Description: A sailor afloat in a cubical...for a few years
Posted on March 15, 2020 by Kris
There is an old saying: ‘Make haste. Slowly.’ That is how it feels when you read Deliverance , by James Dickey . Like a simple, slow burn that is coming down to a nub. There is a sense of elegance, danger, and mankind instinctively fighting back against the elements and the wild to find something akin to peace. I really enjoyed this book (for what it is worth, it is even rated among the top novels of all time on some lists).
This is the tale of three normal guys – the main character, Ed, is an advertising executive at a small town firm – who decide they need to face nature. The fourth character, Lewis, is larger than life and obsessed with survival out in the wild. He “wanted to be immortal.” Yet even Lewis has a normal life with a wife and three kids and a 9-to-5 , but “he couldn’t make it work” and feels he must conquer his primal self. So Lewis convinces the others to head out for a weekend canoe trip in the Appalachian hill