Moby Dick

By Herman Melville....so I finally read this book. I left for Ohio a week ago and needed something I wouldn't finish in an hour...my husband suggested that I try reading it. He said it wasn't like some of the other classics I had read...and that maybe I would find it interesting. After all...I had experienced two Moby Dick references in the past few weeks...one in an episode of XFiles...Scully's dog...and one other I can't recall. So I thought, what the heck...I will try reading it. Boy...it was NOT what I expected at all! I learned so much about the whaling industry...what do they do with the whale once it has been harpooned...a little history about whaling..types of whales...the ships the sailors...so much information. Oh, and references about whales from the Bible and many other works of literature from before Herman Melville wrote the book...as well as many different parallels between whaling and the world. I actually finished it...and could honestly say I enjoyed it...not for the story of the white whale and the captain who was obsessed...but for the history and information about whales.