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A review by late_stranger
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
5.0
I was assigned this book for class, but failed to get past the first two chapters due to time constraints that week. However, they struck me so much that I added the book to goodreads and promised myself I'd return to it after the semester ended. I am so, so glad I did.
The writing of this novel is intensely moving, and even from a complete outsider standpoint to Catholicism and Catholic theology, it was incredibly compelling. So many episodes physically hurt me because I could feel along with the characters. I really appreciated how Greene did not write a saint; that the whiskey priest was genuinely bad despite and because of his constantly saying so. I ended up reading the entire book in less than 24 hours because it was so compelling. It is a small masterpiece.
The writing of this novel is intensely moving, and even from a complete outsider standpoint to Catholicism and Catholic theology, it was incredibly compelling. So many episodes physically hurt me because I could feel along with the characters. I really appreciated how Greene did not write a saint; that the whiskey priest was genuinely bad despite and because of his constantly saying so. I ended up reading the entire book in less than 24 hours because it was so compelling. It is a small masterpiece.