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A review by pizzamyheart
The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale about That Which Can Never Die by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
2.0
This book (while extremely short) was a DNF (did not finish).
It has a great message to it, especially tying in the story of the author's WWII horrors with stories of gardening. I actually wanted to like it, and skimmed for the parts about her uncle. Those were fascinating. But the writing was horrible.... Have you ever heard a hippie speak? That traditional "love the trees, god is good. I don't like complete sentences but live in another world cause i'm high outta my mind". Well that's the voice that tells this story. Again, the story itself was good and very interesting, but the hippie speak killed it for me.
It has a great message to it, especially tying in the story of the author's WWII horrors with stories of gardening. I actually wanted to like it, and skimmed for the parts about her uncle. Those were fascinating. But the writing was horrible.... Have you ever heard a hippie speak? That traditional "love the trees, god is good. I don't like complete sentences but live in another world cause i'm high outta my mind". Well that's the voice that tells this story. Again, the story itself was good and very interesting, but the hippie speak killed it for me.