Last year, someone convinced a bunch of famous people to do a reading a chapter each. They released a reading every day. I read it for the first time along with the recordings. The recordings of the chapters are here at the "Moby Dick Big Read.
I rather enjoyed the book.
Someone also gave me the hint to read it like it was some guy’s blog. It really works that way. Sometimes the blogger tells you about his day, sometimes he gets lost in his own thoughts about the biology of whales - but he’s a pretty good writer, so you keep reading it.