MOBY DICK

SUMMARY

Ishmael, a young man, joins a whaler boat, the Pequod, with a pagan harpooner named Queequeg. The ship is commanded by Captain Achab, a man who has lost a leg in his confrontation with a whale called Moby Dick. Although the voyage seems to conform to the habitual patterns - the descriptions of the fishing of the whale are extraordinary - Ismael soon realizes that the captain of the Pequod has a peculiar behavior. Achab is a competent sailor but his main interest is not the capture of cetaceans, but the revenge against the animal that mutilated it. The sinister oracles add to the scenes a dark tint that reaches its climax with the sighting of the longed whale.

The animal, whose back is covered with twisted harpoons, does not let itself be overcome. On the contrary, it attacks the whaling boats causing the deaths of its occupants. Then it is directed against the ship whose sticks destroys, finally causing its sinking. Achab and the whole crew die, except for Ishmael, who is saved perched on the coffin of Queequeg, the harpooner. Although the argument appears to be simple, the truth is that Moby Dick far transcends the story of adventures. Conceived from Melville's personal experiences, combined with elements from Spenser, Dante, Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, Thomas Carlyle, Cervantes and the Bible, it is an emblematic work and a reflection full of symbolism about the human being's ability to cope with An inexorable fate that he thinks he can master.

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THE BOY WITH CUCKOO CLOCK HEART

THE BOY WITH THE CUCKOO-CLOCK HEAT

 BY MATHIAS MALZIEU

SUMMARY
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Brooding, cruel-faced, handsome, Mathias Malzieu glares out from the endpapers of his book, originally published in France as La mécanique du coeur. The biography claims he's a rock star, but my research with French teenagers, garagistes and a CD shopkeeper brought blanks. Either way, this, Malzieu's third book, proves he has a way with metaphor.







MAIN MESSAGE

If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive.”


 

THE MADMAN´S TALE

By Jhon Katzenbach

Summary

 

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 It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there’s nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out.

  MAIN MESSAGE

•Sometimes the crazy people see the world in a better way than the normal people

•We are afraid of changes. We are scared to stay the same. We are terrified of anything out of the ordinary, or a change in routine

 

 

 

The zahir

The narrator of  The Zahir  is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn’t have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.

"Wen I was trying to find her, I fund my self"

MAIN IDEA

We often want people to love us in the same way that we love them, but love manifests itself in different ways and we have to understand that although each person has different ways of loving does not mean that they do not love us deeply.

"Veronika Decides to Die" tells the story of a young woman's transformation from despairing would-be suicide to affirmed and then affirming survivor. 
This book offers an archetypal story of hope, portraying a situation in which joy, freedom, integrity and truth all remain possible under the most challenging and limiting of circumstances. 
In doing so, the narrative thematically explores the nature of insanity, the importance of living a genuine life, and the threats to individual identity imposed by closed communities and the rules under which they function.