I'm a bit ambivalent about this book, it is quite a good read and I'm not sorry I did but it's a bit of a trudge through some parts, although those parts are actually plot-important. My favourite sequence is: "'Sometimes,' he told her... I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar f...
4.5**I still feel changed by this book; I think about it constantly and the characters who annoyed, bonded with and scared me. The story is almost secondary to the ideas expressed around faith and how our beliefs can either strengthen or destroy us.Eight people leave Earth to explore the newly disco...
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Sometimes you know from the moment you first pick it up that a book is special. It doesn't have to work to win you over. It doesn't have to prove itself. You're not going to have to set it aside after a hundred pages because you're just not getting into it or something about it bothers you or it'...
Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" is an award winning book, a story of first contact. It is told in two intermingled narratives – one leading up to the contact and one after the fact, a questioning of the sole survivor. While portions were though provoking, I find this book less than it should be.I...
This One Will Stay with YouCautionary tale about first contact and The Law of Unintended Consequences, resulting in betrayal, loss, and shattered faith in God. I'm not sure I need to read it again, but I'm very glad I did. Powerful stuff.
I'm not sure I can adequately express how profoundly this novel affected me. I certainly wasn't expecting such a personal examination of faith. I can't really find the words to explain the physical and emotional reaction the story evoked for me, but I believe that for anyone who has ever lived a li...
Really loved this. The worlds she builds are just perfectly balanced between slightly familiar and slightly foreign. The anthropology and history of the alien planet are described enough for the thing to cohere, but not in such intricate detail that the reader gets bored and wanders off. The book is...
A very gripping, emotional story of a Jesuit priest who makes first contact on an alien planet lured there by beautiful music over heard by radio transmissions from space. I found the writing to be superb and I totally loved the characters but a few things bothered me first of all the idea of space ...
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