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Moby Dick

Written by: Herman Melville
Narrated by: William Hootkins
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"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel. Melville said himself that he wanted to write "a mighty book about a mighty theme" and so he did. It is a story of one man's obsessive revenge-journey against the white whale, Moby-Dick, who injured him in an earlier meeting. Woven into the story of the last journey of The Pequod is a mesh of philosophy, rumination, religion, history, and a mass of information about whaling through the ages.

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Public Domain (P)2005 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd. Classics Genre Fiction Language Learning Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense World Literature Witty
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The narrator was brilliant. Able to cast a unique voice and timbre to each character.

It’s a classic for a reason.

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Great story and performance. Always wanted to go through this book and was finally able too with audible.

Masterpiece

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It was a very dramatic reading. Loved it! Hootkins is fabulous. I have heard other readings of Moby Dick and nothing comes close to Hootkins

Best reading out there!

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Wonderfully read. Truly.

At time the narrative can be somewhat tedious in its chapters on describing cetaceans, but it’s understandable that at the time this was written, there was no way to ‘google’ whales.

Oh Captain, my Captain.

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This would be a hard book to read but the narrator was brilliant. So many different voices all done with exceptional flow, never missing a beat.
If this is a story you want to explore, download the audio version and enjoy.

The narration made the book for me

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