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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. An Excellent And Gorgeous Adaptation of Moby DickBy Elvin OrtizAuthor Lance Stahlberg and illustrator Lalit Kumar Singh do a stupendous job at tackling one of the longest novels in American literature in graphic format. Stahlberg is faithful to Melville in plot and characterization. While I read it; I felt that I was part of the movie. Captain Ahabs vibrant and dynamic albeit twisted personality was not lost in this adaptation. And Lilats artwork was simply gorgeous and outstanding. If students are reluctant to tackle the original version of Moby Dick (and I cant blame them for that); this is it. Stahlbergs language is dynamic and exciting so that it is impossible to stop reading it. You can still discuss the literary elements and themes with this graphic text. The book has a couple of informative pages about the sperm whale; the existence of the true Moby Dick; and whalers of the nineteenth century. The book certainly deserves its place in the classroom. I highly recommend it.29 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Thanks to the unnamed programmer...By S. T. PorterfieldFrom previous experience I knew there used to be a bug that prevented the original Kindle from linking to footnotes in some content. Thanks to the unnamed programmer who finally fixed this .The content pages are all complete and the text is clear. And the footnote linking works. It appears that has cleaned up the formatting of Kindle content a lot in the past year. Now if theyd offer to re-download clean versions of our previous purchases; that would really boost customer loyalty. As to the content; Id say that $3 for a portable copy of this classic is a good bargain.17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. great story retold for younger audiencesBy BenTackling the likes of Melville or Hawthorne to bring the language down to entry-level is no small task. The quality and the tone of this retelling is remarkably different from the original; but the plot is similar enough that a semblance of the theme emerges. While no literary masterpiece; a child that has read or been read this will at least be familiar with the story.To be clear; if youve read this; youve hardly read Moby-Dick. Youll miss a ton; and quite a bit more than less shortened Classic Starts Ive read like Tom Sawyer; The Jungle Book; and The Call of the Wild. I suppose those other original authors were not as commanding in their use of English as Melville should be regarded.The story is nearly gutted of all the Christian and biblical references; allusion and innuendo. Because of this; character development is very shallow. Because Moby-Dick is a first-person narrative; it has the effect of the reader not really getting to know the protagonist narrator very well; and also of reducing his thoughts and observations of other characters to very cursory ones.In the end; its still at least as good as the average chapter book written to be read to kindergarteners; and it retells a story that has some substance that an adult reader can enjoy (if theyve read Moby Dick). I guess its kind of like reading a childrens version of a bible story -- not the full monty but worthy and if you know more; you might even find yourself inspired to augment it with a little more of the truth.My preschool aged kids enjoyed the story. They created artwork based on the story out of their own initiative; played "whale" in the community pool; and understood allusions and metaphor to princple themes in the story like the blindedness of Ahabs foolish; vengeful wrath.The only way to go wrong here is if this story somehow prevented someone from reading the original when they were later able.