tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post113598315011504009..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: Not what you want to hearBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1136330015769305202006-01-03T18:13:00.000-05:002006-01-03T18:13:00.000-05:00Hi Simon. All your comments are far too coherent (...Hi Simon. All your comments are far <I>too</I> coherent (which is why sometimes I'm not clever enough to reply!). <BR/><BR/>Yes, it's a reasonably good book. It's basically just a love story, with underlying themes of monasticism and the loss of faith. There are some really good moments and some good characters, but on the whole I found the love story a little too sentimental. <BR/><BR/>Still, some of the descriptions of God are really worth thinking about. A particularly vivid and disturbing one is (p. 172): "God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tyre in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway overpass and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth. God is dying children."Ben Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1136208307005593762006-01-02T08:25:00.000-05:002006-01-02T08:25:00.000-05:00That is a great quote! Is the book like that? One ...That is a great quote! Is the book like that? One Amazon review calls it a "highly polished narrative", that makes me a little wary. <BR/><BR/>It does sound like a book for grown-ups, in any case... no car chase scenes or gangsters with guns or dangerous secretive blondes, huh? <BR/><BR/>Still, that is a great quote.<BR/><BR/>(I wrote a coherent comment, finally. Didn't I? Proud!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-1136057718096521372005-12-31T14:35:00.000-05:002005-12-31T14:35:00.000-05:00Sounds like an intersting read...I like that first...Sounds like an intersting read...I like that first quote...good stuff:)Neumiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02629269085641731118noreply@blogger.com