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Books by Herman Melville mentioned on podcasts
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick comes up in discussions across several podcasts, including Stuff You Should Know, Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, The Joe Rogan Experience, Monday Morning Podcast, Modern Wisdom, and People I (Mostly) Admire. On Stuff You Should Know, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant discuss a friend who is an aficionado of the work and considers it the best book of all time, while humorously confusing the title with The Scarlet Letter. The hosts of Las Culturistas praise it as a thriller and a page-turner. On The Joe Rogan Experience, a speaker analyzes Ahab as a tragic protagonist who fails to learn from his mistakes, and Mike Rowe notes that the sinking of a Nantucket whaling ship in 1821 inspired Melville to write the book. Bill Burr mentions reading it on the Monday Morning Podcast, Ben Shapiro recalls reading it during a book club on Modern Wisdom, and Ken Ono shares on People I (Mostly) Admire how his mentor used the opening of the novel as an analogy for discovery in mathematics.
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Moby Dick
Moby Dick by Herman Melville is a classic novel that follows Captain Ahab's obsessive, tragic quest for revenge against the giant white whale.
Discussed“He is a Moby Dick afficionado and collects copies and versions of that and he said that is the best book of all time.”
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Discussed“He is a Moby Dick afficionado and collects copies and versions of that and he said that is the best book of all time. He said it's not my favorite book. He said, 'It's the best book.' You mean The Scarlet Letter, the one with the Great White Whale?”
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Illustrated)
Discussed“In 1851, he published a novel called The Whale, later retitled Moby Dick or The Whale. At some point, you may have read Moby Dick or pretended to.”
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