Are our lives ordered by a higher being? Is there meaning to be found behind tragedy? The deaths of 5 people killed in the collapse of a bridge in Peru are explored by a monk as he seeks to answer these questions. Some beautiful writing and definitely worth reading. Basically an exploration of the ...
This is not a conclusive review. You can’t absorb a novel like The Bridge of San Luis Rey in one reading. It’s actually the shortest novels, like this and The Old Men and the Sea that require re-reading. Although it seems on the surface that huge novels like Infinite Jest or Gravity’s Rainbow show t...
Given the beauty of the language and the mere 140 pages of the story, there is no reason not to read The Bridge of San Luis Rey. I wasn't sure what to expect from Wilder, but I was impressed with the way he handled his sentences and the thoughts he put to page. There is beauty in this story, and phi...
As far as school books go, I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. As far as books I would read for pleasure goes, I probably wouldn't pick it up again. Quite frankly, I got the story and, upon some re-reading and reflection, it was decent enough and I found myself actually caring a bit about...
I am having a hard time reviewing the books I've been reading lately because my reaction to so many of them has been tepid. Very, very tepid. I can say nasty things if I hated something or rave if I loved it. But what does one say to "Oh that was just okay." The Bridge of San Luis Rey is one of ...
Not a novel, but a novella. It concerns a monk happens to see the collapse of a bridge and subsequent deaths of five people. He wonders why these people and what part of God's plan it was to choose these five. The book then goes on to examine three of those lives in detail.The book is well writte...
"Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God."You might think a book so focused on God and faith would...
Puzzles me that whilst each sub-story ended almost perfectly for me, I was not quite satisfied with the ending of the book as a whole. I am not sure if it is because Thorton ended it too abruptly or because he dwelt too long and tried to explain too much, resulting in an anti-climatic denouement. Th...
I live in Lima, Peru, and Wilder has captured its complexities perfectly - the age of which he speaks still extending its feelers into current Lima society. The novel is sharply observed, kind and forgiving, and often extremely funny.Just take this paragraph: "There was something in Lima that was wr...
[b:The Bridge of San Luis Rey|92508|The Bridge of San Luis Rey|Thornton Wilder|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348937011s/92508.jpg|3128581] was such a touching book. The book starts out with this "rope" bridge breaking and 5 people dropping to their deaths. This was witnessed by a priest named Br. ...
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