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A review by bookysue
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
3.0
The first hundred and some pages were slow and empty of detailed description or any real plot, and I barely made it through. That whole portion of the book could be summed up easily by just saying "John Brown prayed a lot." It felt like every other paragraph was another reminder that he prayed a lot and took a long time for each prayer.
But at some the story finally started holding my interest. And it got pretty good after that. It was interesting to read the wikipedia article on the Harpers Ferry raid afterward, to see how much of it matched up with the book. And Onion's story offered up some reasonable explanations for why certain people might have done what they did, filling in some of the gaps in the history books.
But at some the story finally started holding my interest. And it got pretty good after that. It was interesting to read the wikipedia article on the Harpers Ferry raid afterward, to see how much of it matched up with the book. And Onion's story offered up some reasonable explanations for why certain people might have done what they did, filling in some of the gaps in the history books.