Moby-D1ck being read by famous personalities

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Explore – Tilda Swinton reads the first chapter...

Tilda Swinton reads the first chapter of Moby-dikk, part of Moby dikk Big Read – an ambitious new project aiming to bring the Melville classic to the masses through daily readings by famous personalities, including David Cameron and Stephen Fry, paired with artwork inspired by the novel.

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this is great brehs I'm going to go through it again by reading the text first and then follow up with the audio passages on each chapter as they're done... already done with the first couple chapters

 

[The Real]

Great link. Moby dikk is one of the greatest American works of literature ever produced, and imo also up there with the greatest English language books ever. Politics, history, especially of slavery and colonialism (and a progressive and complex standpoint on racism/identity,) real philosophy on all kinds of topics, skillful language, great characters, epic plot... The book has it all. It was even ahead of its time in theorizing evolution. Melville was on another level when it came to knowledge on a wide breadth of topics.

I always figured it was some boring, old, overrated white person canon book until I actually learned about it as a touchstone for Black writers and those interested in race and philosophy that remains relevant today. Then I actually read it and discovered it was even more rich than I had imagined and now it's easily one of my favorites.

 

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I always figured it was some boring, old, overrated white person canon book until I actually learned about it as a touchstone for Black writers and those interested in race and philosophy that remains relevant today. Then I actually read it and discovered it was even more rich than I had imagined and now it's easily one of my favorites.

yeah already in the very beginning the narrator explores his prejudice about pagans/cannibals and sees that the 'cannibal' has good manners and better hygiene etc

interestingly I also saw something about montainge about cannibals a couple days ago:

http://www.the-coli.com/higher-lear...nibalism-vs-european-inquisition-warfare.html

it's heartening to see that despite modern 'clash of civilizations' stupidity european/american writers hundreds of years ago were aware of the dangers of ethnocentrism