Helpful Score: 2
It is hard to describe how good this book is. Studs Terkel called it "a remarkable narrative of a worklife." It is laid out without preface in 14 "chapters." The narrator is a "rigger." This is a person whose job is supervising the setting up of very large cranes, often very very large. In each chapter the narrator is talking to another rigger, an old friend. As the book unfolds, the reader begins to realize that the author/narrator is laying out a work ethic for riggers. or anyone who builds things, or fixes things, or who just works their hands. And finally, a perceptive reader sees that the book is a metaphor for how to live your life. If I could award it eight or ten stars I would. Before someone grabs it, I think I will read it again.
Dr. John T. West, III
aka wildhog3
Dr. John T. West, III
aka wildhog3
