#Non-fiction: Moby Dick as Philosophy
- Author: Mark Anderson
- Title: Moby-Dick as Philosophy
- Published: 2015 (386 pg)
- Genre: non-fiction
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Conclusion:
- The author’s goal:
- link Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
- with the philosophical insights of
- Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Nietzsche.
- I was searching for enlightenment about
- philosophy vs Melville’s Mody Dick but
- felt more confused at the end of the book
- …than at the beginning.
- Writing style helps to establish an author’s unique perspective.
- It helps our understanding of how they tell their stories.
- I got no help from Mark Anderson.
- While dealing with the grandeur of philosophy
- …insignificant wording just isn’t going to cut it.
- Anderson’s elaborate word choice
- …combined with complicated sentence structure
- made this complex book….even more of a challenge.
- It is no wonder after 50% I started to skim
- …for only information about Melville and left
- the author to go down other rabbit holes.
- I did not follow him!
Last thoughts:
- Mark Anderson’s flame that drives his passion for
- metaphysical speculation
- …felt like the fires of purgatory for me….a punishment.
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NancyElin 
Ha, ha, it doesn’t surprise me that you didn’t like this one. It sounds like you need a cleansing after this one. Can’t wait to see what your next read will be!
The book really disappointed me. I found a dissertation about Moby Dick by a young South Korean….and I learned so much more. The author was just over explaining and liked the sound of his voice…boviating.