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Title: About This Life : Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0-679-75447-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excells all
Comment: This book is full of beautiful imagry, a must for people who crave to go places and see things. His essays/memoirs excell above all others. The writing reflects his thoughts so vividly you would swear you were there. If you like reading about far away places and the experiences and adventures of a very cultrued and passionate writer, than this is the book for you.
Rating: 3
Summary: I Never Could Finish The Book, But Some Parts Are Good
Comment: I understand some people like this book very much, but I have a dissenting opinion. I did have the pleasure of hearing him read in person and he is indeed very captivating. But keep in mind what this book is about. It is basically a set of essays about places he has been and his insights and knowledge of those places. When it works, it works brilliantly. The essays I liked I could read several times over--he does some fascinating things (traveling on a cargo plane for several weeks comes to mind, or staying with a pottery community also comes to mind). However, when it doesn't work, you realize that not much is really happening and it feels very slow, maybe even unreadable. I just had to stop reading some of the essays after awhile. So it was really hit and miss with me.
What the other reviewers say about his attitude towards life and nature is right. He is very concerned with geography, not just the physical geography of a place, but also the emotional geography of a place. In a time when we don't always feel very connected to places, reading this book could help you feel connected again, to glimmer what it is like to really feel a part of the place in which you live.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lopez is the champion storyteller
Comment: In an era where American storytelling is all but dead, Lopez may be the resurrection. Lopez gives us his sketches about life with the precision of a master craftsman but with the story telling skills of my grandmother. All essays are compelling, and the only disappointing moment is when the reader realizes that he or she is on the last page.
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Title: Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679721835 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0375727485 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: OF WOLVES AND MEN by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0684163225 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 September, 1979 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Rediscovery of North America by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679740996 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Winter Count by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679781412 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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