I’ve blathered on extensively to everyone I know about this, but there it is again – you should really be listening to the Moby Dick Big Read , Moby Dick read a chapter a day by different readers. Highlights thus far include Tilda Swinton’s perfectly nuanced Chapter 1, Keith Collins’s chilly and atmospheric Chapter 7, and Simon Callow’s nautical sermon in Chapter 9 (less fire and brimstone, more lightning and saltwater).