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White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-War (Oxford World's Classics) Series: \
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... of The Crying of Lot 49: "Og think nasty writer-man laughing at Og."
One month for Moby-Dick? Really? What about White Jacket in its place, or Typee? They're books that a month of discussion should just about do for.
Dickens = Satan. Just sayin'.
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Overall it was a great read. Not so much about the day to day living like Dana's Two years Before the Mast, Meleville's White Jacket , Bluejacket: An Autobiography by Fred J. Buenzle , but like a fine painting it shows the whole colorfull pallat of a mans life, good and bad.
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Overall it was a great read. Not so much about the day to day living like Dana's Two years Before the Mast, Meleville's White Jacket , or Buenzle's Bluejacket: An Autobiography, but like a fine painting the whole colorfull pallat painted in large strokes tells of a mans life.
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Overall it was a great read. Not so much about the day to day living like Dana's Two years Before the Mast, Meleville's White Jacket , Bluejacket: An Autobiography by Fred J. Buenzle or "Man-Of-War Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy, During a Voyage Around the World, in a Sh ...
... having a dead author pop up and confront them. Herman Melville might not like my treatment of Moby Dick, but my review of White Jacket should balance it.
*Trying to think of other dead authors I might have offended.*
... the French Second Empire Period. This is the first one I've read and am looking forward to reading others as well.l
White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (1850) Herman Melville.
Melville signed on a whaler in his younger years and didn't like it. He jumped ship in Typee and ...
... The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Double Star and Job A comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein and Billy Budd and White Jacket by Herman Melville I would say I re-read these books again over a two or three year cycle.
More Melville:
Redburn
Whitejacket
A bit "old school," but I recently read White Jacket by Herman Melville, and that was very good ... pretty much a look at Melville's year on a U.S. Navy frigate ... not a lot of action, but good for getting an idea about what it was like back then.
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