Moby Dick

The Whale

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Alan Munro

Moby-Dick is widely considered to be the Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story details the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whale ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale: Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. And Ahab intends to take revenge.

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This narrator MAKES - ...senseless and ANNOYing - ... emphases - ...as he READS.

Like a bad grocery cart wheel going whomp-whomp-whomp...
I took a chance on it. Should have listened to a sample first!
Alas... Lesson learned & money lost in the sea.

wondering story

the performance about put me to sleep. the reader was almost monotone, and the story went off on tangents, you had to pay 100% attention to follow along.

Yes, bad narration

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Ha! Well, I'd tighten up the writing some, maybe add a boy wizard... That captain is really a downer.

How could the performance have been better?

The narrator has a lovely resonant voice, but he seems to be coming upon the words for the first time as he reads them. He mispronounces some fairly common words as if he doesn't quite know where the story is going from one phrase to the next.

Snorefest!!!!!

I loved this story growing up but this was the worst reading I've ever heard! It was so monotonous and monotoned that I couldn't listen for more than 10 min at a time without falling a sleep or just tuning it out completely!

Narrator was fine. Book goes off in tangents

Most of the book is spent relating detail of the whaling industry that are not necessarily for the story. I was bored with all but about 5 or 6 chapters.