Billy Budd Audiobook

" There is so much to this short work that I could go on for days talking about it. Great story, characters, symbolism, theme, etc. One of the best I have ever used in the classroom. "

" I like the Christ metaphor, but I found this one dry and hard to read. I had to force myself to get it read. "

" It's so confusing and hard to understand! "

" Worst fucking novella ever. Fuck you, Melville. "

" This book was introduced to me as the quintessential moral quandary. Supposedly, Budd engaged in mutiny and the captain/admiral was forced to decide whether to administer the appropriate punishment, which was death, despite the fact that Billy was incredibly popular. But his popularity was what made him dangerous. Sounds good, right? I just could NOT care about any of these people. If I remember right, I couldn't even understand what Budd had supposedly done wrong. So this book could not answer for me the fundamental question all books must answer: "who cares?" (The answer should be, at least, "me!") "

" I enjoy Melville's verbose style, but some of his descriptions just go on and on. Overall, not a bad story, though I doubt I'll re-read it. "

" This little book has intrigued me for years. There's much to think about here. "

" We had to read this for English class... The most boring book ever! :( "

" I am not a Melville fan, and I didn't care for this story. The only reason it gets two stars is because I had such an excellent college professor who took us through this, so I at least got something out of it. "

" In high school, we read this in lieu of Moby Dick because it was shorter. Hang it all, there's apparently more than meets the aye-yi (sir), but it was lost on us! "

" I just read this last year- I don't know what I was waiting for. "

" All I remember about this book is that I was forced to read it for class and didn't like it at all. Met Scott in that class, though. So that was good. :) "

" A whole lot of tell in this little tale. Melville manages to stir for only the last twenty or so pages. The manuscript needed editing, but Herman up and died. "

" It was really hard and confusing. There is a lot of symbolism, but I wasn't able to pick it up on my own. "

" In his usual style, Melville continually kept my brain working by using numerous historical, biblical, and mythical allusions. "

" I am reading this book for my English honors class. Very good, great vocabulary. "

" I just can't warm to anything by Melville, it seems -- with the only possible exception if Bartleby. "

" I read this as part of a Humanities course on Law and Language. I do not remember being particularly blown away; was happier reading Cabeza de Vaca. "

" Ugh. I can still remember sloughing my way through discussion after discussion of this boring, and I mean BORING, story during high school English. "

" Moby Dick is one of my favorite novels, and I think the technical writing (and period prose) were much easier on my ears in the grand setting and plot of Ahab and the Whale. Here, I got gobbled by the text, but will enjoy reading this again some day. "

" School assignment when I was in middle school. HATED IT! "

" Very difficult to get through when I read this in High School. In fact, everybody hated it but given that I don't remember too much about it I may give it a second try. "

" An enjoyable parable, with Billy-as-Christ easy to see. But the prose if often far more difficult than needed. "

" Well, it certainly does SUCK. "

" Emily was right. Booooo Billy Budd booooo "

" WTF did I just read. No clue what happened. Thank god the last chapter had a quick sum up of events. "

" Wish I could've given it a 3.5 "

" Interesting Insites into navel history. library book sale. "

" Reading Project Gutenberg, and too lazy to create a new book to prove it. "

" This book was left uncompleted at the time of Melville's death. It is not in the same league as Moby Dick. Melville was not particularly successful as a writer, and this book tends to show that. Perhaps he only had one truly great book in him. "

" I laughed when there was a heated discussion in one episode of The Sopranos about this book. Not one of my favorites, but not terrible, either. "

" a wonderful classic, i criedthen i cried again in the movi3 version "

" The worst punishment I could imagine my hell to be is reading this book. "

" if i could give it a lower score i would "

" Much more digestible than Moby Dick. "