Rubes by Leigh Rubin for September 03, 2023

A whale of a tale.

There’s more than one ending. From Wikipedia:

Reviewers in Britain were largely favorable, though some objected that the tale seemed to be told by a narrator who perished with the ship, as the British edition lacked the epilogue recounting Ishmael’s survival.

But with either ending, the whale wins.

Melville’s book was based on an actual story. A very interesting read!!!

Ahab wasn’t too thrilled with the ending.

I never read the book as a youth. But after references to it in Star Trek II and Star Trek: First Contact, I decided to read it.

Now let’s hear the story about that little wooden boy….

I never read this book as a youth. I decided to read it after references were made in Star Trek II and Star Trek: First Contact.

Cetacean citation

I never read that, but I always figured the whale was killed at the end. If that’s true, why would a whale consider it a happy ending if it could read?

Better than that scary story he told involving a bowl of petunias.

Every time he reads Moby Dick, it brings Ishmael to his face.

Biography of John Holmes