a whale in it, and a crazy guy with a peg leg. What isn't to love about a story as seemingly wacky about it? What I didn't take into consideration was the fact that it was a classic and therefore it did not have the layout of normal books that I would normally read. That was a mistake. So we start out meeting our main character, who seems so useless to the story that I can't even remember his name. He sets out for a port town so that we can go whaling, because he loves the sea and likes to be on boats. Okay then. On his way he meets a cannibal with whom he shares a room with. Turns out the guy is really nice, but he doesn't speak English well. So they strike up an unlikely friends...

K's Classics According to TheGreatestBooks.org

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend ahead. So I started reading more classical books considering how badly I scored last time, and this time I am confident I can do better than one single book!  So here we go! 1. Ulysses  2. In Search of Lost Time 3. Don Quixote  4. Moby Dick <-- Yes! I just read this one in the last week or so, and though it had a really, really, really, slow start, it was still worth reading. If nothing else, you can at least you can say you read it!  5. The Great Gatsby <-- Okay, yes I finally read this one after reading Moby Dick. It was a bit odd, and it was nothing like what I was expecting. No, I didn't see the movie. I don't want to either. I generally try to avoid watching movies based off of books unless I a) have no intention to ever read them, or b) they are old enough that even if I read it, it won't matter because the movie just might be better than the writing s...