Jet Silver
Abandoned at 50%. I was looking for stories of one man living in the desert, and I liked those parts. The social commentary, thoughts on policy and infrastructure, and to be honest the gore got rather too much. I'm sure Mr Abbey was quite socially liberal for his time, but the attitudes to women and anyone else who isn't a white able bodied manly man were more than I wanted to spend any more time with.
I was working with the audio copy, and it's possible I would have pushed through if I had a physical copy - I could have skipped the chapters about how cars are evil, etc, (sure, but that battle is lost) and the chapter about how to fix the Navajos (just yikes all the way), and then perhaps the voice wouldn't have began to sound so smug and self satisfied after four or five hours of this.
This one's just not for me, but if anyone knows of desert stories without too much in the way of regressive politics, I'd love the rec.
Abandoned at 50%. I was looking for stories of one man living in the desert, and I liked those parts. The social commentary, thoughts on policy and infrastructure, and to be honest the gore got rather too much. I'm sure Mr Abbey was quite socially liberal for his time, but the attitudes to women and anyone else who isn't a white able bodied manly man were more than I wanted to spend any more time with.
I was working with the audio copy, and it's possible I would have pushed through if I had a physical copy - I could have skipped the chapters about how cars are evil, etc, (sure, but that battle is lost) and the chapter about how to fix the Navajos (just yikes all the way), and then perhaps the voice wouldn't have began to sound so smug and self satisfied after four or five hours of this.
This one's just not for me, but if anyone knows of desert stories without too much in the way of regressive politics, I'd love the rec.