These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Monday, July 12, 2010
A River Ran Out Of Eden; by James Vance Marshall.
Charming and decent tale of a boy protecting a golden seal from a hunter, with the latter threatening his parents and home. The book is unequivocal about the cunning and menace of the hunter unlike the film Golden Seal based on the book, which rather equivocates about the virtues of the hunter and the father. I remember the mother of the boy threatened in the book while the film leaves those parts out too. But the film is visually rather a pleasure.