Author: Herman Melville
How obtained: Listened to via Hoopla
Why This Book? It all began in 1993 ...
Quote from the book:
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery, about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath; like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John. And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide rolling water prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulism, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rollings waves but made so by their restlessness.
From Chapter 111 - The Pacific
Here's what someone else thought about this book: Click here for original reviews of the book from 1851 (several years before I began reading it.).
What did I think? Who cares??!!?? After almost 30 years, I finally finished it!! I loved it! It is odd, eccentric, dark, genial, down-to-earth, tantalizing and mesmerizing; sometimes, all at once. Next summer, I may even attempt to read it again. I finished this book on June 24th, the 27th day of my summer reading program. This puts me on schedule to read 22.22 books during the challenge.
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