Posted by Howard Haynes on May 27, 2001 at 04:38:19:
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I cannot read LL without getting persistant about finishing. Once I start I keep reading even when I have read it before!! Just finished Westward the Tide and Ride the River. Strong books with lots of LL philosophy. Westward has a long (page or so) monologe by an old indian who comes into the camp. It has a very strong ecological/enviornmental message. For a statement written in 1977 it is up to date today. It is a very sad speech and seems to be placed there almost as an aside rather than a full part of the plot. Ride has a good description of the first logging of the big trees. It to has some strong parts of ll philsophy that tend to stay with one. The ideals that LL wrote in his books and later stories are clear and present still today. I think that as more people read his books around the world they will understand more of what our young country was built upon and maybe will help them to become stronger, too. The beginning of Ride and Flint are masterful in setting the stage and |