Classic Adventure Fiction
Book Reviews
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During February, I re-read the H.G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. In March, I will be re-reading Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River.” The latter is a story I have re-read every spring now for more than 45 years. I have come to believe that one of the many reasons I re-read books is that returning to them… Read more
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Here in the North Country, we had a few days of 50-degree weather, but yesterday it snowed again. Those few days of warmth, though, were a foretaste of the feast to come. We are told that ICE is drawing down its numbers here in Minnesota, but reports on the ground remain unclear as to whether… Read more
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I have lost count now of how many times I have actually read this classic adventure. Yet in October, I got an urge yet again to give Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson another rereading. Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle are the prose writers who have the most amount of work that I regularly find myself returning to… Read more
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After rereading Doyle’s “The Lost World,” I decided to reread another Lost World tale, this one The Land that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Unlike many boys my age, I never read any Edgar Rice Burroughs (or Hardy Boys for that matter) when I was young. Tarzan was familiar, of course, from television, the… Read more
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This fall I was apparently in the mood to reread old favorites. That meant, as I have reviewed them here, books like Dracula, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and of course, Sherlock Holmes. For today I am reviewing another old favorite that is a different kind of creation from the imagination… Read more
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Journey to the Center of the Earth starts with a quirky, excitable German professor named Otto Lidenbrock, who discovers an old Icelandic manuscript with a mysterious coded message. When his patient, good-natured nephew Axel helps to decode it, and they realize it describes a secret path leading deep into the Earth’s interior. Lidenbrock, being the kind of man… Read more
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Another year and another rereading of Dracula. This year my rereading amounted to listening to an excellent, unabridged audiobook version of Stoker’s classic I had not listened to before, an 18-hour, 25-minute version of Dracula featuring Patricia Alison, Rachel Atkins, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jason Forbes, Theo James, Harry Myers, Himish Patel, Jason Watkins, and Richard Reed.… Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on January 27th, 2018. As mentioned in an earlier post here, I have been reading some of the classic Adventure novels that I did not read as a boy or young man. These are books that I… Read more
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“Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over 15 years for various blogs. This was first posted on February 2, 2012. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ~ Groucho Marx I must confess that I am a bad television… Read more
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