In 1960, two high school friends were assigned to read the Herman
Melville novel Moby-Dick. Neither one of them read it. Four decades
later, plagued by feelings of guilt at never having read The Great
American Novel, the two friends grab for belated gusto. Over the six
months of their reading odyssey, the authors wrote a series of letters
and e-mails chronicling their experience and encouraging each other's
progress. This body of correspondence is now a book. Actually, the
reading of Moby-Dick is just a platform. And while it is the primary
substance of the book, the writers do not worry themselves much about
staying within subject matter boundaries. The letters also touch on:
their fifty-year friendship, growing old, Alex Rodriguez, the War in
Iraq, Bob Dylan, speculation on the chances of getting sick in Mexico,
the true story of how Hemingway got to Sweden, the cause of nightmares,
Bebe Rebozo, Vladimir Nabokov, redemption and death. TWO GUYS READ
MOBY-DICK will have you laughing from start to finish, and pondering
life's many mysteries, of course!