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jmack491 's review for:
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
by Joy Williams
"One should not define God in human language nor anthropomorphize that which is ineffable and indescribable. We can only know what God is not, not what God is. We can never speak about God rationally as we speak about ordinary things, but that does not mean we should give up thinking about God. We must push our minds to the limits of what we could know, descending ever deeper into the darkness of unknowing."
This is the second time in the past couple of months that I have found a book on my bookshelf without being sure of how it came into my possession. I thoroughly enjoyed the first discovery; this one, not so much.
The above quote pretty much encapsulates what this book of stories is about -- not really God, but instead what God is not. Many of these stories, in fact, are pretty unsettling. And weird. Very weird. As I look now at the cover -- four dogs on a small boat in the middle of a tumultuous sea -- I feel like I should have known that I would not find uplifting tales of survival and miracles within.
Still. Williams writes well. At least there's that.
This is the second time in the past couple of months that I have found a book on my bookshelf without being sure of how it came into my possession. I thoroughly enjoyed the first discovery; this one, not so much.
The above quote pretty much encapsulates what this book of stories is about -- not really God, but instead what God is not. Many of these stories, in fact, are pretty unsettling. And weird. Very weird. As I look now at the cover -- four dogs on a small boat in the middle of a tumultuous sea -- I feel like I should have known that I would not find uplifting tales of survival and miracles within.
Still. Williams writes well. At least there's that.