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ddejong 's review for:
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
by David Brooks
Easily one of the very best books I’ve read this year. Sometimes books have a habit of finding you exactly when you need them and that was certainly the case here. I found Brooks by turns observant, challenging, pointed, and winsome- a true friend for the journey. I can see how his extensive quoting of others will annoy some people- it didn’t bother me at all. I not only respected him more for the vast breadth and depth of his reading and thinking, but also felt I was getting a strong “survey” of significant thinking on the topics he was writing about. His telling of his conversion experience (he now identifies as a “wandering Jew and very confused Christian”) was one of the most compelling I’ve read. It really did justice to the more protracted experiences some have that are deeply intellectual and advance in a messy, complex fashion that can never be neatly tied with a bow. His story is uniquely his own but it did bring to mind for me the experiences of C.S. Lewis and Eric Metaxas.