20 years ago I tried reading this book, straight after One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and hated it, skimmed it, and never understood it.

The book is about two half brothers in a logging town in Oregon, and sprawls between the narratives and the minds of them, with an aging full-of-piss- father and a backdrop of Unions versus scabbers. Leland is the educated meek younger brother and Hank is Henry's oldest son, a prodigal and homeboy thrown back together by an economic crisis.

The background is the river, a relentless stealing, wild enemy, that threatens as well as provides everything in the lives of the loggers.

Sometimes you just go back to a book and find out you had it all wrong, it wasn't time yet for you to get into it. This one is a masterpiece. Has anyone else read it, or changed their mind on a book like this?