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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
This book was enjoyable but also a bit chaotic... a little too chaotic
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The novel could have been significantly shorter without sacrificing any crucial plot points.
I liked this book. How he got his father off his back was awesome.
I enjoyed this, and it made me sniffle a bit. I do feel as though the ending was rushed. I also wish the author explored more of the challenges of being queer in a religious environment.
This book simply didn't work for me. It's framed as a nearly thirty-year-old (who considers that close to 42, somehow) gay dad approaching the site of his Damascene conversion, but is actually told as a very straightforward coming of age story with occasionally inserted scenes from his college years.
The story of an adult coming to terms with his past would have been a much better way to tell this story. It doesn't have much at all to say about the whole Burpo and Malarkey industrial complex, and it features a pastiche of all of the most annoying professional atheists of the last fifteen years. We see who the characters were but only glimpse sketches of what they have become, and frankly their journey wasn't that interesting.
And Schlich has never played a video game in his life. (Hoping this sentence isn't actionable).
The story of an adult coming to terms with his past would have been a much better way to tell this story. It doesn't have much at all to say about the whole Burpo and Malarkey industrial complex, and it features a pastiche of all of the most annoying professional atheists of the last fifteen years. We see who the characters were but only glimpse sketches of what they have become, and frankly their journey wasn't that interesting.
And Schlich has never played a video game in his life. (Hoping this sentence isn't actionable).
it was like a mirror reflecting my own feelings about having grown up with religion and then leaving it
“i felt empty, apart from it all. outside, looking in.”
i almost word for word have this written down in one of my journals somewhere
“i felt empty, apart from it all. outside, looking in.”
i almost word for word have this written down in one of my journals somewhere
A really touching read. I was surprised by how memoir-esque it felt- the narrative voice was so honest and the events felt so realistic that there were moments where it felt too true to just be a novel. I had some minor issues with the narrative structure and pacing, but overall I really enjoyed this.