Almost done with The Gunslinger.
Edit: I have finished The Gunslinger. On to Drawing of the Three.
Really enjoyed the series. As you progress through the books, the earlier ones seem so far away, both in time and writing style. King wrote them over a 30 year period or something, so they are all quite different.
Just finished Upton Sinclair's
The Jungle. It really held my attention throughout the whole story, and nearly makes you a socialist by the end. What's interesting, is that the entire point of the book was missed on the public, even at the time it was written, since it is most remembered as a sort of expose of the Chicago meat packing industry, when that was just the background to the poor immigrant family working there. Sinclair said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
The whole story is a crescendo leading to a his elaborate socialist ideas, and I wonder how Sinclair felt about the communist revolutions which came only a few years after this book. I found an article about him in the NY times, which says "By 1953... Sinclair had become a committed cold warrior, convinced that the Soviet Union for which he had once had high hopes was a tyranny worse than Hitler's."
Im now attempting Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged for the second time, since I figure a book known for its libertarian capitalist rant might be an interesting read after
The Jungle.
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