The Valley of the Moon (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from KikiUnhinged

I can't believe I tortured myself through 500 and some odd pages! Boring and sappy. How I hate wasting this much investment in a story thinking surely it'll get better but it just gets worse. I stuck with it because the time period's union strife might've been educational but it wasn't other than...

from Bjace

"Oakland is just a place to start." Jack London, an Oakland, Calif. native, lived an epic American life in a short 40 years. He wrote an enormous number of novels, the most familiar of which are his adventure novels. While Valley of the moon isn't exactly autobiographical, it's a tribute to his s...

from madepercy

Others have suggested this was the forerunner to Jack Kerouac's On the Road, but this is only evident in the third book. I was surprised by a dead-end thread character who reappears only briefly to show the changes in the prize-fighting protagonist as he becomes wiser. The usual Jack London class...