And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Speaking of building fires, this is a worthwhile addition to anyone's library
I love Jack London and all the books in there. I read everything I could find of his.
For more than 60 years I had never even heard of the one book that was a commercial success in his lifetime. Burning Daylight is the very best of all his great books. I've read it half a dozen times in the past 10 years, listened to it another half dozen (free audiobook at librivox.org)
Just add the collected works of Robert W Service to that, and you'll be all set. My wife had never read "Call of the Wild" so we listened to it last week traveling into Wyoming.
I love Jack London and all the books in there. I read everything I could find of his.
ReplyDeleteFor more than 60 years I had never even heard of the one book that was a commercial success in his lifetime. Burning Daylight is the very best of all his great books. I've read it half a dozen times in the past 10 years, listened to it another half dozen (free audiobook at librivox.org)
Read it.
Burning Daylight, eh? Looks like I have my next book to buy and read. Thanks!
DeleteI've got a simiiar volume: it's a great collection.
ReplyDeleteJust add the collected works of Robert W Service to that, and you'll be all set.
ReplyDeleteMy wife had never read "Call of the Wild" so we listened to it last week traveling into Wyoming.
The modern Jack London is Gary Paulsen. Try: My Life in Dog Years
ReplyDelete*His fiction is for kids. All of it is readable, but a mixed-bag for adults. NF is great.