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6.0 stars. This book was beautifully written and the best way I can think to describe it is emotionally devastating (but in a good way). Nominally, it is a book about "first contact" with an alien race but the heart of the story is the age old question, "How can someone believe in a just, loving God when such horrible things happen to good people?"
It has been over a year since I have read this book (in fact I just finished the sequel, Children of God), and I can still remember feeling blown awa ...more
It has been over a year since I have read this book (in fact I just finished the sequel, Children of God), and I can still remember feeling blown awa ...more
It's a bit early in the year for my first five, but this combination of science fiction and meditation on religion is glorious and heartrending and made me very grateful that the baby is learning to take longer naps these days. I loved it. I loved everyone in it, I loved the way the book handled religion and God and majesty and despair and...seriously. So good.
Also, there were Jews! Which is admittedly unexpected in a book mostly about Jesuits, but it works and we are not stereotypes, but people ...more
Also, there were Jews! Which is admittedly unexpected in a book mostly about Jesuits, but it works and we are not stereotypes, but people ...more
A good read, although one part, which I won't divulge, was rather hard to believe. But all in all, I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it.
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