Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

57 reviews

lizzieowl's review against another edition

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Too much and detailed animal cruelty 
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isabella_reads's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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krista_lm's review against another edition

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2.5

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franzi_m's review against another edition

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The whale hunting was described in all its brutality, which I found quite disturbing. 
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theologize's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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ccpetrikas's review against another edition

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adventurous informative tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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jbeacham's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The point is ‘Be Yourself’

A mess of a book. At times entertaining, and at times frustrating. There is probably an edit that could be 5 stars, but then it wouldn’t be Moby Dick. It’s a challenging read, and at times I drifted. Especially the infamous whaling chapters. A lot to digest though and I may revisit it again in the future and attempt to fully grasp it.
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lynxpardinus's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging reflective

2.0

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kibbles15's review against another edition

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I did not like this book.  Overall the story is a good story with a moral of not allowing vengeance to influence your decisions.  There are only one or two likable characters.  To be honest the only character with a reasonable amount of development is the cannibal Queequeg and he is not even a main character.  You do begin to see bits and pieces of what drives Captain Ahab near the end, but not nearly enough to understand why he is so determined to kill Moby Dick.  The so called main character/narrator, Ishmael, has very little personality at all.  I guess I just had a hard time relating to the motivations of any of the characters. 
Content and story-wise, the book starts out okay and you get prepped for an exciting journey on a whaling ship...but that is pretty much where an excitement stops until the last 100 pages of the book.  Everything in between was dull shop talk and unnecessary history.  (I mean, there were three chapters about art involving whales. Why?)  It was interesting, but did not contribute to the story that much.  I truly feel you could take the 1st 100-200 pages and the last 100 pages and skip everything else in between and get the same thing out the story.   That being said, if you are into the history and symbolism of whales, and the process of Whaling, this book has a lot of it and you might enjoy this more than I did.
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ghostcheerio's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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