Review: Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is actually three separate stories in one book. The first Revenge was by far the best, but the second two rocked as well!

This book is my "discovery" of Jim Harrison, a prolific writer and poet. The years ahead will be filled with his works because this man doesn't just offer beautiful, impactful sentences. It becomes clear through his words and reflections that he was one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

"No one has figured out how accidental is the marriage of blasphemy and fate.

He looked around the clearing in recognition that he was lost but didn’t mind because he knew he had never been found.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits."

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