I haven’t the time or engergy to read the whole damn thing. Does anyone know where I can get a concise summary?
Paul. If it’s homework, then take it somewhere else.
If you’re just reading it for fun 
, then you actually do have the time to read the whole thing. You just need to post less on the boards.
Are you asking us to do your homework? If so, I predict the life of this thread to be nasty, brutish, and short.
Sparknotes has a guide for Leviathan.
Leviathan in a nutshell:
Humanity sucks. Here’s far too many pages elaborating why.
Ooh, I should go submit that to One-Minute Insert Work Here.
Ignore them. These people have bviously never worked a homework hotline. Try this.
Even if this IS an assignment for school, I hope you aren’t foolish enough to plagarize. That said, i see no harm in offering you a chance to read a secondary source before you (hopefully) tackle the primary material yourself.
Peter Weller is the chief muckety-muck on a deep sea mining rig. The miners discover a long-defunct Soviet sunken ship. On board, they find what they think is vodka. Peter Weller forbids the crew from drinking it, but of course they do. Turns out that the vodka is really some sort of mutation-causing serum that turns Daniel Stern into a voracious sea monster, which proceeds to eat the crew one by one…
What???
People are bad to each other. In a “state of nature,” this makes life “nasty, brutish and short.” Anarchy means a constant war of all against all. It’s better to just submit meekly to absolute rule of the strongest bastard around.
Green Bean. Stop confusing the issue. The REAL Hob’s Leviathan takes place on an English sailing ship, The Sea Witch, with an intriguing cast of sailors, mysterious ship-owner named Hob Galding, and a diminuative Indian stowaway. The narrator, Jim, has a couple of particularly surprising secrets concerning visions at sea and one’s projected identity. All of which, of course, is recounted in a remarkable Inn…
Now it’s my turn. What?