Subscribe to Read | $0.00
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!
Quick and Easy Sign Up!
It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.
Read Anywhere and on Any Device!
Rate this book!
Write a review?
Dr. Daugherty was one of my favorite professors at Oregon State, but I never had the courage to ask him why he was so depressed. Reading his work leaves me with a profound sense of isolation, loneliness, and depression. Brilliant work, but not uplifting.
I'm not sure why this one has such low ratings. I thought Daugherty did a masterful job at entering me into a world full of warmth, humor, depth, and clarity. Adams is a cartographer and drummer caught in a world of meaning-making and existential confusion: his family is in shambles (kind of), he is being stalked by a shadowy figure and he ends up sailing away, shoving himself into the carcass of a horse somewhere in the icy folds of Greenland. While that summary doesn't do the book much justice...
Cliched as it is, remember never to judge a book by its cover.I found this book from my dad's "To sell" pile as we were cleaning my grandma's workshop. I did not know the author and the book had one of the back covers that usually turn me off- a large picture of the author.Old, to be sold(rejected), with a bad cover, with low goodreads ratings/readers, written by an unfamiliar author, this book turned out to be one of my best reads this month. If you are into literary theory, you will mine this
