kcelena 's review for:

Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery

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Every word of this book rang with dazzling intelligence. This is the second of Ortberg's books I've read, and it cemented my belief that he is a brilliant writer. I struggled with this book though because the majority of the essays were heavy with cultural and religious references that I had little, if any, knowledge of, and so I couldn't not relate in anyway to the scenes, stories, actors he was discussing. The essays I liked, I LOVED. But many of them bored me. Not giving this book a starred rating because my emotional reaction to it had everything to do with me and nothing to do with the quality of this book. As I said at the top, it's so smart and if I was a smarter person I probably would have loved the entire thing.