I seem to have inadvertently found myself on a theological reading streak. Like The Alchemist, this book was recommended to me by a friend (although more enthusiastically), and also like The Alchemist, I picked it up for reasons that ended up having nothing to do with the book. I thought The Chose...
THE CHOSEN, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Chiam Potok Hardcover, 416 pages Published November 1st 2016 by Simon & Schuster (first published 1967) ISBN13: 9781501142475 I have liked everything that I have read so far of Chaim Potok. The Chosen was the first I read, and I definitely enjoyed it again. Wha...
I picked this book up at a library book fair. It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother...
Reread The Chosen, after a first read 27 years ago. It was good again, but not great. A strangely paced work. I can't remember such a lack of female characters in a long time. But the insight into the lives of Reuven and Danny makes it work.
I had to read this for my English class, so I was not excited about reading it in the first place, but it was not horrible. It was pretty easy to read and understand and it has some important messages, but it was just kind of boring and uninteresting to me.
I had to read this book for school and after reading a lot of books for school that I did not like, I didn't have high expectations for this one. It started off good, but I didn't have the urge to keep reading so it sat around for a while. I decided to read it all one day and well, it was the best b...
Chaim Potok is a master at creating characters that you genuinely care about, and then putting them in positions where the one thing that they feel they must do is the one thing that will hurt them the most, and often, the one thing that will separate them forever from their families and heritage. I...
This was recommended by a friend - she does like intense books. What I liked about it was the peek into the world of orthodox Jews in the 1940s through the story of friendship between two boys and the story of their relationships with their fathers. It was also a history lesson about the birth of ...
This is my favorite of Potok's novels, though Davita's Harp would be a close second.Though it's a full-length novel, this book has some qualities of a short story form, which give it its unique tone and slightly spartan storytelling style. The book tells the story of two Jewish boys growing up in Br...
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