Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Do you know that? A book is excellently written, but the story is frightening, it pushes you off and in the end you don’t know, if you should judge the book by the literary value or by the degree of reading pleasure, somehow both are diametrically opposed. The book is very well written and the structure, almost like a liturgy: entry in the church, reading, singing, prayers, sin confession, preaching. I liked that. Nevertheless, these "I will beat the sin out of you" passages were just awful in the last third of the book. I got to know such fanatics in my youth, in the CE and later in my family in law. So this book was too personal for me. I liked best the first third with John as protagonist, his observations in the family and in the city as well as his first impressions in the church. It started to change with the Prayers, and I keep wondering why I react so negatively to the three life stories and then this violent father-son relationship. The more fictional the story, the more I can build a distance to the events and the people. Here the autobiographical character has a disturbing effect on me. Finally I can’t say, that I liked the book, although the writing style is fascinating.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Do you know that? A book is excellently written, but the story is frightening, it pushes you off and in the end you don’t know, if you should judge the book by the literary value or by the degree of reading pleasure, somehow both are diametrically opposed. The book is very well written and the structure, almost like a liturgy: entry in the church, reading, singing, prayers, sin confession, preaching. I liked that. Nevertheless, these "I will beat the sin out of you" passages were just awful in the last third of the book. I got to know such fanatics in my youth, in the CE and later in my family in law. So this book was too personal for me. I liked best the first third with John as protagonist, his observations in the family and in the city as well as his first impressions in the church. It started to change with the Prayers, and I keep wondering why I react so negatively to the three life stories and then this violent father-son relationship. The more fictional the story, the more I can build a distance to the events and the people. Here the autobiographical character has a disturbing effect on me. Finally I can’t say, that I liked the book, although the writing style is fascinating.