Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk
too much?
You could call it On and On Anon.
From page 43 in "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
Has anybody ever posted about that book here?
On 14/08/23 15:08, a425couple wrote:
Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk
too much?
You could call it On and On Anon.
From page 43 in "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
Has anybody ever posted about that book here?
You just did. I can't remember anyone else doing so.
What a powerful book, posing the Catholic puzzle of whether great art justifies great suffering and questioning whether the fall of every
sparrow is important or known. I loved it with that perverse pleasure a
fan of horror fiction has when terrified but unable to stop reading. Not
just terrified by the suffering but also outraged by the distortion of
the truth. Her writing made it all too real. A 5 star book.
I read it in 2018 and as I still remember it well, have not been brave
enough to open the continuation novel Children of God.
On 14/08/23 15:08, a425couple wrote:
Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk
too much?
You could call it On and On Anon.
From page 43 in "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
Has anybody ever posted about that book here?
You just did. I can't remember anyone else doing so.
What a powerful book, posing the Catholic puzzle of whether great art justifies great suffering and questioning whether the fall of every
sparrow is important or known. I loved it with that perverse pleasure a
fan of horror fiction has when terrified but unable to stop reading. Not
just terrified by the suffering but also outraged by the distortion of
the truth. Her writing made it all too real. A 5 star book.
I read it in 2018 and as I still remember it well, have not been brave
enough to open the continuation novel Children of God.
The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell....
Five stars for the story and five stars for the look at the Roman
Catholic faith from a convert to Judaism.
As I am still gobsmacked by this book, I plan to look at reviews,
perhaps on Goodreads unless someone has a better suggestion?
On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 5:25:14 AM UTC-6, Chris Buckley wrote:
For reviews, our resident reviewer (James) reviewed it here, with aInterestingly, it's here:
bit of discussion, so that review is probably on his web-site.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/core-problematic
as one of twenty books which should be on every true SF fan's
bookshelf, despite being problematic - along with Farnham's Freehold.
Given the description of the book in this thread, I wonder what he
could have found problematic about it, I'll have to read the review.
For reviews, our resident reviewer (James) reviewed it here, with a
bit of discussion, so that review is probably on his web-site.
On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 11:44:23 AM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 5:25:14 AM UTC-6, Chris Buckley wrote:
For reviews, our resident reviewer (James) reviewed it here, with aInterestingly, it's here:
bit of discussion, so that review is probably on his web-site.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/core-problematic
as one of twenty books which should be on every true SF fan's
bookshelf, despite being problematic - along with Farnham's Freehold.
Given the description of the book in this thread, I wonder what he
could have found problematic about it, I'll have to read the review.
The review is not at that URL, just the list of twenty works, so my
curiosity will not be satisfied. However, one other review I found -
as part of a list of five reviews, so I thought it might have been his when
I clicked on the result -
https://www.tor.com/2020/09/21/five-books-where-assuming-aliens-are-just-like-you-might-get-you-killed/
does make note of a point also raised in this thread: that the book is
so tragic, so sad, that it's hard to read. Perhaps *that's* the problem, of an entirely different kind than Farnham's Freehold's.
On 2023-08-14, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:snip
On 14/08/23 15:08, a425couple wrote:
Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who
talk too much?
You could call it On and On Anon.
From page 43 in "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
Has anybody ever posted about that book here?
You just did. I can't remember anyone else doing so.
Titus, you've previously posted about it in sf.written! And I have
posted several times throughout the years (eg 2017), including in
response to you. I append my comments from an earlier post.
Chris
On 14/08/23 23:25, Chris Buckley wrote:
On 2023-08-14, Titus G <no...@nowhere.com> wrote:snip
On 14/08/23 15:08, a425couple wrote:
Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who
talk too much?
You could call it On and On Anon.
From page 43 in "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
Has anybody ever posted about that book here?
You just did. I can't remember anyone else doing so.
Titus, you've previously posted about it in sf.written! And I have
posted several times throughout the years (eg 2017), including in
response to you. I append my comments from an earlier post.
Chris
Thank you. My apologies. Since 2014 I have kept a list of books read, a rating and sometimes a sentence long description. A quick look at 2018 titles and most of them are meaningless so I don't even remember most of what I have read without prompting let alone rasfw posts. I have no
trouble remembering reading The Sparrow but had even forgotten James' criticism of the science.
snipOn 14/08/23 15:08, a425couple wrote:
Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who
talk too much?
You could call it On and On Anon.
From page 43 in "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell
I never read THE SPARROW or its sequel, though a co-worker at the bookstore
I worked for was nuts for it. She was a whip-smart, very cute theology student
working on her MA at my alma mater: Marquette, where Jesuits dwell! l had been
an atheist for some time, so besides the bad juju that comes from chasing cute
humans one works with, I resolved to stay in the "friend zone." A pity that she
was so ghod-minded. She had an excellent personality. I was probably too old for her, anyway.
When she talked the book up to me, I mentioned that she might want to read Clarke's "The Star."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story)
See also: James Blish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Conscience
On 22/08/23 14:07, Kevrob wrote:
When she talked the book up to me, I mentioned that she might want to read >> Clarke's "The Star."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story)
I have forgotten that but have all those old HUGO winners so will dig it
out.
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