(Note: You do not need to read the first book in the series as it really doesn't add a whole lot and isn't very good. I may even be willing to send you a copy if you can't get one any of these places. Find a copy in a library or through ILL or on Alibris or somewhere else online and read it. So if that topic interests you, read this book.
So I'll just tell you I love it because the main question I take from it is, "What, who, where, why, and how is/what's the nature/definition of god?" which is why I went to grad school to study religion. So anything I could write here would be insufficient.
Perhaps that's the reason: what I have to say would be a dissertation. I tried to use it as the foundation of my Master's thesis but my advisor said there was too much to say about it and to save it for my PhD.Īnd yet I can't review it. I gave a little seminar thing on it once. I've read it numerous times and own several copies although it's out of print. Not quite sure if I'm going to invest the time in reading the next one in the series The Lazarus Effect or not. I truly believe the book could have been trimmed by half and it would have been much more impactful.įor me, when the authors (and by the way, having read a lot of Herbert, I do have to credit Ransom for making the writing both less annoying-because it's not quite as confounding as Herbert alone-and more annoying-because of the poetry) tackle the scenes with Ship and examine what it means to be an all-knowing, all-seeing omnipotent God and what it means to be aware of that God and Its power, well, then the narrative just sings.īut all the stuff around it? Ugh. There is so much going on in this novel, not all of it necessary. There's times this novel absolutely captured and engrossed me, and there were times when my eyes slid over the words without retaining anything, because it was nse? Boring? Overly confusing? All of the above?
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