I feel like Moby-Dick is having a moment this summer. Loving reading+listening this version (free to access) including audiobook and generative notes and discussion, which are a lot of fun with a book of this depth and complexity: https://volume.pub/moby-dick?src=quo
"Pocock is the most interesting character in the book."
Joe Rantz is the book - Pocock's shell designing and building is only an interesting aside.
Pocock is dwarfed by the young man, Rantz, who is the boat's leader and who is abandoned by his father at 15 and then has to reach inside to make something of himself. I mean if an author spends half the book on Rantz and his personal story and development into a man, don't you think he did that for a reason?
It's like saying, "I just read the New Testament and the most interesting person is Pontius Pilate or Judas."
I feel like Moby-Dick is having a moment this summer. Loving reading+listening this version (free to access) including audiobook and generative notes and discussion, which are a lot of fun with a book of this depth and complexity: https://volume.pub/moby-dick?src=quo
Didn't know books needed character sheets... now I need one for every recommendation.🤌
This is a great lineup. I just finished John Eliot Gardiner's biography of Bach which is excellent.
https://www.amazon.com/Bach-Castle-John-Eliot-Gardiner/dp/1400031435
I wrote a post about it here if you want the crunchy nuggets upfront:
https://jarombra.substack.com/p/soli-deo-gloria
About Boys in The Boat - Big disagreement there.
"Pocock is the most interesting character in the book."
Joe Rantz is the book - Pocock's shell designing and building is only an interesting aside.
Pocock is dwarfed by the young man, Rantz, who is the boat's leader and who is abandoned by his father at 15 and then has to reach inside to make something of himself. I mean if an author spends half the book on Rantz and his personal story and development into a man, don't you think he did that for a reason?
It's like saying, "I just read the New Testament and the most interesting person is Pontius Pilate or Judas."
Love these !!!!
I'll definitely read Becoming Steve Jobs, by Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli