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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>Moby Dick</title>
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<header style="text-align: center; margin: 0 0 80px;">
<h1 style="text-align: center;">A Softcover Book Report</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Moby-Dick (or, The Whale)</h2>
</header>
<div>
<p>
The <a href="http://www.softcover.io/">Softcover</a> publishing platform
was designed mainly for ebooks like the
<a href="http://railstutorial.org/book"><em>Ruby on Rails Tutorial</em>
book</a> and <a href="http://learnenough.com/html"><em>Learn Enough
HTML to Be Dangerous</em></a>, but it's also good for making more
traditional books, such as the novel <em>Moby-Dick</em> by Herman
Melville (sometimes written as <em>Moby Dick</em>). We present below a
short and affectionately irreverent book report on this classic of
American literature.
</p>
</div>
<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sperm_whale_pod.jpg">
<img src="images/sperm_whales.jpg"
style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;"> </a>
<div style=" width: 500px; margin: 20px auto; padding:30px; background-color: #fafafa; ">
<h3>Moby-Dick: A classic tale of the sea</h3>
<a href="https://www.softcover.io/read/6070fb03/moby-dick"
target="_blank">
<img src="images/moby_dick.png" alt="Moby Dick" height="200px"
style="float: left; margin: 0 40px 0 0;"> </a>
<p>
<a href="https://www.softcover.io/read/6070fb03/moby-dick"
target="_blank">
<em>Moby-Dick</em></a>
by Herman Melville begins with these immortal words:
</p>
<blockquote style="font-style: italic; font-size: 20px;">
<p>
<span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;
color: #ff0000;">Call me Ishmael.</span>
Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having little or
no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore,
I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the
world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the
circulation.
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
After driving off his spleen (which <em>can't</em> be good for you),
Ishmael then goes on in much the same vein for approximately one
jillion pages. The only thing bigger than Moby Dick (who—<em>spoiler
alert!</em>—is a giant white whale) is the book itself.
</p>
<h4>My top 3 favorite things about Moby Dick</h4>
<ol>
<li>Vengeful whale</li>
<li>Salty sailors</li>
<li>The names "Queequeg" and "Starbuck"</li>
</ol>
<h4>Other things about Moby Dick</h4>
<ul>
<li>
Chapter after chapter (after chapter) of meticulous detail about
whaling
</li>
<li>
The story pretty much
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)"
target="_blank">happened in real life</a>
</li>
<li>Mad sea captains are fun</li>
</ul>
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