- Follow Reading Freely on WordPress.com
Reading Now
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Blogroll
Archives
Meta
Tag Archives: Edward Abbey
Resist Much, Obey Little
Resist Much, Obey Little: Remembering Ed Abbey© 1996 James Hepworth & Gregory McNamee254 pages To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no … Continue reading
Medical tricorders, dirty old men, and controlling the internet
Before we head further into July, here are a few ‘missed’ reviews.. First up, The Patient Will See You Now. This book was part of the “Rebuilding Towards the Future” series, in which I read books about ways that ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged digital world, Edward Abbey, health/wellness, history, law, technology, Technology and Society
4 Comments
Short rounds: explosives and Martians
Tonight I finally gave up on Hayduke Lives!, the sequel to Edward Abbey’s Monkey Wrench Gang. The plot only arrives four-fifths of the way into the book, having been preceded by lots of stream-of-consciousness rambling, pointless arguments, and enough breast … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged American Southwest, C.S.Lewis, CS Lewis, Edward Abbey, fantasy, science fiction
2 Comments
Reads to Reels: Brave Cowboy/Lonely are the Brave
Lonely are the Brave dramatizes Edward Abbey’s Brave Cowboy, and I daresay improves upon it. As with Abbey’s original, the plot features a cowhand who still lives and breathes in the Old West, thrown into conflict against the forces of … Continue reading
The Brave Cowboy
The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time© 1956 Edward Abbey277 pages “Where’re your papers?” “My what?” “Your I.D. — draft card, social security, driver’s license.” “Don’t have none. Don’t need none. I already know who I am.” … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American Southwest, American West, Edward Abbey, Man vs State, New Mexico
2 Comments
Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain© 1961 Edward Abbey211 pages Beneath the shadow of Thieves’ Mountain, Billy Starr has arrived to spend a summer with his grandfather. He has arrived in the middle of a six-month siege, however, one of increasing intensity. … Continue reading
The Journey Home
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West© 1977 Edward Abbey242 pages The desert is no place for decent men, which is why Edward Abbey likes it so much. Born on the eastern seaboard, on a farm … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged adventure, American Southwest, American West, Arizona, Edward Abbey, environmentalism, essays, Nature, New Mexico
Leave a comment
The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang© 1975 Edward Abbey352 pages “Three things my daddy tried to learn me. ‘Son’, he always said, ‘remember these three precepts and you can’t go wrong. One, never eat at a place called Mom’s. Two, never play … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American Literature, American Southwest, anarchism, Edward Abbey, environmentalism, New Mexico
3 Comments
Down the River
Down the River© 1982 Edward Abbey In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey collected contemplative pieces he had written while a park ranger in the high desert, putting his passion for the wilderness into action by working to conserve it. The volume … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American West, Edward Abbey, essays, Nature, rivers, social criticism, Society and Culture
Leave a comment
Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness© 1968 Edward Abbey269 pages Journey to the expansive southwestern American desert and take it in — the vast stretches of open ground, bounded by mountains and broken by marvelously intriguing rock formations that … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American West, Edward Abbey, essays, Nature, social criticism, Society and Culture
1 Comment
