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Moby Dick
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First published October 1, 1987
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June 11, 2024
This was an absolutely fantastic audio drama to listen to! I have been avoiding Moby Dick... pretty much my entire life, but especially since high school AP English when I was traumatized by the sheer boredom of Billy Budd, Sailor. Plus, while I love men, I don't like stories about just men and the manly sort of things they get up to. I don't like stories about the sea. I don't like adventures. I don't like animal stories. There has just never been anything about Moby Dick that has ever appealed to me.
BUT... my daughter told me about Libby, the app that partners with your library to bring you great books to read or listen to digitally. I put it on my phone a couple weeks ago and decided to choose a short and probably horrible story to listen to while I drive, since I'm trapped in the car anyway. Moby Dick was just a couple hours long and on my list of horrific things I've not yet read so I decided to give it a try. It wasn't long before I realized I was probably listening to an abridged version, and my suspicions were confirmed when I bought the book at B&N and found it to be 700ish pages!
BUT... this audio drama! Wow. It is probably THE most amazing thing I've ever listened to. It was just fascinating and so very well done. It 100% made me want to read the book. There are so many Biblical references I want to ponder and I know there's got to be a whole lot more to the characters of Queequeg, Ahab, Ishmael, and more. Side note regarding Ishmael: commentaries I've read point to the reference of the Biblical Ishmael as an outcast, etc., and I know that this story is full of Biblical references... But, I also think the use of the name could point to Daniel DeFoe's use of it in Robinson Crusoe, as in that story a man is tossed overboard to fend for himself --- that man's name is Ishmael.
Fantastic audiodrama. I will likely listen to this again; and, yes, I will be reading the full version of Moby Dick. Stranger things have happened... but not many.
BUT... my daughter told me about Libby, the app that partners with your library to bring you great books to read or listen to digitally. I put it on my phone a couple weeks ago and decided to choose a short and probably horrible story to listen to while I drive, since I'm trapped in the car anyway. Moby Dick was just a couple hours long and on my list of horrific things I've not yet read so I decided to give it a try. It wasn't long before I realized I was probably listening to an abridged version, and my suspicions were confirmed when I bought the book at B&N and found it to be 700ish pages!
BUT... this audio drama! Wow. It is probably THE most amazing thing I've ever listened to. It was just fascinating and so very well done. It 100% made me want to read the book. There are so many Biblical references I want to ponder and I know there's got to be a whole lot more to the characters of Queequeg, Ahab, Ishmael, and more. Side note regarding Ishmael: commentaries I've read point to the reference of the Biblical Ishmael as an outcast, etc., and I know that this story is full of Biblical references... But, I also think the use of the name could point to Daniel DeFoe's use of it in Robinson Crusoe, as in that story a man is tossed overboard to fend for himself --- that man's name is Ishmael.
Fantastic audiodrama. I will likely listen to this again; and, yes, I will be reading the full version of Moby Dick. Stranger things have happened... but not many.
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