And exactly four months after my baby’s birth, I am now
fully caught up with the books I have been reading lately. This was an old book
that my mom passed onto me because they had two copies and were going to donate
one to our local library if I wasn’t going to pick it up.
I had never read any Jack London (unless you count children
versions of White Fang and The Call of the Wild) and The Road,
in particular at the start, just blew my mind. The first couple of sections
beat pretty much all the other books on American economic crises that I have
read (except for Grapes of Wrath –
that remains at the very top, despite the fact that I am aware of the fact that
it deals with another recession).
However, after one gets the general idea, the book has a
tendency to repeat itself quite frequently (I’m not quite sure how many “blinds”
London jumped on in those two hundred pages!). That said, it remains an excellent
read, and it is surprisingly humorous for a 19th century collection
of anecdotes about hardship and deprivation!
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