Article: Reading `Moby-Dick' a long but worthwhile voyage

Umapagan Ampikaipakan
New Straits Times
08-25-2009
Reading `Moby-Dick' a long but worthwhile voyage
Byline: Umapagan Ampikaipakan
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section

HERMAN Melville's magnum opus, much like its namesake - that tireless, relentless, white whale - is considered by many to be unconquerable. To readers the world over, Moby-Dick is often their Moby-Dick. That one unattainable goal; constantly teasing, tormenting, mocking. What would be their crowning glory in an otherwise successful life of reading.

It is something picked up and put down again. And far too quickly. A novel that is read five to six pages at a time. A book that forces us instead, to read The Waverly ...

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