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A review by uncle_remus
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Did not finish book.
1.0
This reads not quite like Young adult, but not quite children's either. It's a quest from City of Destruction to City of Zion, where every vice, virtue, emotion is personified... ("and here they met Prudence, having just escaped Worldly Traveler in the Valley of Humility"). All, tied in with quotes and rephrases from the Bible. The main protagonist is Christian (but not as a name like Christopher, but as in Christian versus Jew ...). Everything is a moral choice between Black and White (noticed I capitalized them so you would be Confused?) with every option so clearly apparently obvious as to how they wanted the Character to respond... so childish and blatant. It insulted my intelligence to read.
I abandoned this effort because I could not choke down another word. I could only gag down 78 (of 338) pages, or 23%.
No stars. I realize that this was a historically important book, but I think that was only because it brainwashed generations and generations of simpletons.
I abandoned this effort because I could not choke down another word. I could only gag down 78 (of 338) pages, or 23%.
No stars. I realize that this was a historically important book, but I think that was only because it brainwashed generations and generations of simpletons.