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Title: "From hell's heart, I stab at thee!"
Review: "From hell's heart, I stab at thee!" Maybe the best line in any book ever...This book is pretty fantastic in many ways. The characters are good, and the story is an interesting one. And I can hardly imagine more descriptive narrative regarding the whaling days of Nantucket. In fact, that is also the worst part - Melville can be a bit boring when goes to lengths about this set of sails or masts or whatever. But if you stick with it, you can pretty much picture a whaling vessel at work, which is quite an achievement. It's a piece of history preserved largely by this one man.So the story suffers a bit when he goes off on multiple chapters about the ship details, but it remains a good story. And Ahab is a fascinating character - he is surely crazy but in many ways also pretty inspiring. He is the quintessential man that won't give up...
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