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Jrobertus
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Jul 19, 2007 08:00AM

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I totally agree about Gilead. Robinson's prose is elegant, to be sure, and at first I was just in awe of it. I liked the stories of the grandfather's generation and how the thinking across the lineage of pastors evolved (or perhaps just differed). But I just couldn't buy the secret that redeemed the narrator's enemy, his best friend's prodigal son. Also, given that he was the source of the narrator's state of weakness, it took too long for this character to even come up. I felt pretty ripped off, because reading to the end took a lot of focus.
