E Harrison Byrne’s Reviews > Moby-Dick or, The Whale > Status Update

congratulations on finishing this opus- i'm afraid it's likely to linger on my to-do list forever...

Fredd wrote: "congratulations on finishing this opus- i'm afraid it's likely to linger on my to-do list forever..."

I highly recommend it. While it was sometimes a bit long-winded in matters of cetology and whale lore, those parts still served a mood-setting purpose; the parts where genius shone through were well worth the sometimes digressing, droning punishments of trivial whale minutiae. It had numerous instances of perfection in prose, and I loved Melville's poetic--even prophetic--meditations on human imperfection and unhappiness.