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rballenger's review
1.0
Type of read: Weekend/After Work Read.
What made me pick it up: I saw this one either on a Goodreads list or suggested to me through my library app and both the title and the description stuck out to me.
Overall rating: Getting the painful part out of the way...this is my first DNF of the year.
There is so much to unpack in this one. Some of the writing was hard to read, and I don't mean contextually, but grammatically and style-wise...it was just...thick? Honestly, it took me a very long time and many renewals to even get to the point where I knew it had to be a DNF. I wouldn't even call it leisure reading, because not only is it a difficult topic, it's almost textbook-like in the way the narrative flows (or rather doesn't flow). I feel like Nockels Wilson tried to create a book and then fell into pulling from personal writings and forgot who their audience was or even that they had an audience.
'The Book of Timothy' was not the book for me.
What made me pick it up: I saw this one either on a Goodreads list or suggested to me through my library app and both the title and the description stuck out to me.
Overall rating: Getting the painful part out of the way...this is my first DNF of the year.
There is so much to unpack in this one. Some of the writing was hard to read, and I don't mean contextually, but grammatically and style-wise...it was just...thick? Honestly, it took me a very long time and many renewals to even get to the point where I knew it had to be a DNF. I wouldn't even call it leisure reading, because not only is it a difficult topic, it's almost textbook-like in the way the narrative flows (or rather doesn't flow). I feel like Nockels Wilson tried to create a book and then fell into pulling from personal writings and forgot who their audience was or even that they had an audience.
'The Book of Timothy' was not the book for me.
akbelcher's review
2.0
Despite the heavy topic I found the book rather boring due to the writer’s style.
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