probably never read the full text my dad says it's boring but this seems like a good summary, This was perhaps not as visually pleasing as Chaboutés version, but it gave a better picture of the crew, Very interesting adaptation! I've never felt a need to read Moby Dick in its entirety, even though i knew i was missing out on A Classic Of American Fiction.
When I saw a graphic novel version in my local library, I decided it would be a way to enrich my cultural literacy without slogging through Melville himself.
I'm glad I read it, and I do feel more educated as a result, And in a way, it seems like the reteller adapter, Sophie Furse, may have given us a bit of that inexorable detail the original MobyDick is known for.
Did I really need to know the name of every ship they encountered, along with every captain
I did not like the the style of the faces in Penko Gelev's illustrations too many big bulbous noses and accentuated cheekbones.
But otherwise,
I did like the illustrations, especially ones including the sea, sea creatures, and storms, The madness shows on Ahab's face, especially pagewith the lightning struck harpoon,
After the retelling, there are a series of background pieces on Melville, whaling, and MobyDick as literature, These should be quite helpful for the youth target audience, and are appreciated by literary philistines like me :,
I read the Barron's Graphic Classics version of Moby Dick, and that is the cover I see here in goodreads, but many of the reviews seem to be for the original novel.
Maybe it's just the iPod version messed up somehow, but I just want to be clear what my review us for! It seemed like they took Cliff's Notes and illustrated the story.
The most interesting parts of it were the historical notes at the end, The art was good, but not spectacular, I could see it being used for a much, much lower reading level in a classroom where all students were required to read the novel, but even then I think the lessons would require massive modification because this version seemed so simplistic.
/for my use,/here, Muy entretenido y educativo! gtDon't skip all the extras in the backgt
Not excellent but in no way bad it does the job of relaying the novel in appropriate fashion.
Great book. Better each time I read it, First read in high school, I didn't get it, I didn't like it, Read it next in graduate school for a class which also introduced me to John McPhee, Still didn't get it, but enjoyed it more, Read it a third time for fun well, not for fun but because I thought I should read it to "get it" a few years later, Apparently, it didn't stick with me,
Got it for free from the Gutenberg Project and read it ath time, It was if I'd never read it before, The descriptions of New England, whaling and shipping out were outstanding, The symbolism and metaphors were classic, I was talking with my wife about her conversation with ouryear old about symbolism and metaphors in writing, We agreed that pulp fiction and other genres need no literary inspection, but certainly a literary class like this one does, I read the novel a long time ago, reading this graphic novel adaptation was kind of cool because its a quick little reminder of the story, The theme is so similar to Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", Even graphic novel form, one can see the significance of the story and how it has remained topical all these years, It's pretty inspired to adapt classic novels like these into this format because it's a good, quick refresher for readers like myself who are already familiar with the story and/or a great way to introduce younger readers.
Great!!! Call me Ishmael! Ha ha, Just kidding.
I'd say the whale is cursed, because he never gets killed,
So, there's nothing else to say here, right
The end! Ha ha! A quick and easy read to understand the major plot points to a whale of a tale Moby Dick will go down as one of the best books I've ever read.
None can beat the classics like Herman Melville, It's a good recap of the book, and comfortable to follow, Smooth transition between chapters, and I will always be pleased with the final showdown with the whale, All and all, great book, MobyDick, the white whale: emblem of nature yet unnaturally pale, tender and violent, god and demon, an enigma to which Ahab is bound by ropes of vengeful obsession.
The Pequod: whaler out of Nantucker, with its polyglot world crew bound upon a voyage for spermwhale, a ship of the damned driven by its ungodly captain to the edge of the void.
Ismael: named for a Biblical outcast, narrator, masthead philosopher, sole survivor, .