{"id":653,"date":"2005-08-10T20:49:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T03:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2005-08-10T20:49:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T03:49:23","slug":"traven-and-his-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2005\/08\/traven-and-his-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Traven and his books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone recommended this book to me: The Death Ship<\/em>. He said, “It’s by Traven.”<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah!” I remembered. “That’s the guy who did The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.<\/em> I had to read that for a film and lit class. It was really good.”<\/p>\n

Since I had to take a test on it, I knew that Traven was kind of a pinko socialist kind of guy. He wrote TOTSM as a kind of critique on capitalism and greed, etc. The story is about goldminers, after all. How much more greedy can you get?<\/p>\n

But TOTSM was a great story, and I actually liked hearing the description of how they did the actual mining. Being from Alaska,I ran into a few gold miners now and again.<\/p>\n

As is often the case, the book is better than the movie, but the movie is really great too.<\/p>\n

Remembering all this I went to check out The Death Ship<\/em>. This one was in a similar style and structure as TOTSM, but unless you are really into sailing…I mean, I don’t know. It didn’t grab me. It went on and on in very grim depressing language about how this life was so awful and the ship was so crappy. In the end, I couldn’t finish it.<\/p>\n

Which is too bad. The other book was so great I would have loved to read another like it. Maybe I’ll try some of his other books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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