I finished the book almost three weeks ago, but then I got caught in the day job with overtimes and in the year end parties, I hope I will get back here and give it the consideration and attention it deserves.For now, let me just say that it is worthy of using caps, as in Great American Novel.---...
Life is a process of gradually narrowing choices. You learn this early in life, often when playing sports. You know you’re not going to be a Major League Baseball player because you can’t hit a curveball, or a fast fastball, or, in fact, the ball off a tee. Later, in school, you discover that you...
I cannot say I enjoyed reading this book. It is depressing, The family is doomed, there isn't much humor and the author's writing has a melancholic tone. Furthermore, each episode went on and on and on; the author used too many words to get his message across.Nevertheless, I left the novel with a...
I had wanted to read another novel by Wallace Stegner since “Crossing to Safety”. “The Spectator Bird” lived up to expectations and not because it won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1977. Even though it was written almost forty years ago, the relevance of the issues it dealt with shon...
Some stories are pure entertainment. Some are built for other purposes, as with Wallace Stegnar’s, All The Live Little Things. There was not much that I found entertaining, but if I measure the story by it’s impact on me, by it’s provocative nature and wide open doorway to self-reflection, then i...
Although there are a couple of other books I've read this year that may be technically better, damned if this isn't my favorite. Like a Tchaicovsky movement from The Nutcracker, I have read and reread this sucker so many times that it has become a part of me, incorporated in an organic way in my ...
You can take every western movie you've seen and every western book you've read and erase them from your memory. Then read this one book and it will more than make up for the loss.A terse account of a lynching, the Ox-Bow Incident is a man's book. It deals with a man's world where communication b...
This is a book about Joe Hill, the Union Organiser and Wobbly Bard who was executed in 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He of the famous son, sung in the 60's by Joan Baez, "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and me...".My edition is actually a Penguin edition not shown - which I got ...