R. Johnstone

Absolutly Fantastic, Jun 7 2012

I bought this book purely on the 4.5 star average rating without any real knowledge of its subject or author. I was absolutely blown away by it's narrative. Abbey is a terrific author and was able to put me right in his shoes as he described the world he was living in. The anecdotes are interesting and sincere and while the book lacks a "flow" or anything linking the events, they all seem to have the same tone and fit together well.

Specifically, there are just many insightful quotes found within the book that I found I could tie to my everyday life. As an environmentalist I often find it hard to put into words the reasons for why I love nature and Abbey does that… Read more

A Bias Competition With Ezra Levant (and it's a damn close race), Mar 20 2012

To provide some background on my opinion on this book: I currently study natural resource conservation and am committed to stopping climate change through a reduction of greenhouse gasses including CO2. That being said, I also spent 8 months working for Syncrude in their environmental research department and living in Fort McMurray. I bought this book along with 2 others (both are in the suggested panel on this page and I speak of them below) to try to gain a bit more perspective on the industry as a whole and to get some information I was not exposed to.

I honestly don't think there was a single chapter in Nikifourk's book which didn't utterly dumbfound me. Not only does he… Read more