The stranger god of war 4
He is a man who lives entirely in the present, how terribly Buddhist of him – although, really there doesn’t seem to be all that much to him. It didn’t really get off to the raciest of starts and the character's voice – it is told in first person – was a bit dull. At first I didn’t think I was going to enjoy it. A case where someone does not react in a way that is considered to be ‘socially appropriate’ and is therefore condemned.īut after 30 years of avoiding reading this book I have finally relented and read it. Later I was told that this book was a story about something much like the Azaria Chamberlain case. In high school friends (one of them even became my ex-wife) told me it was a great book about a man condemned to die because he was an outsider. I have done that because for the last thirty years I have known exactly what this book is about and there just didn’t seem any point in reading it. Now, that is what is called a segue, from the Italian ‘seguire’ – to follow.įor the last thirty years I have studiously avoided reading this book. Then I look back and it turns out that that I’ve given four stars to Of Human Bondage and honestly, how could I possibly have thought it was a good idea to give that book less than five stars? It is the absurdity of human conventions that has us doing such things.
I give stars to books and then I think, ‘god, you give five stars to everything, people will think you are terribly undiscriminating’ – so then I give four stars or even three stars to some books. Then I look back and it turns out that that I’ve given four stars to Of Human Bondage and honestly, how could I possibly have thought it was a good idea to give that book less than five stars? It is the absurdity of human conventions that has us doing s I don’t know what to do with these stars anymore.
I don’t know what to do with these stars anymore.