Kick your summer off right with a different kind of beach read: Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. (Okay, it’s more of a sea read than a beach read.)
To put you in the right mood, Liberty Hardy over at Book Riot took a stab (from hell’s heart) at a Moby-Dick playlist.
From Tom Waits’s “Starving in the Belly of a Whale” to, well, “[e]very Decemberists song,” the lineup will have you shaking your fist at the heavens with impotent rage in no time.
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