Susan in NC’s Reviews > Why Read Moby-Dick? > Status Update
Susan in NC
is on page 78 of 131
“The job of government…is to keep the shark at bay. All of us are, to a certain degree, capable of wrongdoing. Without some form of government, evil will prevail. Here lies the source of the Founding Fathers’…unforgivable omission. They refused to contain the great, ravening shark of slavery, and more than two generations later their grandchildren and great-grandchildren were about to suffer the consequences.”
— Jul 14, 2026 01:00PM
6 likes · Like flag
Susan in NC’s Previous Updates
Susan in NC
is on page 27 of 131
“Time passes, fashions come and go, and the past becomes its own, hermetically sealed world. It’s easy to laugh at those people under figurative glass, or, even worse, to revere them as exempt from the complexities of our own age. Baloney. Life is life, and the world Melville describes in Moby Dick is as cutting-edge, confused, and out there as anything we can dream up in our own time.”
— Jul 13, 2026 05:25PM
Susan in NC
is on page 27 of 131
I love Nathaniel Philbrick’s nonfiction, so while searching through his titles on GR I came across this. I’ve never read Moby Dick, but this author has never disappointed, so I’ll give it a shot. One of my excellent city librarians is a fan of Philbrick and MD and put me on to mobydickbigread.com as a wonderful resource to read the classic.
— Jul 13, 2026 03:38PM