I finished this book a couple of weeks ago and LOVED it. The style is very interesting... it starts from both ends of a 50 year ish story and works towards the middle (climax) with alternating perspectives. From the description of the book, one might be tempted to think that it is a "Christian" book...
I wonder if this book reads differently if you believe in god. Then, I wonder if if it reads differently if you decide to accept the existence of god within the book. In any case, I can't do either, so I found this an almost vicious indictment of religion.
Mary Doria Russell just punched me in the face and it hurt so good. Reminded me of Orson Scott Card's Ender quartet, but more disturbing, more thought-provoking, more real, and the ending is, how shall I put this, less uplifting. Also, Russell has an elegance of language that somehow seems both al...
In 2019, a musical radio signal from a planet is picked up on Earth. In 2021, the Society of Jesus sends a group of seven to the planet Rakhet. In 2059, Father Emilio Sandoz returns to Earth. The sole survivor of the mission, he is physically and mentally broken. He is bitter, stubborn and feels...
It was well done, with beautiful prose. Interesting dual storyline style. I understand other reviewers' complaints about realism and incompatible biologies, microflora, etc., but I think the story is, at heart, a parable. There is sophisticated play with words throughout the book which adds to the...
This is one of those books that I HATED reading, yet, read the whole thing quickly because I HAD to know how it turned out. It's an incredible and disturbing story. I have since seen several people in coffee shops reading this book and had to go over and talk about it with them, because the story le...
There aren't many books that I'm an evangelist for. I'll tell you what I like, and I'll make suggestions and recommendations, but I don't often state outright that "You HAVE to read this." I will go out on that limb for The Sparrow, though. You have to read this.This is a very hard book to pigeonhol...
Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest, has returned from humanity' firstmission to contact aliens - the sole survivor. A broken man, bothphysically mutilated and psychologically tormented, he refuses tospeak about his experiences. But rumor spread years before his return,and he has become a pariah. Did he ...
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