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  • A beautifully, beautifully written novel about intergenerational relationships & passing knowledge & experience from father to son. There are some lovely little stories in it, and the author does a good job of tying things together.

    But the constant religious philosophizing soon wore me down ( ... Continue

    A beautifully, beautifully written novel about intergenerational relationships & passing knowledge & experience from father to son. There are some lovely little stories in it, and the author does a good job of tying things together.

    But the constant religious philosophizing soon wore me down (the novel is about a family of ministers). It was a chore to finish, and about halfway through I took to skipping quickly over the more religious passages, of which there are a lot.

    If you aren't religious, give this book a pass no matter how well written it is.

    

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• ― Scott said on Jun 10, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Hill of Testimony/Mound of Witness

  • 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner.

    This is one of the book that needs to be read in great attention, and it often involves back and forth leafing to re-digest the words. I guess it is fair that it took Robinson 12 years to write this book, and it took me a few months to go through it.

    This is a ... Continue

    2005 Pulitzer Prize winner.

    This is one of the book that needs to be read in great attention, and it often involves back and forth leafing to re-digest the words. I guess it is fair that it took Robinson 12 years to write this book, and it took me a few months to go through it.

    This is a prose-like novel, which depicts a minister's life from a few generations' preacher family in a small town with declining in its population. Although with a high prestige from his job, John Ames could not escape from some personal prejudice, and those feelings seemingly ungodly towards his best friend's son and his god son.

    By way of writing to his young-aged son for expecting to be a posthumous letter, the protagonist wrote out his true feelings towards people close to him and to god. Even the progress seems random and slow, you would be touched by his true reflections to people, to things and to god. People surrounding him come from different believes and attitudes towards god, life and other people. He, as a minister, need to play a neutral role to bridge people and god's gap, while he had his own doubt in his mind.

    We don't see this kind of work everyday, so we don't have to finish it in haste. Following the pace of the author has given, it actually quite an enjoyable book to be slowly chewed on.

    

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  • 247 p. ; 22 cm. 1st Picador ed.Origin: Book Market and Mezzanine; Oakland, MD

    

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