Books That Made a Difference To
Ethan Hawke

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Moby-Dick
By Herman Melville
I found this novel so surprising. I thought it would be a deep, interesting tale like Anna Karenina; instead it's a giant prose poem that, paragraph by paragraph, has some of the most beautiful writing in the English language. But I won't lie; it's homework.
Hawke calls Dostoevsky a "punk rocker"
By Herman Melville
I found this novel so surprising. I thought it would be a deep, interesting tale like Anna Karenina; instead it's a giant prose poem that, paragraph by paragraph, has some of the most beautiful writing in the English language. But I won't lie; it's homework.
Hawke calls Dostoevsky a "punk rocker"