Finished a book from my classics list today

The book is the classic tale of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. This book has been around for quite some time as it was written in 1851 so truly one of the oldest books I have ever read (i think the bible is the oldest, if that counts). The book is a tale of adventure on the open sea. It is the epic story of Man vs Beast as Captain Ahab takes on the White Whale, Moby Dick.

However this isn’t exactly how I thought it was going to be. The book was definately a bit more old fashioned and written in that old style that is a little bit hard to follow at times (but I coped) and it jumped around a lot going here and there so it was a little tough to follow sometimes. The writing was definately not always easy to follow and at times i was actually a little bored as it explained a lot of things about whales, not really a fictional tale and felt more like a non fiction story of someones report on whaling in the 1850s.

Either way the book was definately something to tick off my Classics list and it was not all that bad! I can’t really complain at all.