A review by dllh
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry

3.0

I had never read Berry before and had always sort of meant to. I was a little disappointed in what I read of this collection (I skipped a few pieces). There is a sort of ethics in his thinking that appeals to me, but there is also at times a rigid curmudgeonliness that makes it hard for me to think of Berry as other than... "old man shakes fist at clouds." There is beauty in some of his writing, though sometimes he also belabors the extended metaphor a bit. If this book is representative of his writing overall, I reckon I'd like half or less of his writing and feel either pretty cool to or outright annoyed by the rest.