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<h1 style="text-align: center">A Softcover Book Report</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: center">Moby-Dick (or, The Whale)</h2>
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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.
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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sperm_whale_pod.jpg">
<img src="images/sperm_whales.jpg" alt="Sperm Whales" style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;">
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<h3>Moby-Dick: A classic tale of the sea</h3>
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<img src="images/moby_dick.png" alt="Moby Dick" height="200px" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 0 0;">
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<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:
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<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.
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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.
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<h4>Our top 3 favorite things about Moby Dick</h4>
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<li>Vengeful whale</li>
<li>Salty sailors</li>
<li>The names "Queequeg" and "Starbuck"</li>
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<h4>Other things about Moby Dick</h4>
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<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>
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<li>Mad sea captains are fun</li>
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