Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation for adding my Moby Dick piece to their Cultural Fallout of the Week spotlight, and for the twitter ( http://twitter.com/powermobydick ).
Powermobydick is a site with the full text of Mellville’s Moby Dick plus annotations on the text. I read Moby Dick for the first time about 7 or 8 years ago, and fell in love with it. If they’d made me read it in high school, though, I probably would have been put off it. It’s a great tale, wih many subtexts (the major theme is obsession, and the book is obsessional in many ways), and there is a reason that it’s a classic.