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book has stuck with me for years now, images and ideas from it burned into my head, Excellent work, highly recommended. EVERYONE should read this to connect with the impact of modern living on creatures of the sea, A postapocalyptic tale with a different focus, in which the main characters are whales rather than humans, The author definitely did his research, Several species are represented here, including some dolphins who get roped into the human tomfoolery, As for the writing, it's slowmoving, heavy, and melancholic, . a bit like humpback whale music actually, This book
This is one of the few books that has made me emotional, I had to take breaks after reading a single page sometimes,
I'm so happy I stumbled upon it at a used bookstore,
It is quite technical and specific sometimes, but I loved it more for these details, This is one of the most memorable novels I have ever read, I even used it in a college nature literature class I teach, due in large part to the brilliant prose, welldeveloped plot, and most of all the fantastic character development.
That the protagonist is a whale does not take away from our ability to empathize with the main character, As others have pointed out, the background for the story is wellresearched, and plays an important role in the "agenda" behind which the story was written.
Again, no matter this is an amazingly wellwritten and memorable novel in its own right, Boring and repetitive. Gives an interesting view on whales, but nothing really happens except whale sex and birth and death, Told from the viewpoint of several whales and a few dolphins, this novel provides a very unique perspective, It is wellwritten, descriptive, imaginative, emotional, engaging, heartwrenching, It is also not an "enjoyable" read due to the repeated tragedies befalling the animals, Through brutal hunting/fishing, environmental destruction, and environmental and biological effects of nuclear war, humans decimate the whale population,

TW: graphic descriptions of animal death, both humancaused and natural Blue, barely a woman, is lonely and desperate to hook up with someone anyone.
Finding a good man these days is next to impossible! As she is about to give up

hope, she runs into a giant known only as the Bull.
A recent widower, Bull has a broken heart and needs of his own, The pair are joined by Fin, and elderly woman who lost her entire family long ago, After forty years of suppressing her feelings, she begins to find love again, both emotional and sensual, when she is with her two young wards.
But when Blue, a diehard Southern girl, finds out that Bull is simply not from her part of the world, will the three be driven apart by her need to return home and to the life she knew, or will she take the plunge with her new family and continue in their seemingly endless display of steaming whale intercourse

The only thing that I really knew about this novel was that it was about the last of the whales duh, and I never expected that it would read like an erotica/romance.
I only managed to get to pagebefore I had to return it ILL, though maybe I will pick it up again in the future and finish it.
It seemed like a book that I would really enjoy, but I never really got into it and not just because of the massive amounts of graphic whale sex.
My love for the ocean and the life within is strong, This will forever be a book I treasure, The kind of book that sticks with you, I took it out of a mobile library decades ago, but I've never forgotten the impression it gave of needless waste of life and the unseen tragedies caused by human global domination.
"Although it is impossible for a human being to view things through the eyes and mind of a whale, Lloyd has probably come as close as one can get.
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Another 'changed my life forever' novel, Many tears shed for these blue whales, I read this about ten or more years ago, couldn't put it down, . . there is no human dialogue, just the fictional story of some whales written from inside their own heads as best a human could possibly imagine I'd like to add that it is not childlike in regards to being told through the whales perspective and many ppl who have reviewed it elsewhere couldn't resist the urge to include spoilers in their reviews, don't worry it's not like science fiction and you have to read between the lines to realize what's happening with humanity back on land.
Also, some of the perspectives attributed to the cetaceans in the story there are dolphins, porpoises and orcas as well as baleen whaleshave paralels in actual research, for example, the extent to which cetaceans use their sonar, to use it as a sort of sonogram to detect changes in the bodies of other living things around them is not an idea Abbey just pulled out of his hat.
If you like animals at all, give this book a chance, This book has been around awhile, but it seems to scream for anyone who is involved with Greenpeace to read it, I'm not smashing on the book, it's great, but it's a call for people to wake up that we are going to lose the whales if we don't stop what we are doing.
As I recall from something else I read the blue whales were making a comeback, slowly, but they are being seen more, one was seen off the coast of California, which was rare.
This wonderful novel can really make you cringe though, you care about the animals and so it's hard to take when a dolphin is flensed alive and a few other whales are killed by exploding harpoons.
Really, this is an impressive novel of seeing a world being destroyed through a whale's eye, Strange protagonists in this book, They are all whales, but not like talking whales, regular whales, The book follows their migration almost like a discovery channel special, anthropomorphizing them, .