Fluke

Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

321 pages

English language

Published Sept. 4, 2004 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-056668-5
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
436820197

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (29 reviews)

Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon.

Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was …

1 edition

Review of 'Fluke' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

As someone who has only read one other Moore book, I was admittedly pretty entertained by just how far this book went into vulgar-town. That probably says more about me than the book...

While it might wrap up a bit too quickly and neatly, it's still engaging for its bizarre qualities alone. There's a number of genuinely memorable characters and the concept is the most creative I've seen for a book involving whales. It might disappoint big Moore readers, and even I can tell that this probably isn't his best work, but it works as a light read. Just don't read it as your first Moore book.

avatar for ckochx

rated it

5 stars
avatar for Elspeth

rated it

4 stars
avatar for WillDHB

rated it

3 stars
avatar for kimkarma66

rated it

3 stars
avatar for unsquare

rated it

3 stars
avatar for mcchots

rated it

3 stars
avatar for AnneOminous

rated it

3 stars
avatar for Lowrain

rated it

3 stars
avatar for jstritch

rated it

4 stars
avatar for chrismaler

rated it

3 stars
avatar for Dvmheather

rated it

3 stars
avatar for Minotaur

rated it

3 stars
avatar for FrozenTrout

rated it

3 stars
avatar for Shepy

rated it

2 stars
avatar for bentreegecko

rated it

5 stars
avatar for jbaty

rated it

4 stars
avatar for Scopique

rated it

5 stars
avatar for sciatrix

rated it

4 stars
avatar for AdamMoe2023

rated it

4 stars
avatar for fear025

rated it

5 stars
avatar for dianamontalion

rated it

3 stars

Subjects

  • Humpback whale
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Midlife crisis
  • Fiction

Places

  • Hawaii