Moby Dick

I think that Moby Dick is one of my all time favorite books.

I would like to go back now and read it again.

So often I have heard people describe it as a protracted grind of a reading assignment. But I really love the way Melville writes, and I loved his insight into the hearts of men. I don't agree with all his opinions, of course. But he does express himself elegantly.

I loved and hated at the same time watching all those men as they were compelled to undertake a task which they knew would kill them, and they went at it with such robust enthusiasm, for the most part. Even Starbuck.

I cannot face another book now. I will just have to take a day off.