03/21/2005: "Want to understand the will to live better? Read Jack London's 'The Sea Wolf'"

While we're on these topics of life and death, I figured I should recommend a book that I think really drives to the heart of the subject (although I don't necessarily agree with the conclusions). I make sure to read this book every few years. The last time I read it was over 5 years ago. I read it to my wife in the evenings of our first few months of marriage. It is time to read it again.

You should read it too! It is a great achievement in expressing the inate desire in all of us to live:

The Sea Wolf by Jack London.

It is also, in my opinion, Jack London's best book. I can say this with some authority as I've read a great number of them: Call of the Wild, White Fang, Mutiny of the Elsinore, The Iron Heel (an interesting read) and others.