tamarack's review
A Language Older Than Words
by Derrick Jensen
tamarack's review
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
tamarack's review
rating:
recommended for: everyone
we've probably all heard the heaps of praise being composted upon derrick jensen. he's like an artist of words - the man can write. of all his (increasingly large) books, language is the finest i've found. i'd give it to everyone i know if i could afford to and if i could actually make them sit down and read it. so now's my chance: read it. buy it, absorb it (what else can you do?), and pass it along. i usually get shy around books that get articles written about them in green anarchy, but by the end of the first chapter i forgot all about the worries that i mightn't grasp it and sat mesmerised by jensen's writing and self-propelled honesty. language is like a reference book unto itself; and though i've since read three other jensen books language remains amazing. maybe i've over-hyped it now, but give it a shot and see if it isn't the most amazing book you'll read this year.
