I've recently started the final push to completing In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf. I've been reading the book on-and-off for about four years now. For some reason, I can only take it in small doses (it takes a while for me to fully digest it). I've really enjoyed it though, and I don't know what I'll do once it's no longer a constant in my life.
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski
Just finished Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World.
Now I shall begin The Casual Vacancy by Jenn Kamp Rowling.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Would you mind posting your thoughts when you finish? NO SPOILERS here, just a question: Did your copy include cover promo text that suggested the book would "make you believe in God"? When you finish, I'd be very interested in your thoughts on how that relates to the story.
I'm just over halfway. I'll lecha know.
Okay I finished the book about a week ago. It was a little hard for me to get through, To be honest.
The beginning author's not that you are talking about reminded me a bit of the Book of Mormon intro. I think it was added just to make the fictional tale more fantastic and realistic. An invitation for readers to suspend disbelief.
I am not sure how the story was supposed to make one believe in God. It sure didn't seem to be an argument for the existence of a god to me. I did enjoy how Pi gets involved in three major world religions.
It was a fantastic tale and humorous in parts.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)