04/06/2005: "A final book recommendation"

The other book I try to read every handful of years besides "The Sea Wolf" is Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. It's a book about a man who lived through the near elimination of the human race through a plague. The plague is over in the first chapter and the book is about living in a world after society has disappeared.

It's a great book about how our lives are tied up in the society we live in and how life, in it's real essence, is far more complex than what we limit it to. Although the writer has a godless view of the world, the reality is that for a person of faith, it makes you think of what it means to hand your life over to God knowing how temporary our lives are.

I'm reading it right now. It starts slow and that's what I'm grinding through right now but as I remember, the last 50 pages are the best 50 pages I've read. I'll give an update when I finish it.