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Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

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zoe_maria's review

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adventurous challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

g_bryce42's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Herman Melville is very hard for me to read because after I read the book, I would have to try and figure out what the story line really was. Once I figured it out though, I liked the story line, I just didn't like trying to figure out what was going on.

briesespieces's review

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2.0

suing my professor for intentional infliction of emotional distress and for the fact that i couldn’t dnf this book since it was an assigned reading. i have never yearned to finish a book as much as i did this one. it nearly put me into a reading slump and depressed me a bit.

i was determined to give this a one star but i couldn’t by the end because there were a lot of things in this that resonated strongly with me, so that was a plus. just happy to be done that’s all.

52 Book Club Challenge: Published Posthumously.