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A review by debshelf
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
3.0
I'm sorry, did you just put yourself into your own effing book!?! First all the interminable alliterations and assonance, now this. I just don't think I can forgive you these things, Norman Lebrecht.
The one part of this novel I enjoyed was the section where David tells Martin about the years during his disappearance. Judaism is the most fascinating religion/form of spirituality to me, mostly because of its insistence on asking questions as a way of seeking the truth. I feel that Christianity has lost the questing nature of discover and has become ever more ridged in its attempts to explain the unexplainable. I liked how Lebrecht incorporated aspects of Judaic study that are mostly unknown to me into his novel.
(...but I still don't forgive him for the above-mentioned atrocities.)
The one part of this novel I enjoyed was the section where David tells Martin about the years during his disappearance. Judaism is the most fascinating religion/form of spirituality to me, mostly because of its insistence on asking questions as a way of seeking the truth. I feel that Christianity has lost the questing nature of discover and has become ever more ridged in its attempts to explain the unexplainable. I liked how Lebrecht incorporated aspects of Judaic study that are mostly unknown to me into his novel.
(...but I still don't forgive him for the above-mentioned atrocities.)