A Day's Lodging and Other Stories
By
Jack London
| Price: | $2.95 |
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| Categories: | General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9785551050926, 9780740831614, 9785551062776 |
| Publisher: | Xlibris Corporation, PDM Classics |
| Language: | English |
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A Day's Lodging and Other Stories
Dan (Saint Louis, MO)
Wed Jun 04 2008 11:01
Growing up, while the rest of my family hated the movie, I have always been inexplicably attracted to its ideas. Whenever it was on the TV, I had to sneak down to the basement to watch it. The film is one of the few out there that can speak to my innermost soul.
I finally read the book a...more...
Jean (Brooklyn, NY)
Wed Dec 16 2009 18:46
this is one of those books my mother has been telling me to read for what feels like my whole life. the opening sentence, about jesus' disciples being fly fisherman and john, the favorite, being a dry-fly fisherman, was quoted and referred to on the screen porch in the afternoon, at the dinner tab...more...
Timothy (Missoula, MT)
Thu Dec 17 2009 07:10
There is a rawness to the stories that Norman Maclean tells in this collection. He lived the stories 30 or 40 years before he wrote them into this book. His writing is poetry, harsh and spare. It reminds me a little bit of Hemingway but with a more refined sense of place. Hemingway seemed to be sear...more...
Leftbanker (Valencia Spain, Spain)
Mon Sep 24 2007 13:51
I really, really fucking hate to fish, but. Can you end a sentence with "but?" Did I write that correctly with the quotation marks? Do you see what I'm doing here? I'm using humor to avoid talking about my real feelings.
When I first read this book I was on a cross-country f...more...
Stephanie (The United States)
Wed Apr 30 2008 12:12
It's easy to allow yourself to get bored with this one. But push through it; you won't regret it. This is a story about two brothers who grow up fly fishing, and they're taught by their minister father how physical grace and spiritual grace can become the same thing through fishing. It's a beautiful...more...
Brian (Baldwin, MD)
Mon Feb 18 2008 20:59
The story is different from the movie, if I remember the movie right. Well, okay, the movie I think, for once, is longer than the story. Meaning the movie makers embellished the movie a bit.
I could be wrong.
The book - at least the title story - is a wonderful portrait of the family...more...
Matt (Omaha, NE)
Sun Mar 28 2010 14:22
When I was a kid, my grandma had this pinched-copper wind-up train. You gave it a couple cranks and the engine would circle the station while the music box churned a mournful tune. For reasons I couldn't explain then, and can only slightly explain now, the train always made me wistfully sad.
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Sam (Manchester, NH)
Tue May 12 2009 20:37
This is a story of two boys who grow up with the authority of a Presbyterian Minister. They were given the same instruction as children growing up and turned out so different. One was a daredevil determined to challenge the world. The other became a writer and reflective. The two of them could not h...more...
John (Los Angeles, CA)
Tue Aug 28 2007 17:09
Technically, I only read the title story of this collection, but it makes up most of the book, so I don't feel that bad about putting in my "read" shelf. The story is beautifully written, and from the first pages, you want to get out on the river and start fishing. It's definitely worth ...more...
Bucko (Youngstown, OH)
Tue Feb 16 2010 03:44
This is probably my favorite book not written by J.R.R. Tolkien. I'm not really much of a fisherman, but I do know a thing or two about being a Presbyterian pastor's son. The story is perhaps a bit too long to relate here, but this book found me, not the other way around. It was a profound readin...more...
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