Ricky
One thing I began to contemplate while reading this mess of a book is the way the younger people today are obsessed with assigning blame and categorizing people as good or bad, villain or victim, virtuous or culpable. I just wonder if they'll ever discover Solzhenitsyn's admonishment that the line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every person. I wish these people would discover Buddhism but I'm sure they'd find a way to completely distort that as well into yet another cult of the fragile ego, which is at the end of the day the primary thing that seems to motivate world events anymore.
I've had really mixed experiences with this author to the point where I wonder sometimes if she has co-authors or something. I hated the writing here. I found it annoying and tiresome and the level of anachronism in the thoughts and speech of the characters made this book read like nonsense to me. The characters never came alive for me and their words and actions felt silly. It's too bad, because I when I picked up the paperback in the library and read the first couple of pages, I thought it seemed like it could be good.
One thing I began to contemplate while reading this mess of a book is the way the younger people today are obsessed with assigning blame and categorizing people as good or bad, villain or victim, virtuous or culpable. I just wonder if they'll ever discover Solzhenitsyn's admonishment that the line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every person. I wish these people would discover Buddhism but I'm sure they'd find a way to completely distort that as well into yet another cult of the fragile ego, which is at the end of the day the primary thing that seems to motivate world events anymore.
I've had really mixed experiences with this author to the point where I wonder sometimes if she has co-authors or something. I hated the writing here. I found it annoying and tiresome and the level of anachronism in the thoughts and speech of the characters made this book read like nonsense to me. The characters never came alive for me and their words and actions felt silly. It's too bad, because I when I picked up the paperback in the library and read the first couple of pages, I thought it seemed like it could be good.