I wasn't sure if I would like this book. It moves slowly, and has a lot of Protestant religious searching to it, which is not something, at this point in my life, that I necessarily am inclined to steep myself in. But in the end, it seemed a story of family and love and redemption, and I did like it...
Gilead is the narrative of a septuagenarian preacher living in a small town in Kansas in the year 1956, recording his experiences for his young son to read in later life. He recalls his own father, a preacher, and his grandfather, also a preacher though in a very different mould. He describes the ye...
I believe the audio of this book is read by Santa Claus, so that is nice. Not nice enough for me to finish it, though. I tried the printed copy and the audio, and while I made it slightly farther in the audio, I just can’t do it. I think listening to this in the car creates a severe hazard becaus...
Faith gets such a bad rap these days. The most egregiously distorted personifications of it stand as paragons: Sarah Palin's hypocritical, dangerous and politicized evangelism; Pat Robertson's venomous, hateful, racist diatribes. Et cetera.At the foundation of these demonstrations of faith is a la...
Being a devout agnostic verging on atheism, I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. That's because it's told in the voice of an aging Christian preacher in the Iowa of the 1950s. But there were several things that appealed to me: for one thing, the narrator, John Ames, is almost startli...
As much as I liked this novel, something keeps tugging at me, suggesting it's Cormac McCarthy's The Road after being subjected to the Guideposts magazine treatment.
H drive: non essential folder.This is one long ramble written in sermon form by a pastor who is dying. It is full-time belly button watching coupled with thought dissection. Not for me; not my cup of tea.
This book makes me feel the same way as watching Battlestar Galactica does, or reading Speaker for the Dead, except it does it in a kinder, more gentle, and infinitely more patient way. I don't really know if I can give it any higher praise than that. I'm just sorry it took me so long to read.
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