Pros: Well-researched, not for sissies. Fans of Melville will be pleased. Cons: Drags in a few spots, a little far fetched in spots.
Rife with coincidences, this was a startling novel to read. It is cyclical, with the start of the novel happening partway through the heroine's life, then a shift backwards, to see how did she get to this point, and a series of crises.
Pros: Marvelous use of language, memorable characters Cons: Narrative loses steam in final quarter of the book
"Ahab's Wife" combines fictional characters and historical figures and mingles them together with the denizens of Herman Melville's classic, "Moby Dick." It's an interesting conceit (although not original), and for the vast majority of this...
Sena Jeter Naslund's novel Ahab's Wife starts out slow. Well into it, 75 to 100 pages, I was dissapointed. The novel could have been about anyone's wife, and I wanted to see a woman wandering her widow's walk and gazing out into the sea. The novel opens...
Pros: Beautiful cover art. Cons: Cover art bites the a$$ of those who use it to judge books.
"Thar she blows! A hump like a snowhill! It is Moby Dick!" There was a commercial, when I was a lad (and, turns out, there are STILL commercials... Oh, how nothing seems to change...) that hawked these "beautifully bound leather renditions" of classic...
Pros: Great story, adventurous and thought provoking Cons: very long, a little slow toward the end
I read this book because it was chosen as the book of the month for a book club I am in. It took me a good month to finish it, and I am not a very slow reader. The book is long, but if you can manage that, it is superbly entertaining.
Pros: A great story with good plot twists. Cons: It had a few chapters that were a little slow.
I was surprised by the nature of the book. It was a candid look at what life could have been like for the real Mrs. Capt. Ahab. I was skeptical for the first few chapters but after that, it went fast because of the quality of the story. My husband liked it, too but he was wishing for more of the Moby Dick stories..
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