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A review by bookwormmichelle
Project Conversion: One Man, 12 Faiths, One Year by Andrew Bowen
3.0
I really liked SO MUCH of this book. I really believe the world would be a much better place if we understood each other's religions much better, and this book is GREAT for that! I learned a LOT reading this story of a man who chooses a different "religion" each month of a year; he really learns all he can, lives it as honestly as he can and tries to see the world through each religion's eyes. LOVED that!
What I wasn't so crazy about---over-the-top emotiveness. Not exactly an even-keel sort of guy, the author has what he feels to be a desperately anguishing past, and EVERY FEW PAGES of this book, some event in his life "devastates" him, "turns his world upside down", etc. What sort of things? Um, a car running out of gas. A dog getting sick. Nasty comments on a blog. Weird visions he says he sees sitting on a river bank. Where his childhood imaginary friend tells him he's going to die. Oh, and one month he decides his "spirit animal" is a giant multicolored chicken. Then he invents his own religion he calls The Fluid Life. Then he converts to Catholicism. This part of the book exhausted me.
What I wasn't so crazy about---over-the-top emotiveness. Not exactly an even-keel sort of guy, the author has what he feels to be a desperately anguishing past, and EVERY FEW PAGES of this book, some event in his life "devastates" him, "turns his world upside down", etc. What sort of things? Um, a car running out of gas. A dog getting sick. Nasty comments on a blog. Weird visions he says he sees sitting on a river bank. Where his childhood imaginary friend tells him he's going to die. Oh, and one month he decides his "spirit animal" is a giant multicolored chicken. Then he invents his own religion he calls The Fluid Life. Then he converts to Catholicism. This part of the book exhausted me.