A review by joeyoudan
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

5.0

Moby Dick doesn’t get 5 stars because I loved every single one of its 500-odd pages. The book is totalistic- nothing escapes Melvilles attention, and so a lot of the book is filled with intricate contextual information unflinchingly feted out to you. Rather than undermining the narrative, however, all of the prose webs together to form a brilliant action adventure novel that has a lot to say about madness, obsession and violence.